Hand Me Down The Tackle reel

A good solid common irish session tune, enjoyable on any instrument. AKA as “Reidy Johnson’s” & “Hand Me Down The Tackle”. One of the few tune names with a dangling participle.

Here is a transcription of a version by Sean Ryan. Not all that different from that already posted, but it shows his ornamentation. Same key etc.

dD (3DDD FD (3FGA|dfaf {a}gfec|dD (3DDD FAAF|(3Bcd AF EDB,D|
dD (3DDD FD (3FGA|dfaf {a}gfec|d2 (3edc dBAF|(3GGG EF GABc:|
d2fd Adfd|(3ddd fd BAFA|(3ddd fd Adfd|(3Bcd AF EDB,D|
d2fd Adfd|cdef g2fg|(3agf (3gfe fdec|(3dcB AF EDB,D|
d2fd Adfd|(3ddd fd BAFA|(3ddd fd Adfd|(3Bcd AF EDB,D|
(3agf ab agfa|g2 {a}(3gfg gage|faeg fdAF|(3GGG EF GABc||

Here’s a transcription of another version played by Declan Masterson on the uilleann pipes on his recording ‘End of the Harvest’:

d~D3 FAAF | dgfd edBc | d~D3 FAAF | GFEF GABc
d~D3 FAAF | dgfd edBd | fdec dcBA | ~G3F GABc::
de(3fed AdfA | dfed cdec | de(3fed Adfd | BGEF GABc
de(3fed AdfA | dfed cdeg | fdec dcBA | ~G3F GABc:|

In my opinion this one somehow flows a little better than the one written here.

Transcribed from a session tape.

This tune is also found on Seamus Ennis’s album of the same name. He follows it with the “Flax in Bloom.”

https://thesession.org/tunes/800

Its a nice little banjo tune;)

The tune Mr. Rooney plays on “The Godfather” listed as “Tom Steele” is known by some as “Tilly Finn´s” ( Fred Finn´s sister ).

This tune is in the Gunn Book (Fermanagh 1865) as The Boys of New York

There’s no dangling participle, Brad…maybe if it was “Hand Me The Tackle Down”.

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

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I only ever knew this tune as Hand Me Down the Tackle

This version goes down to middle c, which sounds sort of cool. Much more triplets, maybe the Donegal influence.

X: 1
T: Reidy Johnson’s
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Dmaj
dD D/D/D EDFA | dfaf gfec | dD D/D/D FDAD | BFAF EFAB |
dD D/D/D EDFA | dfaf gfeg | f2 eg fdAF | GFED CDBc |
dD D/D/D EDFA | dfaf gfec | dcde fdAF | GFED CDBc |
dD D/D/D EDFA | dfaf gfeg | f2 eg fdAF | GFED CDBc ||
|: d2 fd Adfd | d/d/d fd gfec | dcde fdAF | GFED CDBc |
[1 d2 fd Adfd | cdef g2 fg | afge faec | dBAF EDCD :|
[2 ~a3 b afdf | ~g2 gf gbag | f2 eg fdAF | GFED CDBc |]

The first beats of the 1st part are akin to the first beats of the 2nd part of The Wise Maid
https://thesession.org/tunes/118
while the first beats of the 2nd part can be found in The Peeler’s Jacket’s 2nd part (in G)
https://thesession.org/tunes/1343

Here is:
https://thesession.org/tunes/800

https://youtu.be/T0Xoc_uCppg

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2nd tune, after “Corney Is Coming”.

Here is the version published by O’Neill in Dance Music of Ireland - 1001 Gems (1907), p. 100, no. 539, as Tom Steele.

I’m just wondering, you’re posting a lot of tunes here, “Moxhe”, several in one day, whereas 1 person only used to be allowed to post 1 tune per day. Most of the tunes you are posting seem to come out of books. Do you play all of these tunes ? Are they common tunes in your local sessions ? Just genuinely curious.

Yet another setting; I play it as a dance version.

None of the versions posted above are like I’ve heard it played, having bar 8 of the first part being a run up the scale beginning on low C#

|C#DEF# GABc#|

Didn’t see this version above so I added it, I’ve often heard it played this way.

Transcribed from somewhere, I don’t know. I’ve been playing it this way for years.