Big Pat

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 BIG PAT'S (DANDY) REEL. AKA and see "Tie the Ribbons [1]," "Trim the Bonnet," "Jimmy the Creelmaker," "Salamanca [3]," "The Pigeon House," "The Dandy Reel," "The Hills of Clady," "The Clady Reel," "O'Connell's Trip to Parliament [2]." Irish, Reel; New England, Hornpipe. E Minor (O'Neill): B Minor (Tolman). Standard tuning. AB (O'Neill/1850): AABB' (O'Neill/Krassen): AABB (Tolman). Source for notated version: Francis O'Neill learned the tune from an accomplished West Clare flute player (and Chicago police patrolman) named Patrick "Big Pat" O'Mahony, a man of prodigious physique of whom he said: "1/4the 'swing' of his execution was perfect, but instead of 'beating time' with his foot on the floor like most musicians he was never so much at ease as when seated in a chair tilted back against a wall, while both feet swung rhythmically like a double pendulum" [O'Neill, Irish Folk Music]. "Big Pat" was the source for several tunes in the O'Neill, including "Out on the Ocean," "The Fisherman's Widow" (AKA "The Rambling Pitchfork"), and the hornpipe "Bantry Bay." Printed source: O'Neill (Krassen), 1976; p. 94. O'Neill (Music of Ireland: 1850 Melodies), 1979; No. 1192, p. 225. Tolman (Nelson Music Collection), 1969; p. 16 (appears as "Big Pat," a hornpipe). X:1 T:Big Pat's Reel M:C| L:1/8 R:Reel K:G (dc)|BGEF G2(BG)|G2(BG) (FA)D2|BGEFG2(Bd)|g2(fg)e2(dc)|BGEFG2(BG)| G2(BG)(FA)D2|BGEF GAB^d|egfge2||(ef)|gfga bgag|(fa)ag (fd) dz| gfga bgag|fe^dfe2(ef)|gfga bgag|(fa)ag (fd) dz|g2(ge)f2(fd)|egfge2||

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