Robbie Hannan’s reel

An excellent piping reel from the master Robbie Hannan. You can hear a slight relationship to the tune ‘Flood On The Holme’ but this is a very different tune. A tune that deserves to be heard more.

That’s the original title for this Scots tune. "Flood on the Holm" includes it in the 3rd and 4th parts with some variation. https://thesession.org/tunes/1041 Robbie Hannan would cite J. Doherty as the source.

There is a passing similarity to ‘Stay Another While’. I don’t know how to link a tune but I believe this tune is on the data base.

https://thesession.org/tunes/7195

Just worked it out

Key signature: D Major
Submitted on September 24th 2007 by bogman.
~ /tunes/7760

XX: 2
T: Miss Rattray
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: D Major
|: d2 AG FDDF | GEEA FDDA | d2 AG FDDg | fdec d2 dA :|
|: defg affa | beed cAAc |[1 defg affa | beec d2 AB :|[2 BGGB FDDg | fdec d2 dA ||

This is Miss Rattray

This is an old traditional Scottish tune I learned from Shetland fiddler Fionn MacArthur. It dates from the 1800’s or earlier.

This tune appears in ‘The Skye Collection’ first published 1887. This is pretty much the way it appears in the book. The tune you refer to is likely be a version of this rather than the other way round. It is in common with the syle of tune from that period whereas Robbie Hannan’s has a more modern arrangement.

# Posted on September 24th 2007 by bogman

The A-part’s similar to this https://thesession.org/tunes/7195

Sorry Jack I missed your comment.

Compiled by Keith Norman MacDonald

Bogman’s transcript is basically copied from "The Skye Collection", page 34… The only difference are the lead-ins and that the B-part is fully written out, rather than as 1st and 2nd endings ~

K: D Major
|: (3A/B/c/ |
d2 AG FDDF | GEEA FDDA | d2 AG FDDg |[1 fdec d2 d :|
[2 fdec d2 dA ||
defg affa | beed cAAc |[1 defg affa | beec d2 AB :|
[2 BGGB FDDg | fdec d2 d |]

As usual, "The Athole Collection", 1884, by James Stewart Robertson, has the identical transcription… An earlier publication of this was in "The Dance Music of Scotland", 1851, by J.T. Surrene…

Key signature: D Major
Submitted on September 24th 2007 by bogman.
https://thesession.org/tunes/7760

Here’s a rehash of this transcription, attributed to Robbie Hannah, but reduced to 16 measures and with a few fudges so that it can be compared to the above transcription ~

X: 3
T: Robbie Hannan’s
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Dmaj
|: (3ABc |
dAAG FDFA | GBed cABc |[1 dAAG FDDg | fdec d2 :|
[2 dedA (3Bcd AG | FAEA DEFA ||
defg afdA | GBed cAAg |[1 fgaf dAGF | GBec dfag :|
[2 fdge afbg | fgec d2 ||

This and the reduced from given here, just seems all over the place and the areas where there isn’t ‘agreement’ jar on my senses of it. I much prefer the source transcriptions, which make for better dance music…

I think Robbie Hannan’s reel is an amalgamation of John Doherty’s versions of two J.S. Skinner tunes - the first half of "The Auld Wheel" https://thesession.org/tunes/4728 and the 2nd half of "The Bride’s Reel" https://thesession.org/tunes/8573. Don’t really see what Miss Rattray has to do with it.