Gan Ainm (33) - a polka in D Major tabbed for mandolin and played by Aidan Crossey

13 June 2024. *STOP PRESS* In addition to buying my tunebooks (see below) and making donations via my website, there are now two further options to support my endeavours. I have released an album of 12 home-recorded tracks via Bandcamp called "The Hard Mile". Available to buy at aidancrossey.bandcamp.com/alb... . I have also made available an album of demo recordings of my Ceol Dorcha project at Bandcamp. The album is called "Dark Nyah"; £5.00 for 14 tracks. Go to ceoldorcha.bandcamp.com/album... for further details. Thank you. Aidan
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When a tune appears here for the first time, the sound file sticks pretty closely to the dots and tablature "script". Revisited videos may deviate a little because in the intervening period I may have begun to play the tune a little differently. That's the way with this music. Our personal playing styles and our approaches to tunes develop over time.
Gan Ainm literally means “without a name”. There are a huge number of Irish tunes which have a gan ainm title. This doesn’t mean that the tune doesn’t have a name, or didn’t have a name. Sometimes the player from whom the tune was collected simply didn’t know/couldn’t recall the name. Or the person/group recording the tune didn’t know the name. And over the years, any connection back to contemporaries who might have known the name of the tune is lost and the tune is destined to exist without a handle for all eternity. Or so it would seem… But from time to time the name of a tune resurfaces - someone finds an old manuscript with a title given to the tune or someone finds a recording with a gan ainm tune and pipes up at a place like thesession.org to say that he/she knows the tune by a title of “x”. Occasionally someone will come across a gan ainm tune and give it an arbitrary title of their own making - and sometimes this arbitrary “made up” title will persist. The biggest challenge for me with gan ainm tunes is recording them in a collection at my website which is ordered alphabetically. Therefore when I publish any gan ainm tunes in this channel and my website, I’ll number them so as to keep them separate in the underlying website database. The number is meaningless other than for the purposes of ensuring that any links relate correctly to the relevant gan ainm tune.
Notated, tabbed for mandolin and played on his Belmuse EM-190 electric mandolin by Aidan Crossey. Browse my collection of archived tune learning materials at TheIrishMandolin.com - follow the link to "learn some tunes".
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