PORTHOLE OF THE KELP. Irish, Reel (cut time). D Dorian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA’BB’. Clare fiddler Bobby Casey is often credited with composing the tune. The tune appears under the “Porthole” title on his album “Taking Flight.” The tune is a member of the family of Dorian mode tunes that includes “Custom Gap (The)” and “Tuttle's Reel," and, more distantly, the mixolydian “Mills are Grinding (1) (The).”
Recorded sources : - Mulligan Records, Bobby Casey – “Taking Flight” (1979). Gael Linn CEFCD 205, Téada - "Ainneoin na Stoirme. In Spite of the Storm" (2013).
See also listing at : Alan Ng's Irishtune.info [1]
