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The Flying reel
By Emile Benoit
There are 6 recordings of this tune.
The Flying has been added to 13 tunebooks.
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The Flying
Emile Benoit made up this reel while fiddling in an airplane. It’s got that strange (to Irish sensibilities, anyway) AAABB structure that a number of his reels have.
And here’s the cast of Emile’s Dream (Phil Churchill, Daniel Payne, and Kelly Russell) playing the tune (and a number of others, but Flying Reel is first) as they fly to Labrador: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XD5lWhBtTkM
The only way to fly
I wish all flights were like that.
Re: The Flying
Played by Touchstone in “The New Land ” album.
Re: The Flying
The composer, Emile Benoit, begins playing it ~8mins into this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5b_Fy3iM4o
Re: The Flying
Emile Benoît is from Newfoundland (Terre Neuve) as it transpires. Which explains the odd if not crooked structure of this reel …we’re not far from Quebec here.