“The Golden Keyboard” is great reel composed by accordion player Martin Mulhaire from East Galway. I associate this tune with my good friend Kevin Finucane, a fine fiddle player who lives in Ruan, near Ennis, and one of the nicest man you could meet.
X:1
T:Golden Keyboard, The
R:reel
C:Martin Mulhaire
M:4/4
K:Edor
BGEF GFGA|B2gB fBeB|BGEF G2AG|(3FED AD BDAF|
~E3F ~G3A|B2gB fBec|d2dc dBAF|DFAF GEE2:|
|:B~e3 B~e3|Beef edBc|d~A3 f~A3|dfec dBAF|
~E3F GFGA|B2gB fBec|d2dc dBAF|DFAF GEE2:|
I learned “The Hunter’s Purse” from Adam & Dave Shapiro’s CD “Cape To Clare”. Adam & Dave are two brothers from South Africa, who came to Ireland for the music and based themselves around Doolin. Adam is the fiddle player with “Fiddle Case” and still lives in the area and it is always a great pleasure to meet him for tunes!
“The Horsehoe” is a jig I learned from my friend JB Samzun (fiddle). JB learned it from John Joe Tuttle who told him it came from the playing of Patsy Geary, who had no name for it. He taught the tune to John Kelly Senior, who called it after his shop on Capel Street in Dublin, and the name stuck ever since.
I learned “Gorman’s Reel” from my friend Johannes, a a great flute player from Switzerland, during the Willie Clancy week in Miltown Malbay. It is also known as “Throw Away The Keys”.
