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is a reel that, while not a member of a large tune family, is nontheless important in several traditions, largely on the merits of its strong, flowing and well-crafted melody.

It has a few names, but essentially they are the same tune, showing little of the variety and musical distance between versions that sometimes develops when tunes weave in and out of various traditions.

It can be found in North American tradition as "Bennett's Favorite" and "The Great Eastern," in Irish tradition as "John Brennan's Reel" and especially "The Silver Spire," and in Québecois tradition as one of the "La Grondeuse" tunes.

It has a long recording history, beginning with the duet of Paddy Killoran and Paddy Sweeney in the 1930's and continuing today with versions by Sharon Shannon, Tommy Peoples, John and Phil Cunningham, Natalie MacMaster and the groups Wild Asparagus and La Bottine Souriante, to name a few.

In Québec the title "Grondeuse (1) (La)"-'the grumbling woman'-is the title of many tunes, each fiddler seeming to have his or her own versions based on a variety of melodies in the key of 'D'.

What they have in common is that the 'G' string is tuned up to 'A' (ADae, or 'raised bass' tuning), producing ringing overtones and lending itself to dense droned bowing on the low parts.

"La Grondeuse" is universally played in the Québec fiddle tradition and it is often employed as a vehicle for step-dancing. One "La Grondeuse" strain is the "Great Eastern"/"Silver Spire" melody and has made the contra dance rounds for many years, beginning with New Hampshire fiddler and caller Dudley Laufman.

...more at: The Great Eastern Reel - full Score(s) and Annotations

X:0 T:Great Eastern Reel [1], The M:C L:1/8 S:Ryan's Mammoth Collection (1883) Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion K:D V:1 clef=treble name="0." [V:1] D2 (F>E) D>F A2|{dc}d>c(d>e) fcA(F|G)BE>G F>AD>F|G>(E {F}ED) C>E A,>C| D2 F>E D>F A>d|(3edc d>e f>dA>F|GBE>G F>AD>F|1 E2A,2D3A,:|2 E2A,2 D4|| |:A,>B,C>D E>FG>E|(3FED E>F G>AB>c|dcd>A Bc d>e|f>a (3baf e2 (3ABc| d2 fd cdec|dcd>B A>FD>F|GBE>G F>AD>F|1 E2A,2D2^G,2:|2 E2A,2 D2A,2||

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 {{SheetMusic
-|f_track=Silver Spire.mp3
+|f_track=The Great Eastern Reel.mp3
-|f_pdf=Silver Spire.pdf
+|f_pdf=Great Eastern Reel.pdf
-|f_artwork=Killoran.jpg
+|f_artwork=Great_Eastern_1866-crop.jpg
-|f_tune_name=The Silver Spire
+|f_tune_name=The Great Eastern Reel
-|f_track_title=Silver_Spire_(The)
+|f_track_title=Great_Eastern_Reel_(1)
 |f_section=abc
-|f_played_by=[https://soundcloud.com/musiqueaneuf Musique à Neuf]
+|f_played_by=[https://www.youtube.com/@PattiKusturokOfficial Patti Kusturok and Julie Fitzgerald]
-|f_notes=Paddy Killoran.
+|f_notes=Great Eastern at Hearts Content, July 1866.
-|f_caption=The "Silver Spire" title for the tune developed sometime in the intervening years between then and Sligo fiddler Paddy Killoran's 1930 recording of the melody with the new title.
+|f_caption=While the title may refer to a region of a country, it must be strongly considered that it was associated with The Great Eastern, one of three great transatlantic steamships designed by Isambad Kingdom Brunel
-|f_source=[https://soundcloud.com/musiqueaneuf/silver-spire Soundcloud]
+|f_source=[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpfDMTJnvBA Youtube]
 |f_pix=420
 |f_picpix=200
-|f_article=[[Silver_Spire_(The) | '''The Silver Spire''']]
+|f_article=[[Great_Eastern_Reel_(1) | '''The Great Eastern Reel''']]
-AKA and see “[[Bennett's Favorite]],” "[[Great Eastern Reel]]," "[[Grondeuse (1) (La)]]," "[[John Brennan's Reel (1)]]," "Nelson's Chase]]," "[[Scups Come]]." Irish, Reel (whole or cut time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB (most versions): AA'BB' (Taylor/Crack). The reel was printed by blackface minstrel banjoist James Buckley in 1860 as "[[Bennett's Favorite]]" and in '''Ryan's Mammoth Collection''' (1883) as "[[Great Eastern Reel]]." Nearly simultaneously with the '''Ryan's Mammoth''' issue, the tune was published under the title "[[Scups Come]]" in Laybourn's '''Köhlers' Violin Repository Book 2''' (1881-1885).  All these were predated by its entry into Book 1 (1851, p. 7) of the music manuscript collection of Bellport, Long Island, shipbuilder and fiddler [[biography:Isaac Homan | ]], who called it "[[Nelson's Chase]]."
+is a reel that, while not a member of a large tune family, is nontheless important in several traditions, largely on the merits of its strong, flowing and well-crafted melody.
-<br>
-<br>
-The "Silver Spire" title for the tune developed sometime in the intervening years between then and Sligo fiddler Paddy Killoran's 1930 recording of the melody with the new title. Donegal fiddler Tommy Peoples’ and Sligo fiddler Paddy Kiloran (1904-1965, recorded in the early 1930's in a medley paired with "[[Farrell O'Gara]]") versions are highly regarded, as is that of the Ballinakill Ceili Band (recorded on a 78 RPM) in which the melody is played as a hornpipe. Since no earlier record of the name “Silver Spire” occurs earlier than 1931 Killoran recording, it may be speculated that it was a tune that had become detached from its name, and the Killoran, Sweeney or the record company decided to call it after the then-current New York City engineering marvel, The Empire State Building, completed that same year, or its rival skyscraper the Chrysler Building, completed in 1930 (the Chrysler even has a silver spire adorning its top). Other suggestions are that the title is a corruption of the similar title of another Irish reel, “[[Silver Spear (The)]],” which migrated to the older “Great Eastern” tune.
+It has a few names, but essentially they are the same tune, showing little of the variety and musical distance between versions that sometimes develops when tunes weave in and out of various traditions.
+It can be found in North American tradition as "Bennett's Favorite" and "The Great Eastern," in Irish tradition as "John Brennan's Reel" and especially "The Silver Spire," and in Québecois tradition as one of the "La Grondeuse" tunes.
+It has a long recording history, beginning with the duet of Paddy Killoran and Paddy Sweeney in the 1930's and continuing today with versions by Sharon Shannon, Tommy Peoples, John and Phil Cunningham, Natalie MacMaster and the groups Wild Asparagus and La Bottine Souriante, to name a few.
+In Québec the title "[[Grondeuse (1) (La)]]"-'the grumbling woman'-is the title of many tunes, each fiddler seeming to have his or her own versions based on a variety of melodies in the key of 'D'.
+What they have in common is that the 'G' string is tuned up to 'A' (ADae, or 'raised bass' tuning), producing ringing overtones and lending itself to dense droned bowing on the low parts.
+"La Grondeuse" is universally played in the Québec fiddle tradition and it is often employed as a vehicle for step-dancing. One "La Grondeuse" strain is the "Great Eastern"/"Silver Spire" melody and has made the contra dance rounds for many years, beginning with New Hampshire fiddler and caller Dudley Laufman.
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