Low C Tunes

This page is for listing any tunes with low C that you think might fit well on the uilleann pipes. Read the lists of tunes below and feel free to add your own. I myself will add to the page from time to time.

If possible, please give a source for the tune, i.e. the book in which it can be found or a player and recording it can be heard from.

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  1. Duncan says: December 30, 2011

    I think it’s only fitting to start things off with a few tunes from the first book of bagpipe music ever published, Geoghegan’s Compleat Tutor for the Pastoral or New Bagpipe:

    The Mayjor – 6/8
    New York, a Hornpipe – 3/2
    The Battle of Aghrem (The Football March) – 2/4
    The Humours of Westmeath – 6/8
    Blind Paddy’s Fancy – 2/4
    Charh’s Hornpipe – 3/2
    New Mile End Fair – 4/4
    The Chocolate Pot – 2/4
    Drunken Peasant – 2/4
    Middle Row Harlequin – 6/8
    Portsmouth Harbour – 3/2

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  2. Duncan says: December 31, 2011

    A few more airs:

    The Month of January – related to Paddy’s Green Shamrock Shore
    Siún Ní Dhuibhir
    Anach Cuan – related to The Streets of Derry
    An Buachaillín Bán
    Coinleach Glas an Fhómhair – two very different versions, Clannad and Eileen Ni Chongaile
    Amhrán Iníon A’ Bhaoghailligh
    Teangaidh na nGael

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  3. Duncan says: December 31, 2011

    A few tunes with low C from the Advocates’ Manuscript of pastoral pipe tunes:

    Reel (no. 5) – 2/4
    No. 11 – 4/4
    No. 19 – 2/4
    No. 25 – 6/8
    No. 43 – 6/8
    No. 50 – 4/4
    No. 51 – 4/4
    Corn Riggs (no. 55) – 4/4
    The Isle of Skye (no. 57) – 4/4

    See Ross Anderson’s Music Page for an online copy of The Advocates’ Manuscript in three parts: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3.

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  4. Duncan says: December 31, 2011

    Some of the oldest known tunes were clan marches that would have been played on pipes. The foot-joint allows the possibility of playing these tunes against the drones in D:

    Brian Boru’s March
    The March of the Kings of Laois (the foot-joint allows E C E in the second-last phrase)
    O’Neill’s March

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  5. Duncan says: December 31, 2011

    The foot-joint may be especially effective for airs. Here are a few that go down to C:

    The Banks of the Moorlough Shore – Sarah and Rita Keane of Caherlistrane, closely related to
    The Foggy Dew , the well-known rebel song
    An Sagairtín, which is closely related to
    She Moved Through the Fair
    The Green Fields of Canada- the foot-joint allows playing it in D including the F# D C D in the final bar, as sung by Paddy Tunney and Planxty
    My Lagan Love – air collected by Herbert Hughes in 1903. Its been overdone, but not on pipes – I think it could sound brilliant.
    A Chomaraigh Aoibhinn, Ó , which is closely related to
    The Star of the County Down
    Paddy’s Green Shamrock Shore

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  6. Duncan says: January 15, 2012

    A few more airs:

    The Month of January – related to Paddy’s Green Shamrock Shore
    Siún Ní Dhuibhir
    Anach Cuan – related to The Streets of Derry
    An Buachaillín Bán
    Coinleach Glas an Fhómhair – two very different versions, Clannad and Eileen Ni Chongaile
    Amhrán Iníon A’ Bhaoghailligh
    Teangaidh na nGael

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  7. Duncan says: January 16, 2012

    A powerful jig that goes to C:

    The King of the Pipers – (the King used the Gillis Foot-joint)

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  9. Duncan says: January 16, 2012

    A few reels that go down to C:

    Mother’s Delight
    The Tempest
    Tommy Mayland’s
    The Wheels of the World
    The College Groves
    Jenny’s Welcome to Charlie
    The Cornhill – thanks to Bill Ochs who sent this to me, transcribed by him from the McNamara Family’s album “Leitrim’s Hidden Treasure”.

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