The Raivlin reel

Barbara McOwen, Scottish Fiddler
http://www.mcowen.net/
http://www.mcowen.net/bmco/index.htm
Tunes ~
http://www.mcowen.net/bmco/tunes.htm

And other dots for it ~
“The Raivlin Reel” ~ by Barbara McOwen, for Lance Ramshaw, Nov. 1993
http://www.mcowen.net/bmco/tunes/RaivlinReel.pdf

# Posted on October 17th 2009 by ceolachan
https://thesession.org/discussions/22899

This was recommended in this previous discussion, and I have been doing as people suggested, over time. I’ve given some of the ways it has taken me in the transcription here, and you have her own dots to compare with some of the options I’ve given. For example, places for long notes where rolls or other options might be taken, a few examples ~

A-part
Bars 1-2 & 5-6 ~ D3 G FEDA | GFED d3 c | ~
B-part
Bars 1-2 ~ Ad d2 Bd d2 | cdef g3 f | ~

In Barbara’s own words ~

"http://www.mcowen.net/bmco/tunes/RaivlinReel.pdf
Note: This “tangled reel” is specially written for Lance Ramshaw, aritificial intelligence wizard, dance teacher, minister, musician and poet. Instead of waiting around at a ham session for the piano to be free, he decided to learn the fiddle, so he could play all the time. And he is devouring tunes! “Raivlin” is Scots for “a tangled thread,” or, “used of rhyme: loose odds and ends” and at his request it is intended to be a fun tune for him to play."

I hope she won’t mind it finding air here, but know that if she does, Jeremy will gladly remove it for her.

Here are Barbara McOwen’s dots as she posted them. Fun, easy reel to play fast.

An arrangement for fiddle ensemble (2 fiddle lines, cello, and chords) is available in Weaver MacFarlane’s Choon Book, a free download from cracklingsmarts.com.

Audio file of this arrangement is available on Soundcloud (just search for Weaver MacFarlane).