Here's a tune which just occurred to me.  I think it's usually associated with pipers (Leo Rowsome's name springs to mind for some reason) but It's handy enough on the flute.  It should be a common enough tune in sessions as well.  I hope it's OK.

Here's another common tune, again one which is well suited to the flute.

Here's a very common tune which is popular with people starting to learn the flute.  It's got a good melody for playing around with.

Here's a very common tune which is popular with people starting to learn the flute.  It's got a good melody for playing around with.

Here's a jig which is very popular with flute players all over Ireland.  I hope someone out there likes it too, whether they be in Ireland or elsewhere.

Another reel. Sorry sorry sorry.  My memory is faulty and can only remember reels at the moment.  It's getting harder to know whenever you're within a mile of Dublin these days.  It's getting to the stage when Dublin is within a mile of all of us.  Bye for now.

Here's a fairly common tune called something or other. It gets "Dang" or "Bang" between Jenny and the tapistrator. I'm neither sure about what happened between Jenny and the weaver, nor about what the proper term for a maker of tapestries might be.

It's a nice tune anyway, I hope.

I think it might be on a Bothy Band record somewhere.

Here's a reel (I'm sorry about so many reels) from Donegal. I heard it on a tape of Francie Byrne from Kilcar. I'll probably run out of tunes quite soon. It's easy enough to know a tune when other people start them but trying to conjure them up while looking at a computer is a bit of a challenge. If anyone has any tunes in mind which they would like to hear played on the flute, please please let me know. Idir an dá linn, bainigí sult as an cheol agus bígí ag seinm ar bhur bhfeadóga móra.

Today isn't one here, buíochas le Dia! This reel is nicer than the weather it describes.  It's worth digging out a recording of Séamus Ennis playing this tune.  In the meantime, here's a flute version to be getting along with.

I think this tune was made up by box and fiddle player Finbar Dwyer. It has a fiddly G sharp in the first part but is good therapy. Just to prove the point about the G sharp, I've made a mess of it myself in a couple of places. Please don't feel obliged to learn the messes.

(24/04/07  - Just played this one again after hearing the state of the last try.  The messes are still there but I've moved them around a bit.)