I have been getting tunes ready for our annual blockbuster Irish session/fish fry, and I came across a nice tune called the Basket of Turf. (O'Neill's #735) I have e-mailed the MIDI file to Joe Offer, and I hope it will appear here so you can have it, too.

The tune is in G, but a D# appears in the B part. The notes are F#, D#,F#, which call for a B chord rather than the Bm which usually hangs out with tunes in G. Somebody alert the Folk Police! Call in a forensic musicologist! This may well be the only D# to be played in all of River City on the day of March 17th.

Question: if an unexpected minor interval is a blue note, is an unexpected major interval a pink note?

Watch this site for the tune itself.