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The Flood On The Holm reel

There are 9 recordings of this tune.

The Flood On The Holm has been added to 11 tunebooks.

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One setting

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X: 1
T: The Flood On The Holm
R: reel
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
K: Dmaj
AG|:FDDF AD (3FGA |dAFd BGEG|FDDF AD (3FGA |dAGE FDDd|
ADDF ADFA |dAFd BGEF |DFEG FAGB |AFEG FDDc ||
d2 AG FdAF |GBed cgfe |dAAG FAde |(3fgf ec d2 (3gfe|
d2 AG FdAF |GBed cgfe |dBcA BdAF |GBAG FDDg ||
faaf dAFA |GBed ceag|(3fgf af dAFA |GBec dDDg|
faaf dAFA |GBed ceag|fdge afbg |fdec dgfe||
d2 AG FdAF|GBed cgfe |dAAG FAde |(3fgf ec d2 (3gfe|
d2 AG FdAF|GBed cgfe |dBcA BdAF |GBAG FDDG ||
# Added by JACKB .

Eight comments

The Flood On The Holm

This reel seems to have vanished from this site. Lots of tunes with same name but couldn’t find this one.

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Re: The Flood On The Holm

Feckin grand tune. Not for noobs. Robbie Hanna adapted it beautifully to the Uillean pipes years ago so I guess you might say it’s his party piece, or one of them for certain…

Re: The Flood On The Holm

The reason the tune disappeared is because it is just a mixture of James Scott’s Skinner’s tunes mashed together by Johnny Doherty. The parts from different tunes have been joined together

Re: The Flood On The Holm

Great. Which James Scott Skinner tunes? I don’t play fiddle and while I respect the Scottish fiddling tradition, I don’t study it and would never have known that.

Re: The Flood On The Holm

See "The Auld Wheel" on this site

Re: The Flood On The Holm

Thanks. They’re quite similar, almost identical. I can see how Doherty probably just forgot (or never learned) the proper name of the original Skinner composition and developed his own setting.

Re: The Flood On The Holm

I actually wouldn’t have recognised it. Whatever, I think the Irish take is much nicer.

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