Martin Wynne’s reel

I transcribed this out a la new O’Neill’s style writing out the short & long rolls. So it may be busy to the eye but all in all it’s a pretty straight forward tune that sounds nice but not too flashy either.

This is generally known as Martin Wynne’s No. 1. Philippe Varlet says it was composed about 1935.

Here’s a simpler setting of the tune I learned from a fiddler last summer:

K: Dmaj
AF~F2 GE~E2|F2AF EFDB,|A,B,DE ~F3B|ABde fedB|
AF~F2 GE~E2|F2AF EFDB,|A,B,DE ~F3B|1 ABde fddB:|2 ABde fdd2||
f2af gfeg|fedf edBc|dBAF DEFB|ABde fe~e2|
f2af gfeg|fedf edBc|dBAF D3B|1 ABde fdd2:|2 ABde fddB|

I think this is a very clever composition, though not best for flute or whistle.

Martin Wynne playing Martin Wynne No.1: http://www.irishfiddle.com/sound/wynne.mp3

The Bothy Band recording of this tune live is AMAZING

JSC, where does Varlet give that date?

@1:07

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyUccCIj7kI

play video

https://youtu.be/NePj0EIRpTY

play video

Don’t expect to hear the present tune in the Martin Wynne’s clip just above but rather Lady on the Island.
https://thesession.org/tunes/938

Bothy Band version

Spending a lot of time with this Johnny Cronin and Joe Burke record. Cronin plays this one solo, with some significant note order variations in what feels like his ‘base version’ of the tune compared to the other settings here so far.