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Thread #173965   Message #4219676
Posted By: The Sandman
23-Mar-25 - 06:04 PM
Thread Name: Patsy Gearys slide
Subject: RE: Patsy Gearys slide
I was born in England, I have spent half my life in ireland that does not make me irish,I believe you too were not born in Ireland, is that correct
A highland is an Irish musical form in duple meter, largely idiomatic of County Donegal. Like the fling, it is related to the Scottish highland fling and the hornpipe, found throughout the British Isles. Like its Scottish cousin, a fling is played in cut time and has a dotted rhythm.
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His music, through John Kelly,bi's associated with West Clare. that does not make the slide which has the first part of an american tune, and which is a type of tune idiomatic of of Sliabh Luachra area, a CLARE TUNE