What's your favorite...REEL?

Subject: RE: What's your favorite...REEL?
From: GUEST,Death by Whisky
Date: 20 Sep 00 - 07:20 PM

That previous post is mine.Apologies for my name change!!!

Anyway,I was about to reply:

Oh, I see what you mean.The bucks of oranmore drives along quite nicely,but there are a lot of tunes I havent',got names for

Subject: RE: What's your favorite...REEL?
From: mousethief
Date: 20 Sep 00 - 07:19 PM

I much prefer the Daiwa. It's more real.

Alex
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Subject: RE: What's your favorite...REEL?
From: GUEST
Date: 20 Sep 00 - 07:14 PM

I find the Diawa reel is very good for pier and rock fishing.

Subject: RE: What's your favorite...REEL?
From: Bert
Date: 20 Sep 00 - 06:54 PM

The one that I'm dancing to at the moment.

There is a special place reserved in hell for people who play dance music on occasions where people can't dance.

Subject: RE: What's your favorite...REEL?
From: Ely
Date: 20 Sep 00 - 06:45 PM

St Anne's is good. I love Spotted Pony. Casey's Reel is another really good one. I'm guessing that Shag Poke, Dubuque, and Billy in the Low Ground are all reels, and those are some of my favorites. Is Elzic's Farewell a reel? I love that one, too.

I often hear American playing tunes that I know to be European (usually Irish) and that I know to be played in hornpipe rhythm, played straight as reels (Rickett's Hornpipe and Keel Row come to mind). Americans seem to function almost exclusively in 4/4 and 3/4 time. I don't mean this as a criticism, since I am American and since lots of songs sound good either way, I'm just saying that, in my experience, this seems to be common.

Subject: RE: What's your favorite...REEL?
From: Thomas the Rhymer
Date: 20 Sep 00 - 06:21 PM

Uncanny! I was listening to St.Anne's Reel while I was posting this thread! John McCutcheon's 'The Wind That Shakes the Barley' record...1977, June Appal Media collective.

St. Anne's Reel-Cricket on the Hearth-Kitchen Girl-Mississippi Sawyer. First track!

Subject: RE: What's your favorite...REEL?
From: Turtle
Date: 20 Sep 00 - 06:00 PM

And then there are old-timey reels like Spotted Pony (my current favorite) and Kitchen Girl . . .

Subject: RE: What's your favorite...REEL?
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 20 Sep 00 - 05:35 PM

I would imagine that even if not thier #1 favourite, St Anne's will be high on a lot of people's lists. I love the tune.

Jon

Subject: RE: What's your favorite...REEL?
From: Jim Krause
Date: 20 Sep 00 - 05:35 PM

The questions of jigs has been pretty nicely answered. Here in the Midwestern US there aren't many differences between those tunes designated "Hornpipe" and "Reel."

Favorite reel of the moment Marmaduke's Hornpipe. (See what I mean?) ;-)

Subject: RE: What's your favorite...REEL?
From: GUEST,Murray MacLeod
Date: 20 Sep 00 - 05:28 PM

U second that. "St Anne's Reel " captivates everyone who hears it.

Murray

Subject: RE: What's your favorite...REEL?
From: Mark Clark
Date: 20 Sep 00 - 04:58 PM

"St. Anne's Reel", without a doubt.

      - Mark

Subject: RE: What's your favorite...REEL?
From: The Shambles
Date: 20 Sep 00 - 04:47 PM

The Foxhunter's Reel

Subject: RE: What's your favorite...REEL?
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 20 Sep 00 - 04:45 PM

There are various tpyes of jigs:

Single jigs are written in 6/8 time and sometimes 12/8 time.
Double jigs are written in 6/8 time. Slip jigs are written in 9/8 time.

I have seen reference to strathpeys being written in 4/4 and 4/8 time.

Reels and hornpipes are in 4/4 time.

Much of distinction between the tune types concerns the accenting of the notes and it is not always that clear which is which (some players play hornpipes fast and flat for example - more reel like). having said that, I believe that the best way to understand the different types of tunes is to listen to examples of each and develop a feel for the tunes - same goes for learning to play them.

Favourite reel - Silver Spire.

Jon

Subject: RE: What's your favorite...REEL?
From: Kara
Date: 20 Sep 00 - 04:34 PM

Jigs are in 6/8 time, counted one two three one two three, very fast ( slip jigs are in 3/9)some jigs for example the Long Note are in 12/8 , but can be played as a real if you like. reels are in 4/4 time hornpipes are in 2/4 as are marches Strathspeys are a mistery they seem to go along normally for abit and then tripple their spead for a bit and then calm down again

Subject: What's your favorite...REEL?
From: Thomas the Rhymer
Date: 20 Sep 00 - 04:11 PM

I'm no expert. I don't really know the difference between reels, hornpipes, jigs, or strathspeys for that matter. I enjoy so many of them, and yet I don't know where their differentiations lie. Can you help/refer me?

Also, if you have a favorite reel, what is it?

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