Martin Wynne’s reel

This is Martin Wynne’s third composition. This version comes from Dublin University’s TradSoc Music Archive. The Irish band Dervish do a nice setting on their “Midsummer’s Night” cd (it’s the first tune in the Midsummer’s Night set of reels that kicks off the album).

Is there another Martin Wnne’s and it starts up really high and it’s in a kind of minor key?

Here’s the ABCs for the way I remember hearing it on the 1990 Gort session tape with Kevin Crawford and Tony Linanne:

X:1
T:Martin Wynne’s No 3
S:Gort session tape (1990) w/ Kevin Crawford and Tony Linanne
M:4/4
L:1/8
R:reel
K:Gmaj
|: A/B/c |: dged B2Ac | BGEG FA~A2 | BG B/c/d cdeg | fgaf gfeB |!
dged B2Ac | BGEG FA~A2 | BG B/c/d cdeg |1 fgaf ~g3B:|2 fgaf ~g3f||!
g3a gfeB | dged BG A/B/c | dggf gfeB | dega bggf | g2af gfeB |!
dged BG A/B/c |dggf gfeg |1 fgaf ~g3f:|2 fgaf g2||!

What I hear the flute doing on the Gort tape goes more like this in the first part:
dged ~B3B|BGDG EA~A2|BGDG cdeg|fgaf gfeg|

They play it this way also on Maiden Voyage, in the same set again (starting with the Aughacashel, which the track notes call Sean Ryan’s there).

Will’s last transcription rings a bell with me.

Here’s another take on it, influenced by the way Brian Conway and Tony DeMarco play it (I wouldn’t exactly call it a straight transcription, but it’s how I would play it on banjo).

X: 1
T: Martin Wynne’s #3
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Gmaj
|: Bc | dged B2Ac | BGdG EAAc | BGdB cdef | g2ga gfed |
dged B2Ac | BGdG EAAc | BGdB cdef | gbaf g2 :|
|:ba | g2ga gfed | dged BGBc | dgg/g/g gfed| dega bgaf |
gbaf gfed | dged BGBc | dgg/g/g gfed | dfaf g2:|

https://thesession.org/tunes/461

From a recording of Martin himself, playing in duet with Paddy Reynolds.

Just thinking out loud about something so I don’t forget it in future - don’t mind me…
T: 3/4
d>g e3 d|B>d A3 d|B>G A3 G|E>A A3A…

From the Dervish album ‘Midsummer’s Night’, from the track by the same name.