The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #72651 Message #1254635
Posted By: Bardford
23-Aug-04 - 02:13 PM
Thread Name: Flaked, in Green Fields of Canada
Subject: RE: Flaked, in Green Fields of Canada
A google search (fiddle, flake, tune) yields these pages with the appropriate paragraphs pasted herein. It looks like flaked is indeed a "fiddle word". Perhaps something to do with the snowfall effect of the rosin...
"The band works very much as a team with three lead instruments out front accordion, fiddle and uilleann pipes backed up with subtle guitars, bouzouki, and bodhran rhythms. Gerry Murray's piano accordion blends with Kieran Fahy on fiddle and piper Michael Horgan to provide a sturdy frontline that can flake it out with the best of them while also allowing a delicious subtlety in both style and approach."
"The double jig - "Daniel O'Connell" - which follows brings vividly to mind Cooley's last day playing. It was in Kelly's Bar, in Gort that a small number of people had gathered on a Sunday midday to hear Joe. Des Mulkere and myself helped him to flake out the old mountain reels, and as the two o'clock closing hour drew on, a number of young musicians made their way in from Galway where they had given a concert the night before - there was Triona Ni Dhomhnaill, a traditional singer of twenty-one, Paddy Glackin, a young fiddle player, and others... "