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GUEST,Roger O'K Tune Req: Dark Lochnagar (28) RE: Tune Req: Dark Lochnagar 22 Feb 02


Me again.

Third time hopefully lucky. As I was saying on another string, there goes that feckin' (q.v.) hair-trigger again.

I've been listening repeatedly to the uilleann pipers' Dark Lochnagar as recorded by four pipers (Willie Clancy, Liam O'Flynn, Jimmy O'Brien-Moran and Brian McNamara) and a not exactly stripped-down fiddle version by Sean Keane, and am inexorably drawn to the unoriginal conclusion that we're looking at not only two songs but also two tunes with the same name.

The tune on the link provided by Masato is definitely different from the pipers' one, but fits the Byron words fine. The fiddler's companion description would probably suit the Byron one also.

But the tune which I'm after has the structure A1A2 B1B2B3 A2 (much the same as Easter Snows or Port na bPucai, though in Lochnagar B1 and B2 are almost identical). So does anybody know Lochnagar words with similar structure to this?

I have O'Neill's 1001 and the tune is not in it. Is his 1850 available on line anywhere?


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