This is a Shetland fiddle tune, more often played there in A, but I found it in G in the Northumbrian Pipers' Tune Book after hearing a Northumbrian player do it that way. (Shetland and Northumbrian music are often linked).
Which partly answers the main question I had in putting this bunch of tunes together. I was looking for a subgenre of tunes that would naturally match the D 10-hole range - and they're hiding inside the Northumbrian pipe repertoire. There's a historical reason for that. The original keyless Northumbrian pipe had a range of an octave from G - this is what the Peacock tune book I recently uploaded uses. But later in the 19th century, keywork extended the range both upwards and downwards, to match the D to b range of the tin whistle (or Robert's DAD ocarina). And the process seems to have been uneven, as if partially extended chanters coexisted with simple ones and the most developed versions. Hurlock's Reel fits a phase in the evolution where the extension only went downwards. Look through Northumbrian pipe tune books and you will find a lot more like this (as well as tunes which only extend the G octave range upwards). So this gives you a place to look where you will have a better than random chance of finding something playable straight off the page.
Style: Northumbrian pipes play staccato. You do NOT link melody notes with Irish-style gracenotes.
Edited 07-Jul-2026 03:47 PM by Jack Campin.