darcybethd Posted July 5, 2005 Share Posted July 5, 2005 Hi! Just looking for the hornpipe tune "Clumsy Lover" it may go by a different name, but if it has any aliases, I dont know them Couldn't find it on the Tune-o-Tron and just wondering if anyone knew where I could find it, hopefully in C or G major, but Im not too picky. I'm going to try searching the internet but putting the word 'lover' into any search engine is risky buisness. Anyway, if anyone can help I'd appreciate it, Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Ryan Posted July 5, 2005 Share Posted July 5, 2005 Hi! Just looking for the hornpipe tune "Clumsy Lover" it may go by a different name, but if it has any aliases, I dont know them Couldn't find it on the Tune-o-Tron and just wondering if anyone knew where I could find it, hopefully in C or G major, but Im not too picky. I'm going to try searching the internet but putting the word 'lover' into any search engine is risky buisness. Anyway, if anyone can help I'd appreciate it, Thanks! <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Hi. If you go on the Internet to JC's ABC Tune Finder, you'll find the tune there. It's a great site. Happy playing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Barnert Posted July 5, 2005 Share Posted July 5, 2005 Hi. If you go on the Internet to JC's ABC Tune Finder, you'll find the tune there. It's a great site. Happy playing! Here's the link to the ABC Tune Finder: http://trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/FindTune.html Go nuts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimLucas Posted July 5, 2005 Share Posted July 5, 2005 Hi! Just looking for the hornpipe tune "Clumsy Lover" it may go by a different name, but if it has any aliases, I dont know them <{POST_SNAPBACK}> With a clever title like "The Clumsy Lover", it's unlikely to pick up aliases (aside from dropping the "The")... except perhaps something that shouldn't be printed here. It's a modern tune, composed by Canadian bagpiper Neil Dickie. It's become so popular that many folks think it's just another "traditional" tune. It's also become quite thoroughly folk-processed. This version on thesession.org is noticeably different from the versions I've heard over the years, not least in having some G#'s, which aren't to be found on the highland pipes. I first heard the tune from William Pint and Felicia Dale in a late night session at Mystic Seaport's annual Sea Music Festival, and that prompted me to buy their casette (now a CD?) "Port of Dreams", which I think is a wonderful recording all round, even without concertina. Their arrangement of "The Clumsy Lover" is so wonderful (IMO) that I didn't even realize it was a pipe tune until one night at a New Haven (Connecticut, USA) contra dance, when Dougie Pincock played it on the highland pipes. (Highland pipes for a contra dance?! I would have been dubious if I hadn't been there, but it was some of the best dancing music I've ever experienced! ) Then I went back to the tune, and... yes, it's a myxolydian tune, with a range of just one note more than an octave. I find that The Battlefield Band, with Dougie Pincock in the lineup has recorded "The Clumsy Lover" on their "ON THE RISE" album. I don't have that one, but now I think I should get it. By the way, I think it's usually played in A-myxolydian in sessions, which is the perfect key for whistles and pipes in D, and Scots pipers would notate it in "A", but their A is essentially the same as a modern concert Bb, and I remember one Irish accordion player who played it in Bb, because she had learned it from a piper. One closing comment: I think that "properly", the tune is a slow reel, not a hornpipe, though it is also a fine tune if played in a hornpipe's bouncy, dotted rhythm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pam B Posted July 8, 2005 Share Posted July 8, 2005 You can also find a fast version on Niall Valley's "Beyond Words" CD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darcybethd Posted July 25, 2005 Author Share Posted July 25, 2005 (edited) Thanks to everyone for their help, as a former Highland Dancer this tune is very familiar to me and I just wanted to see if I could play it myself! Thanks! Edited July 25, 2005 by darcybethd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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