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Nice
Lovely tune. This is a really nice setting, too.
Nice one, Josh.
Thank you kindly! Most of my family comes From Killavil in Co. Sligo, so it sort of has a sentimental value as well 🙂 .
The Ten Pound Float
This has an alternate name in Bulmer & Sharpley’s, The "Ten Pound Float" good tune
This is a particularly nice setting, but isn’t it usually played as a single reel w/o repeats?
Composed by William Marshall.
The Killavil Fancy: Single or Double?
This tune is played as a single reel in the session I regularly attend, but Mike Rafferty and Willie Kelly recorded it as a double. I wonder if it’s commonly played as a double in some places.
By the way, this is not a composition of William Marshall. He wrote a slow tune called the Farewell March, but this is obviously a reel.
I’ve played it both ways at different sessions. Locally, we usually play it double—more opportunities for variations.
The Ten Pound Float
Thanks Will. I thought it’s rarely played as a single judging from Dow’s comment above and what I regularly hear and play in the session here.
Just learnt this tune today from a banjo player down at the local session. I had recorded him about a fornight ago but decided I’d learn it today. He gave me the name "Killavil House".
Nobody else calls it that way.
hhmm. I never heard the tune played anywhere since I recorded him so wouldn’t know the popular name for it but I’ll ask him where he got the name for it next time I see him. Maybe I heard him wrong.
I believe "fancy" was simply confused with "house".
The Farewell Reel
This tune is recorded on Out of Ireland. I just read a quote from Mick Moloney in which he says he learned the tune from Tom Byrne, a flute player from Sligo, who used to play it himself at American wakes. It is played a a double, with a variation in the "a" part, when played slowly on this recording, which is how I play it…But, of course, I speed it up a bit…Unless I wish to play it as a sort of air. It’s a wonderfully versatile tune.
The Ten Pound Float
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pb1gfq1h5kw&feature=rec-HM-fresh+div
This is a lovely laid back version by John Weir, Clare Keville and Eithne Ni Dhonaile, it’s the second tune
Paddy Keenan´s version (aprox.)
X: 1
T:Killavil Fancy, The
T:Eilish Brogan
T:Ten Pound Float, The
R:reel
D:Music at Matt Molloy’s
D:Frankie Gavin & Alec Finn
Z:Sometimes played doubled.
Z:id:hn-reel-101
M:C|
K:G
DGBG A2BA|GE~E2 cEGE|DGBG ~A3B|GEFD EGGA|
~B3d ~A3F|GE~E2 cEGE|DGBG ~A3B|GEED EGGD||
G2Bd efge|dBAB dBAB|G2Bd efge|dBAG EGGD|
G2Bd efge|dB~B2 dega|(3bag ag egde|gedB AGED||
My own setting
This is more or less how I play the tune, but this is one of those nice little melodies that offers lots of opportunities for variation. I’m not sure if I ever even play it the same way twice!
X: 1
T: Killavil Fancy, The
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Gmaj
|: DBBG AGBA | GEED cABG | DGBG ~A3B | GEED EFGA |
~B2dB ~A2BA | GE~E2 c2BG | DBBG A2BA | GEED E~E2D |
|: GABd edge | dB~B2 dBAB | GABd ~e2ge | dBAG E~G3 |
GA (3B/c/d/ egge | dB~B2 dega | (3b/g/a/ ag egdg | gedB AGEG |
Farewell
Lovely slow reel.
Another name for this tune
This tune is also called the Stonepark Reel as I was reliably told by a great musician from Tubbercurry.
