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Violet Tulloch reel

By Tom Anderson

Also known as Violet Tulloch’s.

There are 4 recordings of this tune.

Violet Tulloch has been added to 3 tunebooks.

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One setting

1
X: 1
T: Violet Tulloch
R: reel
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
K: Gmin
B2Bc BFDF|B2Bc BFDF|B2Bc defd|cBAG F2GA|
BABc dBFD|EGcd e2dc|dFBd cFAc|1 B2BA Bddc:|2 B2BA B3f||
|:bBdf gAce|d2B2 B3f|acfa gc=eg|f2F2 F2FE|
(3DBf(3fBD (3EBg(3gBE|=efga b2fd|_edcB Afec|1 d2 B2 B3f:|2 d2 B2 Bddc||
# Added by ans76 .

Five comments

Violet Tulloch

This is a Shetland tune I was taught by Ross Couper.
It is on the Blazin’ Fiddle album The Key, on the track Harris Dance.
I’m not sure who wrote the tune.
Viollet Tulloch is an amazing piano player from Shetland.

The tune is in Bflat major but that didn’t seem to be an option.

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Re: Violet Tulloch

It was titled Violet Tulloch’s Hornpipe, written by Tom Anderson.

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Re: Violet Tulloch

Never to be confused with this one, also written in honour of Violet Tulloch, beautiful slow air by Phil Cunningham: more credits to Violet on the thread.
https://thesession.org/tunes/13767

Re: Violet Tulloch

Very good reel indeed, thanks.
It has been published in “Ringing Strings” (Shetland Times, 2004), p. 51, where this tune is dated 1972.
By the way, another great tune was written in honour of Violet Tulloch : “Violet”, composed by Ronald Jamieson. It is a beautiful slow air published in J. Murray Neil, The Scots Fiddle, vol. 3, Glasgow, 2004, p. 218. ; as there is a copyright, here are only the first 4 bars :
M: 4/4
K: Fmaj
AB|c3 B A2G2|F2 a2 a2 g2|f2 f2 e2 d2|c3

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Re: Violet Tulloch

I do mean “Very good --hornpipe-- indeed, thanks”.

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