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X: 1
T: Humours of Castlecomer [2]
S: Treoir
N: from "O'Farrell's Pocket Companion for the Irish Union Pipes"
Z: Transcribed by Bill Black
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
Q: 180
R: reel
K: G
G2 BG dBBG | EAAG FAFD | G2 BG dBBG | EcAF G2 G2 :|
gddc BdBG | EAAG FAFD | gddc BdBG | e2 fa/f/ g2 g2 |
gddc BdBG | EAAG FAFD | gdec BdBG | ecBA G2 G2 ||
HUMOURS OF CASTLECOMER [2]. AKA and see "Belfast Lasses." Irish, Reel (whole time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. The town of Castlecomer is in County Kilkenny.
Additional notes
Printed sources : - P.M. Haverty (One Hundred Irish Airs vol. 2), 1858; No. 192, p. 87. O'Farrell (Pocket Companion for the Irish or Union Pipes, vol. 1) c. 1805; p. 26. Robbins Music Corp. (The Robbins collection of 200 jigs, reels and country dances), New York, 1933; No. 174, p. 56 (as "Humors of Castle Comber").
Recorded sources : - Jerry O'Sullivan - "O'Sullivan Meets O'Farrell" (2005).
See also listing at :
Alan Ng's Irishtune.info [1]
See O'Farrell's original publication at imslp.org [2]
Comhaltas Archive [3]
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