Tunes

With so many different types of pipes in different keys and players from different musical backgrounds, sometimes it can be tricky to think of what to play when pipers get together for a tune. Some suggestions are listed below. The dots can be readily found on the Internet on sites such as The Session or JC's ABC Tune Finder.

Scottish tunes

Believe me if all those Endearing Young Charms (aka My Lodging is on the Cold Ground)

The Brolum

Calliope House

Cameron Highlanders (aka Cameron Quickstep)

Coulter's Candy

Crossing the Minch

Dinkey's (aka Dinkie Dorian's)

Donald MacLean's Farewell to Oban

The Duck

Fingal's Weeping

The High Drive

Irene Meldrum's welcome to Bon Accord

Mairi's Wedding (aka The Lewis Bridal Song)

Major Campbell Graham MBE

Miss Menzies of Culdare

My Home Town

Old Bean Waltz

The Oyster Wife's Rant (aka Am Muileann Dubh or The Black Mill)

The Scotsaire Hornpipe - International Collection Book 1

The Rock & The Wee Pickle Tow (aka O'Sullivan's March)

Sands of Loch Bee (aka The Shores of Loch Bee or The Road to Gerinish) - Cabar Feidh Collection

Song of the Solway Sands - J. Agnew (30 Years of LBPS Tunes)

The Sound of Sleat

South Georgia Whaling Song

Tam Bain's Lum

Tailor I was seeking and a Piper I found, A

The Thief of Lochaber

Setting a Course for Lewis (aka Togail curs air Leodhas)

The Train Journey North

Wee Michael's March

Irish tunes

The Ass in the Graveyard

Come by the Hills (aka Buachaill ón Éirne)

The Flowers of Red Hill

The Foggy Dew

For Ireland I'd Not Tell Her Name (aka ‘Ar Éirinn Ni ‘Neosfainn Ce Hi)

The Foxhunter (reel)

Fraher's Jig

Frieze Breeches (aka Friar's Britches or Cunla)

Garrett Barry's Jig

The Geese in the Bog

Going to the Well for Water

The Green Groves of Erin

Hag at the Churn

Hag at the Kiln (aka Dinny Delaney's)

The Humours of Ballyloughlin

John Kelly's (slide)

The Lark in the Morning

Lonach Lasses (aka Jenny Lind)

The Maid in the Cherry Tree

March of the Kind of Laois

Merrily Kissed the Quaker's Wife

Miss McLeod's (aka Mrs MacLeod of Raasay)

Morrison's (jig)

The Mountains of Pomeroy

Nora Crionna

O'Keefe's (slide)

The Old Bush

Old Hag, you have Killed Me

Sliabh Russell (aka Slieve Russell)

Snug in the Blanket

The Tar Road to Sligo

Walter Sammon's Grandmother

Boxwood tunes - Cape Breton style & others

Argeers (aka Wedding Night) - from Playford

Atholl Highlanders' Farewell to Loch Katrine

Blair Drummond

Branle d'Ecosse (aka Scottish Brawl)

Captain Campbell

Captain Carswell

Daniels Harbour Breakdown

Haughs of Cromdale

Jolly Lads

Lady Erskine

Mary MacDonald (strathspey)

Miss (Sarah) Drummond of Perth (aka Calum Crubach)

North Highland Dance - from Patrick McDonald Collection

Old Sir Symon the King

Reel of Tulloch - from the playing of Mary MacDonald

Sandy Cameron

Sound of Mull

Below are some suggested tunes for playing on uilleann pipes and Scottish smallpipes. The first 13 tunes are from a list compiled at the Castlemaine Weekend 2012 as the pipers sat together and discovered which tunes they knew in common. There are two documents containing tunes especially for playing on Scottish smallpipes, compiled by Geoff Jones. O'Rourke's Reel and The Wild Irishman were taught to workshop participants present at the Ross Ainslie and Jarlath Henderson evening of piping in March 2015. These tunes can begin to form a common repertoire amongst pipers, or simply a list of suggested tunes for those wondering which tunes to learn next.