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MACKILMOYLE REEL. AKA - "Macalmoyle's Reel." AKA and see "Galop de Malbie," "Galope de la Mal Baie," "Tiddle Took Todfish." French Canadian, New England; Reel. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. A popular dance tune in Eastern Canada and New England. Amherst, Mass., fiddler Donna Hebert (Hinds, 1981) related that the late Ontario fiddler Graham Townsend said Joe Bouchard of Canada probably wrote the tune, however, this if so, it may in part be an adaptation of an older tune, given the relationship between "Mackilmoyle" and the south-west Virginia-collected "Folding Down the Sheets," a similar tune particularly in the second strains. "Folding Down the Sheets" dates back to at least the middle of the second half of the 19th century. There are two versions of "The Mackilmoyle" tune extent; one treats the first four notes of the tune as the pickup notes to a first measure, the other treats them as the beginning of the tune. Seattle accordion player Laurie Andres (according to Clyde Curley in The Portland Collection) believes the confusion came about because of the similarity to the tune "Galope de la Mal Baie." "Galop" begins on the downbeat, while "Mackilmoyle" begins on the upbeat.

Source for notated version: 'Down-East' fiddler Don Messer [Hinds/Hébert]; Donna Hébert [Hart & Sandell].

Printed sources: Hart & Sandell (Dance ce Soir), 2001; No. 26, p. 57. Hinds/Hébert (Grumbling Old Woman), 1981; p. 13. Messer (Way Down East), 1948; No. 25. Messer (Anthology of Favorite Fiddle Tunes), 1980; No. 45, p. 31. Miller & Perron (New England Fiddlers' Repertoire), 1983; No. 150. Sannella, Balance and Swing (CDSS). Songer (Portland Collection), 1997; p. 128. Spadaro (10 Cents a Dance), 1980; p. 17.

Recorded sources: Fretless FR200, Yankee Ingenuity - "Kitchen Junket" (1977). Rounder 7002, Graham Townsend, "Le Violon/ The Fiddle" (appears as "Galop de Malbaie").

See also listing at:
Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [1]

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-'''MACKILMOYLE REEL.''' AKA - "Macalmoyle's Reel." AKA and see "[[Galop de Malbie]]," "[[Galope de la Mal Baie]]," "[[Tiddle Took Todfish.]]." French Canadian, New England; Reel. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. A popular dance tune in Eastern Canada and New England. Amherst, Mass., fiddler Donna Hebert (Hinds, 1981) related that the late Ontario fiddler Graham Townsend said Joe Bouchard of Canada probably wrote the tune, however, this if so, it may in part be an adaptation of an older tune, given the relationship between "Mackilmoyle" and the south-west Virginia-collected "[[Folding Down the Sheets]]," a similar tune particularly in the second strains. "[[Folding Down the Sheets]]" dates back to at least the middle of the second half of the 19th century. There are two versions of  "The Mackilmoyle" tune extent; one treats the first four notes of the tune as the pickup notes to a first measure, the other treats them as the beginning of the tune. Seattle accordion player Laurie Andres (according to Clyde Curley in '''The Portland Collection''') believes the confusion came about because of the similarity to the tune "[[Galope de la Mal Baie]]." "Galop" begins on the downbeat, while "Mackilmoyle" begins on the upbeat.
+'''MACKILMOYLE REEL.''' AKA - "Macalmoyle's Reel." AKA and see "[[Galop de Malbie]]," "[[Galope de la Mal Baie]]," "[[Tiddle Took Todfish]]." French Canadian, New England; Reel. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. A popular dance tune in Eastern Canada and New England. Amherst, Mass., fiddler Donna Hebert (Hinds, 1981) related that the late Ontario fiddler Graham Townsend said Joe Bouchard of Canada probably wrote the tune, however, this if so, it may in part be an adaptation of an older tune, given the relationship between "Mackilmoyle" and the south-west Virginia-collected "[[Folding Down the Sheets]]," a similar tune particularly in the second strains. "[[Folding Down the Sheets]]" dates back to at least the middle of the second half of the 19th century. There are two versions of  "The Mackilmoyle" tune extent; one treats the first four notes of the tune as the pickup notes to a first measure, the other treats them as the beginning of the tune. Seattle accordion player Laurie Andres (according to Clyde Curley in '''The Portland Collection''') believes the confusion came about because of the similarity to the tune "[[Galope de la Mal Baie]]." "Galop" begins on the downbeat, while "Mackilmoyle" begins on the upbeat.
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