Music
Here are some of the tunes we enjoy playing, chosen to be mostly suitable for newer pipers. All tunes are in .pdf format, so you can save or print them. There may be plans afoot to include audio of some kind to go with them; we'll add updates as we get round to it. If you've got any corrections/requests/comments/&c then please let Penny know.
First off, here's a fingering chart for the uilleann pipes chanter.
Songs/Airs:
Marches:
Polkas:
Slip jigs:
Double jigs:
- Bobby Gardner's
- The Forgotten Lesson
- Fraher's
- The Gander in the Pratie Hole
- Garrett Barry's
- Jackson's Frieze Coat
- Jim Ward's
- Out On The Ocean
- The Road To Decoto (Forgive me for including one of my own compositions, but it's a nice simple piping tune.)
- Rolling Wave, aka The Humours Of Trim
- Sean Bui
Hornpipes:
- Kim Vincent's
- The Stack Of Wheat
- I'm Not Fed Up With The Pacific Ocean (simplified version learned by Moe & Penny via Daniel Lapp; here's the non-pipe-friendly original version)
Reels:
There are many thousands of tunes in the Irish music/piping tradition. If you're thirsty for more tunes, here are some online resources that should keep you busy for a while:
Also consider buying a copy of John Walsh's Collection Of Pipe-Friendly Tunes.
last updated Nov 2019