Here's a reel I was asked to play. My postings of late have been about as frequent as my blacksmith sightings, merry or otherwise, but being reminded of this tune at least stirred me into a brief flurry of activity. This particular tune is very suitable for the flute and provides ample opportunity for anvilesque hammering sounds on the D notes. On this occasion I seem to have let most of these opportunities slip by but at least it's nice to know that they will still be there the next time I try the tune.

Here's a common reel.  I thought I'd probably have played this one already but I didn't see it on the site.  Maybe I called it by another name ("don't kiss me Kate" perhaps).

I hope this version is OK.  My recall facility for tunes has been a bit vague lately.

I'm not really the right person to be playing this great composer's tunes but as I'm the one who happens to be nearest this computer, I'll have to do.  I've just called this No.1 to mark it out from any subsequent PF reels which I might play in future.

I'm not really the right person to be playing this great composer's tunes but as I'm the one who happens to be nearest this computer, I'll have to do.  I've just called this No.1 to mark it out from any subsequent PF reels which I might play in future.

This is yet another tardy response to a request to record a tune.  I'm delighted to be asked to play specific tunes as it saves me having to think them up for myself.

I had to look this one up on the internet as I didn't know it.  I hope my dot to note transfer has allowed the tune to arrive without being too scathed.

I think this tune is in B minor.  My bad spelling allows me to think of digging in the ground for stripy, stingy things (stingy as in needle-arsed rather than tight arsed) but that's neither here nor there in the context of this tune.

(Sorry for using the 'a' word).

Here's a fairly popular one, as are many enchanted things and persons.

Here's another tune I was asked for.  I've tried to oblige but I haven't quite got my sea legs.  I might have been better scuttling this attempt.

Here's another request.  I'm afraid I didn't recognise the name of the tune so I looked it up in www land.  It sort of sounds familiar; mouth organs spring to mind (if that's a thing they can do) and by the end of the tune I thought I maybe knew the start.  The version is at the mercy of whoever put it on the internet and whether he or she has the use of a reliable set of ears.

Here's a tune I was asked to play.  I'm sorry it took me so long getting round to it.  There are a few other tune requests that I'm currently in the process of taking even longer over.

I played a three part version at the end of this recording.  I've heard three parts from a few people, one being Paddy Canny.  My problem regerding part 3 may be that in fact Paddy can whereas I canny play it but I thought I'd try anyway.

I was asked to post this tune and am grateful to have been asked.  I don't know why I hadn't thought of it myself.  The setting here may be a bit dodgy but that may help to take the bad look off some of the other tunes I have played recently.

I have another reel which I've been asked to play but I think I'll need to excavate a particular tape recording before I can chance the second half of it.  I'm off now to look for a shovel.