Archibald McDonald Of Keppoch waltz

My transcription of this scottish slow air from John Cunningham. I have it in the album “25 Years of Celtic Music”.
6th bar is played like |f3ga2| the first time only.

That would be the 5th bar actually. The pickup doesn’t count as a bar. 🙂 Nice tune though. I’ll go over it later when I get some time.

This lovely tune has been played at all our family gatherings! Hope others love playing it as much as i do ! (it sounds great on Clarsach! )

Mmm… I actually meant the 6th bar though. I didn’t explain it very well, I meant the 6th bar that is |f3ed2| is played by John Cunningham like |f3ga2| the first time, when he starts the tune, but not anymore.
And I agree with Davesim this tune is lovely.

I’ve recently acquired a three row Paolo Soprani B/C/C# and this is a delight to play on it. Thanks Pere for putting it here.

And by the way this is of course played much slower than the midi.

Yes! it’s a matter of course with me. When I see a dotted quaver starting a triplet I seem to have a natural inclination to play it slow.
In fact I rarely listen to the midi.

Just realised, no dotted quaver & no triplet. Of course I refer to the dotted crotchet at the beginning of the bar. The snatch at the start of bars 7(A) 7,10 & 15 (B) make for a super conrast.

Tony Elman plays this on‘Swinging on the Gate’ on hammered dulcimer. Reminds me of a visit to Asheville N.C.from UK. There was a power cut for 3 days - were we glad to be able to jam at night by candle light!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTcptee8xgw

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Ms. Burgess does a lovely set of this tune with The Sailor’s Wife.
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=M1sOgK4haTU

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Same general dynamic as the contrast with Sailor’s Wife, but JD’s just more fun to drum to 🙂

With Harmonies.