The Fair Wind reel

This is Tamalin’s version to Fair Wind; Dervish also play in their "Out on the Road" set- it’s the third tune, after Repeal of the Union. They play it in G major, I think, and slightly different. But I prefer the John McSherry way, so… 🙂 Enjoy!

Good tune, I learned this in G. A works just as well. A real nice rattler on the Banjo.

A little nice tune. Easy to play yet very "dancant"(?)

DANSANT!

I love this little gem, I play it in D sometimes as well.

Belfast band "Tamalin" recorded it in A.

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T:A Fair Wind
M:4/4
L:1/8
S:Dervish: "Midsunner’s Night"
R:reel
Z:g.m.p
K:G
~G3F ~G3A|BAGA BAAB|~G3E ~G3A|1BAGE EDDE:|2BAGE EDDc||
BcdB ~G3A|BcdB cAAc|BcdB ~G3A|1BAGE EDDc:|2BAGE EDDE||
GE~E2 ~c3A|BAGA BAAB|GE~E2 ~c3A|1BAGE EDDA:|2BAGE EDDE||

sounds a lot like "Rip the Calico", doesn’t it?

Err…so much so that I think it *is* Tear the Calico…well spotted!

i really like the third part

This does sound like Rip the Calico and yet definately is NOT Rip/Tear the Calico, at least not the Calico version the Bothy Band played.

The C-part of Fair Wind is the same as the B-Part in Rip the Calico, the other parts are different.

Compare: https://thesession.org/tunes/719

(The Fair WInd is also on Danu’s "Danu" album after Joe Bane’s.)

I always think it’s going to be this tune when it comes up in the session. It sounds almost identical until the third part.

https://thesession.org/tunes/1729

This tune is in G major and it’s also listed in A major.
I learned it from Jack Gilder’s lovely playing in A.
It does not come up when you input Fairwind—too bad.

A fun tune, It also appears on "Midsummers Night" by dervish

Thank you, Bobbi, very kind of you to say, but I play it in G.

Here’s a nice example from YouTube from a flute player in Spain who says he learned it from from Breandan O’Hare.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rg4oyHsgGII

play video

As learned by Tiarnan O Duinnchinn at the workshop of the Uilleann Pipers Club Schaffhausen march 2009

https://thesession.org/tunes/936
The setting here is in "A", but "swisspiper’s" in "G" is definitely the more common.

https://thesession.org/tunes/2057
"A Fair Wind" is the common title for the G major version.

Wonder when we’ll get our first quadruplication?

We play this tune in G at our sessions in Wellington (NZ) but know it as Maeve’s Return… slight variation but pretty much the same.

BTCpz: If you make allowance for the different tonality (D rather than G) the 3rd part of this reel is virtually the same as the 2d part of Rip The Calico; https://thesession.org/tunes/719 ..you might like that tune too.

"For they have swallowed wind, and they shall rip the calico"
http://scripturetext.com/hosea/8-7.htm

I play this one as I learned it from The Tulla Ceili Band’s album "A Celebration of 50 Years" where they play it with a different order of the parts, the order being the parts that here are called C, A and B.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwgV3nCKfvY

play video

I reworked my version as it was obviousely not correct. It is also in coincidence with the tube above now.

I learned this tune from the Tannahill Weavers recording under the name "Mulhaire’s" or "The Rough Road", and for the longest time I couldn’t find it on the Session.

The Tannies play it in D, to fit the GHB, while the local session I go to sometimes has played it in G. I’ve submitted settings in both keys.

… from the playing of Shaskeen, famous céilí band from Galway: http://www.shaskeen.net

"Triplicated…
Wonder when we’ll get our first quadruplication?

# Posted by bogman 5 years ago."

Actually that has already happened, as Willie Clancy’s tune Fowler on the Moor is a single jig or fling version of this: https://thesession.org/tunes/11140

X:3 here from a recording of Paddy O’Brien the 1st and Jack Coen. I simply modified the setting in O’Neill’s. It’s great fun on the box, those ABc triplets etc. Paddy didn’t play the low E trebles but I was too lazy to remove them and it’s what I’d play anyway. He played rolls there.

There are interesting settings someone could note down on publically available recordings of Clare fiddlers Bobby Casey and Patrick Kelly, too. Interestingly enough on both recordings they played the tune on the whistle first. This tune usually only covers the span of an octave, suggesting a reel that was once played on the big pipes. Some settings thrown in a high E but that’s pretty superfluous to getting the melody’s point across.