The Glasgow Reel

Hello!
This is the second part from last week's blog. It's St Andrews Day, so here's a Scottish tune for you. I learnt this as a request for teaching at a Halsway weekend and it became a firm favourite. It has lots of names - Tam Lin and The Glasgow Reel being the two I know it by. It was written by Davey Arthur and there are lots and lots of different versions. This is the one I play and probably isn't the original, but this one works really nicely on the harpa.
Enjoy!
:))
Vicki

Tourdion in D minor

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This week it's Moraharpa week. So I chose to play Tourdion. It's a very popular medieval French tune. Easy enough on the nyckelharpa, but slightly trickier on the Moraharpa. I play this in D minor on the Moraharpa.
If you want to play this in E minor - then Click Here!
Enjoy!
:))
Vicki

Perry the Partridge

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Today is the start of my March course at the wonderful Halsway Manor down in Somerset. I pretty much always start my beginners off with this tune. It's a canon, so every two bars the next player starts. It'll bound to be played over the weekend. Here's a photo to show how special this place is! I'll post more pictures over the
weekend!

I've now added an update to this page - Sad Perry the Partridge in the minor key.
:))
Vicki

Sad Perry the Partridge

När Juldagsmorgon Glimmar

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On this last Friday before Christmas I have my final #Christmas #nyckelharpa #tunefriday. När juldagsmorgon glimmar.  Enjoy!
:))
Vicki

Cuckolds All in a Row

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This week we have Cuckolds All in a Row, a great little Playford Dance tune.

Enjoy!

:))

Vicki

Gathering Peasecods

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It's another Playford tune this week. Gathering Peascods. Another great tune and also a great dance.
Enjoy
:)
Vicki

Nobody's Jig

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This week we have a tune from the Playford Dancing Master - Nobody's Jig.
A great tune and a great dance!
Enjoy.
:)
Vicki

Election Woes

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I'm generally not a particularly political type of person, but I always make sure I get out there and vote. Recent political developments though have been really upsetting and today felt like the right day to get this tune out there and into the nyckelharpa world. It wouldn't be my first choice of tune name, but I guess John was even more upset by todays politics than me.

The only political message here is - whoever you vote for, just get out and vote!!

A cracking little tune called "F**k the Tories" written by the wonderful John Spiers.  It could have been written for the nyckelharpa it fitted so well under the fingers! I usually try to stick to traditional or self written tunes, but this one just had to be played.
:)
Vicki

Keep the Home Fires Burning

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As soon as I spotted the date of this #tunefriday I knew I had to do something special. So here is Keep the Home Fires Burning for Nyckelharpa quartet.
So I got the Fnyka Ensemble in specially for this one off performance.
Enjoy!
:)
Vicki