Sunday 12 April 2020

Caught on Camera

Hello!
This tune is one of a pair really - we always played it along with the BlueTack Man. It cracks along a pace when you get it under your fingers. It's in G, so just a cross fingered C natural needed. It was on the album Scatter Pipes from 2005 and isn't available anywhere. This is a great pair of tunes though - so definitely worth re-recording and getting out there!
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Vicki



Thursday 9 April 2020

The Bluetack Man

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It's tune written by Jonny Dyer today. A pretty little jig, fits so wonderfully on the wooden flute. Of course - if you can play it on the wooden flute you can also play it on the silver Boehm flute. The eponymous BlueTack Man's video is below! It was on the album Scatter Pipes, which isn't available to buy anywhere - maybe we should re-record it!
Enjoy!
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Vicki
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Sunday 29 March 2020

Ormistons' Part 2


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This is the second part of Ormistons' - essentially the same as the jig, but its been reel-ified.
Enjoy!
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Vicki
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Friday 27 March 2020

Ormistons' Part 1

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One of the very first tunes I wrote for wooden flute today. It's a really long tune and it comes in two parts, so today is part 1. It's a jig with 6 parts, but it's not that tricky. It's called Ormistons' because that was the maker of the flute that I played at that time, so the flute gave me the tune.
Enjoy!
:))
Vicki
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Saturday 21 March 2020

Hennessey's Gathering

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Today we have a tune on the silver Boehm system flute. It was written by Jonny Dyer many many years ago! It cracks along at quite a pace! It was on an early album, on the mash which we recorded over the millennium in the Old Vic Studio in Bristol - where they recorded The Archers.
Enjoy!
:))
Vicki
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Wednesday 18 March 2020

To Catch a Cat

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We're going back to the beginning! Right back to the early albums. We released Tune Twidding back in 2002 and it's not available for sale anymore, but we released a digital download version of Thumb Twiddling and on the mash and called it Twiddle On. So you can still get some of the tracks and this is one of them!

This is one of Vicki's tunes today. To Catch a Cat. It's a jig I wrote many years ago when I was trying to catch a cat that was coming into the house. A big black cat - I never did catch it, but I did get a great jig out of it! Dots are below and also a link to our recording of this on spotify.
Enjoy!
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Vicki
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Thursday 9 January 2020

The Quantox Reel

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This tune was written as a marching tune for teaching weekends at Halsway Manor, but it was too hard for the beginners, so I ended up writing The Halsway Parade instead. But I still love this tune! So here it is for you. We decided that the pairing should go on Paper of Pins, so it did!
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Enjoy!
Vicki
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