Here's a nice tune which shouldn't hut the fingers too much. I'm not so sure about the audial appendages.

Here's another Paddy Taylor reel. I never know the difference in this tune between C naturals / C sharps, the first part / the last part or how it goes / doesn't go.

It's a bit like the trouble I have with semi-colons / commas / -s and so on; I hope this version isn't too much of a Cat astrophe.

Sorry there's no picture with this one.  I did try.

Here's popular reel.  I've played it double here but it might really be single.  There was rain forecast today and I think I'm getting into Noah's Ark mode, not that two heifers would save the breed, or would they?  I'm not a vet.

Maybe this reel will be renamed "The Stiletto in the Ghetto" or "The Stiffey By the Liffey" in honour of the one in the picture.  It probably already has.  I'm usually a few years behind the times.

I think the tune is also called John Brennan's Reel.

Here's a tune from the playing of the late Mickey and Francie Byrne from Kilcar in Donegal. I think the name comes from the Irish "Ríl na nGlórtha" meaning "The Reel of the Voices", rather than from its own, undeniably splendid qualities.

It's great on the fiddle as the second part gives plenty of scope for growling - The Growly Reel. You can sort of hum while playing the flute to get a drone effect but that's really, or ought to be, a private activity.

(This is as close as I remember it, Brendan)

I have a tape of the Donegal fiddle player, Vincent Campbell, playing this highland. On the tape e says he got it from Mickey Doherty and that Mickey Doherty called it "The Iron Man".  He did, however cast some doubt on the reliability of Mr' Doherty's tune names.

I'm starting to have to rattle my way past my skeletons and hoik out tapes in order to remind myself of tunes.  I might be saved by running out of storage space on the server at some stage but in the meantime I keep on rattling.

I have a tape of the Donegal fiddle player, Vincent Campbell, playing this highland. On the tape e says he got it from Mickey Doherty and that Mickey Doherty called it "The Iron Man".  He did, however cast some doubt on the reliability of Mr' Doherty's tune names.

I'm starting to have to rattle my way past my skeletons and hoik out tapes in order to remind myself of tunes.  I might be saved by running out of storage space on the server at some stage but in the meantime I keep on rattling.

Here's another Paddy Taylor reel. I never know the difference in this tune between C naturals / C sharps, the first part / the last part or how it goes / doesn't go.

It's a bit like the trouble I have with semi-colons / commas / -s and so on; I hope this version isn't too much of a Cat astrophe.

I'm sure this one is actually le hAinm but I can't remember the name. It's on a very popular record - Noel Hill & Tony Linnane's LP. I've lost this record so I can't get the name of the tune. If someone can remember the name, please let me know and I'll update the title here.

I've 2 suggestions now for the name. Is it now "Kitty's Wedding to Joe Cooley"?

... Joe Cooley seems to be in the lead at the moment.