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Thread #138267   Message #3164675
Posted By: Jack Campin
03-Jun-11 - 08:22 AM
Thread Name: Tune Req: Do you know a sad fiddle air/lament?
Subject: RE: Tune Req: Do you know a sad fiddle air/lament?
Every tune with "selkie" or seal associations I know of is printed in the appendix to David Thomson's book "The People of the Sea". Most have no real words (maybe a nonsense phrase). Not many of them have been recorded.

This one is neither slow nor for the fiddle:

Fishermans Song For Attracting Seals

but it's a really nice tune anyway. (It works well done as a free canon, one player doing the tune straight and another repeating fragments of it).