brioc

It's better if you don't start a new thread on the same topic, so we'll continue the discussion here. The "Fair Deal Squirrel" was a quote from what you said in one of your postings above and I asked you to explain the information you found out. It would still help if you could clarify that info.

You said: "It is on Paddy Reilly's "Wild Rover" album. more written re tune on CD is : Fair Deal Squirrel, Brook Music, Anton Davila" and I was asking if that is the name of the tune.

I did a search for Anton Davila and found out that he is an Uillean piper from Galicia(?)in Spain. I could not find a Paddy Reilly album called "Wild Rover".

I need to know 3 things from you. Please supply this information.

1. Please look at your do-re-mi notation and try to put in where the bars are. If you don't know about written music (and I am assuming that you don't from what you have said so far) then the trick is to listen to the 1-2-3 beat of the waltz and put a bar line, i.e. one of these | before the 1 beat, so for example the beats and bars would be

|1 2 3|1 2 3|1 2 3|1 2 3|

It's a bit of a trick to hear this if you haven't listened for it before, but once you get the hang of it you don't lose it. If you were playing a drum along with the music, and if it is in fact in waltz time, then there should be a distinct 1-2-3 rhythm.

do do do re mefaso-o me do do' tee la-a sofa mefaso sofame fa re-
so-o lasome fa me re do do' sola do' la so-o f#solaso me fa re do do.

The first bar might have 3 full beats and look like this:

| do do do|

or there may actually be a partial bar at the beginning and it could look like this:

do | do do re|

2. Also, are the grouped notes shorter/quicker notes e.g. mefaso-o?

If you don't give us more information on your do-re-mi version then a huge number of possible tunes could be interpreted from your notation.

3. Which country and area do you live in.

Really, truly, I think that your best idea is to find out where a Mudcatter lives close to you and send them a Personal Message, and phone them up and sing it to them over the phone.

Helen