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'''McFADDEN'S OWN REEL''' (Cor/Seisd Mic Paidin Fein). Irish, Reel. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. The title would seem to indicate that it was composed by Chicago fiddler John McFadden. | |f_annotation='''McFADDEN'S OWN REEL''' (Cor/Seisd Mic Paidin Fein). Irish, Reel. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. The title would seem to indicate that it was composed by Chicago fiddler John McFadden. | ||
[[File:mcfadden.jpg|200px|thumb|left|John McFadden]] | [[File:mcfadden.jpg|200px|thumb|left|John McFadden]] | ||
|f_source_for_notated_version="McFadden" [O'Neill]. Chicago fiddler [[biography:John McFadden|John McFadden]] was born around 1850 in the townland of Carrowmore, just north of Westport, County Mayo, into a musical family (his father and brother were also fiddlers). He did not read music but was a quick aural learner and had an enormous repertoire, and was a master of improvisation and variation. McFadden also composed tunes. O'Neill ('''Irish Minstrels and Musicians''', 1913, p. 296) relates: | |||
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''While visiting Sergt. (James) Early during a theatrical engagement in Chicago in 1911, "Patsy" Touhey,'' | |||
<blockquote | ''on the writer's suggestion, tried to learn "Hawk's Hornpipe" from McFadden. Phrase by phrase they progressed,'' | ||
While visiting Sergt. (James) Early during a theatrical engagement in Chicago in 1911, "Patsy" Touhey, | ''Touhey submitting patiently to many minor changes according to "Mac's" fancy, until he thought he had the tune'' | ||
on the writer's suggestion, tried to learn "Hawk's Hornpipe" from McFadden. Phrase by phrase they progressed, | ''noted correctly. Then he played it, apparently in good style, but not to his preceptor's satisfaction evidently.'' | ||
Touhey submitting patiently to many minor changes according to "Mac's" fancy, until he thought he had the tune | ''"Let me show you, 'Patsy'," says "Mac," in a kindly tone, and swinging his bow again ran the tune over once or'' | ||
noted correctly. Then he played it, apparently in good style, but not to his preceptor's satisfaction evidently. | ''twice. "Why, man alive, that's not how you gave it to me at all! You've changed the tune again; I gues we'll let'' | ||
"Let me show you, 'Patsy'," says "Mac," in a kindly tone, and swinging his bow again ran the tune over once or | ''it go this time," exclaimed Touhey, as he started to play something else on his pipes.'' | ||
twice. "Why, man alive, that's not how you gave it to me at all! You've changed the tune again; I gues we'll let | </blockquote> | ||
it go this time," exclaimed Touhey, as he started to play something else on his pipes. | |||
The fiddler was known as an incorrigible practical joker, and whether Touhey was the victim of this predilection, or if McFadden was simply could not help but vary a tune, O'Neill does not say. | The fiddler was known as an incorrigible practical joker, and whether Touhey was the victim of this predilection, or if McFadden was simply could not help but vary a tune, O'Neill does not say. | ||
|f_printed_sources= O'Neill (Krassen), 1976; p. 113. | |||
O'Neill (Krassen), 1976; p. 113. | |||
O'Neill ('''Music of Ireland: 1850 Melodies'''), 1903; No. 1293, p. 243. | O'Neill ('''Music of Ireland: 1850 Melodies'''), 1903; No. 1293, p. 243. | ||
O'Neill ('''Dance Music of Ireland: 1001 Gems'''), 1907; No. 558, p. 103. | O'Neill ('''Dance Music of Ireland: 1001 Gems'''), 1907; No. 558, p. 103. | ||
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Alan Ng's Irishtune.info [http://www.irishtune.info/tune/1253/]<br> | |||
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McFADDEN'S OWN REEL (Cor/Seisd Mic Paidin Fein). Irish, Reel. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. The title would seem to indicate that it was composed by Chicago fiddler John McFadden.
