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The Showacho march

By Roddy MacDonald

There are 3 recordings of this tune.

The Showacho has been added to 2 tune sets.

The Showacho has been added to 40 tunebooks.

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One setting

1
X: 1
T: The Showacho
R: march
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
K: Bmin
fe|:dA B2 B2 fe|d3A B2 de|f3a ef fd|e2 A2 A2 fe|
dA B2 B2 fe|d3c B2 de|fa ef de fd|1 cd eA B2 fe:|2 cd eA B2 de||
f2 a2 B2 de|fB B2 Bf fd|e2 a2 A4-|Ac cd fe dc|f2 ae B2 de|
fB B2 Bd de|fa ef de fd|1 cd eA B2 de:|2 cd eA B2 fe||

Seven comments

Showacho

Actually a march by Roddy McDonald, a scottish piper. Tune is named after a place in Japan.

昭和町

There are several places called Showacho in Japan.

Michael never said that there wasn’t. That’s the difference between “the” and “a” 😉

Nice tune. I think I’ll learn it.

Re: Showacho

I play this piece with the rose in the gap and MacLeod’s Farewell.

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Re: The Showacho

I don’t want to edit this straight after someone has changed the designation, but I’d call this a hornpipe, not a march - it has an underlying triplet swing.

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Re: The Showacho

I write here the part that connect this tune with “Portobello”

B| (E4E2>)F2 | G2>A2B2>d2 | Bc (A4 | A4) cdBA | AB (E2E2>) F2 | G2>A2 B2>d2 | (C8 | C4) BAAB |
(E4E2>)F2 | G2>A2B2>d2 | Bc (A4 | A4) cdBA | AB (E2E2>) F2 | G2>A2 B2 B2 | A8 ||