Martin Wynne’s reel

By Martin Wynne

Also known as Martin Wynne’s #1, Martin Wynne’s No 1, Martin Wynne’s No. 1, Martin Wynne’s No.1.

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Martin Wynne’s has been added to 93 tune sets.

Martin Wynne’s has been added to 517 tunebooks.

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Eleven comments

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.

Martin Wynne’s No. 1

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

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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.

The Bothy Band recording of this tune live is AMAZING

Date?

JSC, where does Varlet give that date?

Martin Wynne’s, X:5

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.