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The Pining Maid reel

There is 1 recording of this tune.

The Pining Maid has been added to 2 tune sets.

The Pining Maid has been added to 20 tunebooks.

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Three settings

1
X: 1
T: The Pining Maid
R: reel
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
K: Bmin
|:FBBF B2Bc|dBeB dBAF|Beed e2ef|gefd edBA|
FBBF B2Be|gefd edBA|BeeB dBAG|AFdF E4:|
|:~g3e fedB|d2de dB~B2|~g3e fedA|Beed efga|
bg~g2 af~f2|gefd edBA|BeeB dBAG|AFdF E4:|
2
X: 2
T: The Pining Maid
R: reel
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
K: Ddor
EAAA A3B|cAdA cAGE|Addd d3e|fdec dcAG|
EAAA A3d|fdec dcAG|AddA cAGF|GEcE D2D2||
f2 fd edcA|c2 cd cA A2|f2 fd edcA|Addc defg|
af Tf2 ge Te2|fdec dcAG|AddA cAGF|GEcE D2D2||
# Added by Moxhe .
3
X: 3
T: The Pining Maid
R: reel
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
K: Gmin
|:A,DDC D2 D=E|FDG=E FDCF|DGGF G2 GA|BGAF GFDC|
A,DDC D2 (3FGA|BGAF GFDC|DGG=E FDCG,|A,CFC A,G, G,2:|
|:~B3 G AGFD|~F3 G FDCD|~B3 G AGFG|dGGF G2 (3ABc|
dB ~B2 cA A2|BGAF GFDC|DGG=E FDCG,|A,CFC A,G, G,2:|

Three comments

Source: maire o‘keeffe, john faulkner, jackie daly & donal o’connor - re-joyce
Transcription: gian marco p.

The Pining Maid, X:2

This version appears in P.W. Joyce’s Old Irish Music and Songs (1909), vol. 1, p. 163-164, No. 355.
Joyce copied this tune “from a MS evidently written by a skilled fiddler with much musical taste, from Limerick, but the name of the writer nowhere appears.”

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The Pining Maid, X:3

This G minor (really G ionian) version of the tune is played by Jake James on his 2018 album “Firewood”.