Paddy Fahy, fiddle player and renowned composer of tradition Irish tunes has passed away at the age of 102.
RIP
https://youtu.be/y-i6h35CAH0
Paddy Fahy, fiddle player and renowned composer of tradition Irish tunes has passed away at the age of 102.
RIP
https://youtu.be/y-i6h35CAH0
Wow, 102! Love, love, love his fiddle tunes. RIP Paddy.
Saw this last night, Brian Conway posted the news. Amazing composer. He'll be sorely missed.
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Sad to hear this news - we've lost so many of the greats in recent years.
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I posted this link (posted by someone else earlier) on thesession.org, it's a field recording of Paddy Fahy in his home, playing tunes from 1972, a mix of his own and other tunes:
http://www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/coc...rim_JH24-2.htm
Here's a PDF compilation of his tunes by Maria Holohan:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1o7U...2JV-uMzII/view
With his own compositions, you can hear his genius in composing tunes that can't be pinned down to a major or minor sound. He liked playing games with Cnats and C# in the same tune.
You have to get used to the way they're all called "Paddy Fahy's." I think it was Kevin Burke that said about him, that it was a great way to be remembered -- not to name your tunes, but just be remembered by the composer.
Makes it a little tough on those who learn these tunes, but at least we get to have fun with the running joke in sessions... "What's that tune?" "It's Paddy Fahy's"... Oh, right!
I remember hearing the Kane sisters in concert and i think the only tunes they played -- for, what 90 minutes? -- were all named "paddy fahey's"
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1920 Lyon & Healy bowlback
1923 Gibson A-1 snakehead
1952 Strad-o-lin
1983 Giannini ABSM1 bandolim
2009 Giannini GBSM3 bandolim
2011 Eastman MD305
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