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Tune ID#1290 (Pinch of Snuff)

These two bars were transcribed by me from how this tune was played – the first time through – on the recording TP 2 (details in the Discography below).

Basic musical information on this tune.
Rhythm ?	Bars	8-bar phrase structure	Mode ?
Reel	24	ABC	D Major

Basic musical information on this tune.

Rhythm ?

Bars

8-bar phrase structure

Mode ?

Reel

ABC

D Major

Titles ? given to this tune in the sources listed below (plus notes of mine about this tune):

Pinch of Snuff, The / An Pinsín Snaoisín / The Humours of Swanlinbar (3rd in set Ships Are Sailing on EI 2) (1st 2 parts sometimes played an octave higher; setting on DubMMe reverses 2nd and 3rd parts) (compare 1st 2 parts with Pinch of Snuff #1583 and with parts of Mil na Maidí #7627; compare parts 1 and 3 with parts 2 and 1 of Pinch of Snuff #3242; compare 1st part with 1st part of Four Courts No. 2 #2469; compare 1st part with 3rd part, 2nd part with 12th part, and 4th part with 6th part of Wise Maid #8044)

Discography

Here are all recordings of this tune considering only the indexed recordings. I have discovered by careful listening that these sources are in fact musically the same tune, regardless of the tune titles they use, key changes, retuning, etc.

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Year Recorded	Track #Tune?	[Album code] Artist. Title (Link to Album Info page). Performers (instruments).
1953	12#1	[FCssdy] Frank Cassidy. Níl Gar Ann! Frank Cassidy (fiddle). For this tune: with John Doherty (fiddle).
1953	3#1	[FCssdy] Frank Cassidy. Níl Gar Ann! Frank Cassidy (fiddle).
~1976	1#2	[TP 2] Tommy Peoples and Paul Brady. The High Part of the Road. Tommy Peoples (fiddle), Paul Brady (guitar).
1991	9#1	[FS] Fiddle Sticks. Irish Traditional Music from Donegal. Ciaran Tourish, Dermot McLaughlin, Séamus Glackin, Kevin Glackin.
1995	6#3	[EI 2] Eileen Ivers. Wild Blue. Eileen Ivers (fiddle), John Doyle (guitar), Tom 'T-Bone' Wolk (organ, accordion, guitar, bass), Ben Wittman (drums), Kimati Dinizulu (percussion). For this tune: with Seamus Egan (flute).
~1995	14#4	[Arc 2] Arcady. Many Happy Returns. Johnny McDonagh (bones, bodhrán, triangle), Nicholas Quemener (guitar, flute, whistle, vocals), Patsy Broderick (piano, keyboards), Conor Keane (accordion), Brendan Larrissey (fiddle), Niamh Parsons (vocals).
2006	10#2	[Boys 23] Boys of the Lough. Midwinter Live. Cathal McConnell (flute, whistle, vocals), Dave Richardson (concertina, mandolin, cittern), Brendan Begley (accordion, melodeon, vocals), Malcolm Stitt (guitar), Kevin Henderson (fiddle). For this tune: Cathal (whistles).
2007	5#5	[AbsIr] Absolutely Irish. Eileen Ivers (fiddle), Seamus Egan (flute).
~2009	8#2	[DubMMe] Liam O'Connor and Seán McKeon. Dublin Made Me. Liam O'Connor (fiddle, viola), Seán McKeon (pipes). For this tune: Séan (pipes).
2019	1#1	[Fdl 4] Fidil. Decade. Aidan O'Donnell (fiddle), Ciarán Ó Maonaigh (fiddle), Damien McGeehan (fiddle).

Played after	On Albums
Oak Tree	TP 2
The Green Hills of Tyrol	EI 2
Lord McDonald's	Arc 2
Blarney Pilgrim	Boys 23
Fermoy Lasses	AbsIr
Reel with the Birl	DubMMe

Played after

On Albums

Oak Tree

TP 2

The Green Hills of Tyrol

EI 2

Arc 2

Boys 23

AbsIr

DubMMe

Played before	On Albums
Wild Irishman	FS, Fdl 4
Ships Are Sailing	EI 2
Foxhunter's Reel	Boys 23

Played before

On Albums

Wild Irishman

FS, Fdl 4

Ships Are Sailing

EI 2

Foxhunter's Reel

Boys 23

Bibliography

Here are all transcriptions of this tune considering only the indexed books, listed in chronological order. I have discovered by careful comparison that these are musical matches to this tune as played on the recordings listed above.

Listing of published transcriptions of this tune.
As tune #182 in [CRE 2] Breandán Breathnach. Ceol Rince na hÉireann 2. [available]

If you are considering using the above transcriptions to help you learn this tune, I invite you to check these practical Tips for Learning Irish Traditional Music. See also: So why do you bother indexing books and abc?

Tune ID#1290 (Pinch of Snuff)

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