Cornelius Curtin's Big Balloon

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Theme code Index	5151 47bL7bL7b
Also known as	Balún Mór Chonchúir Mhic Cruitín, Captain Holmes, Con Curtin's Big Balloon, Hide and Go Seek
Composer/Core Source
Region	Ireland
Genre/Style	Irish
Meter/Rhythm	Jig/Quadrille
Key/Tonic of	E
Accidental	2 sharps
Mode	Dorian
Time signature	6/8
History
Structure	AAB
Editor/Compiler	Biography:Breandán Breathnach
Book/Manuscript title	Book:Ceol Rinnce na h--Éirreann vol. 3
Tune and/or Page number	No. 22, p. 11
Year of publication/Date of MS	1985
Artist	Biography:Paddy Carty
Title of recording	Traditional Irish Music
Record label/Catalogue nr.	Shanachie 29001
Year recorded	1975
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CORNELIUS CURTIN'S BIG BALLOON (Balún Mór Chonchúir Mhic Cruitín). AKA and see "Captain Holmes," "Hide and Go Seek." Irish, Jig. E Dorian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. Fiddler Con Curtain (d. 2009) ran a pub for many years in Fulham, south London called The Balloon, (or The Big Balloon), though most Irish music session pubs were north of the river. Of late, he and his wife Anne run a pub in Brosna, north Kerry. Con gives what he considers irrelevancies short shrift, guitarist Paul de Grae relates, as he did on one occasion when a visitor to Con's pub complained of the absence of a lock on the men's toilet door. Expletives deleted, Con's reply was that he had never heard of anyone in Kerry stealing shit. Sligo flute player Tommy Healy has been credited with coming up with the title in lieu of the original one which had been lost.

Source for notated version: flute player Paddy Carty (Ireland) [Breathnach].

Printed source: Breathnach (CRÉ III), 1985; No. 22, p. 11.

Shanachie 29001, Paddy Carty - "Traditional Irish Music" (1975).

X: 1
T: Con Curtin's Big Balloon
T: Bal\'un M\'or Chonch\'uir Mhic Cruit\'in
S: B.Breathnach:"Ceol Rince na hEireann" III/22
Z: B.Black
L: 1/8
M: 6/8
R: jig
K: G
d|BGE EFE|BGE EdB|AFD DFD|DFA ded|
B2E EDE|BAB d2e|fdB BAF|1 GEE E2 :|2 GEE E3 ||
eBe gfe|bge efe|dAd fed|afd dgf|
eBe gfe|bge edc|BGE ABA|BGE E3|
eBe gfe|bge efe|dAd fef|afa def|
g2g aga|bge gfg|edB BAF|GEE E3 ||