
While refamiliarizing myself with some of the fantasy instrument patches in some of the libraries I've owned, I came across a very pleasant lead accordion in Albion's Solstice, and set it as the lead in a pair of Manx tunes; Ushag Veg Ruy (Little Red Bird) and Arrane Ghelby, also known as Song Of Dalby, or Song Of The Kelpie, which has a nicely mysterious folk origin as to where the tune originated:
"In the long ago a curiously shaped boat would be seen at the close of a summer evening coming from Bradda towards Dalby. In the boat sat an old man with long white hair, who rowed until off Niarbyl Point; there he rested on his oars and sang this melody, which runs up and down the minor scale with the lilt of the waves. And as the thing became known, the people would come and stay on the shore to listen to his music, for it was very sweet to them; but his boat was far off, and no words could be distinguished. When the old man had made an end of the song, he rowed south-westward till he was seen no more. And no one knew whence he came, nor whither he went, nor who he was, but the people of Dalby knew his song and taught it to their children’s children."
A few folk instrument pads and swells help to give this the feel of standing on the shore, watching the ebb of the waves.
"In the long ago a curiously shaped boat would be seen at the close of a summer evening coming from Bradda towards Dalby. In the boat sat an old man with long white hair, who rowed until off Niarbyl Point; there he rested on his oars and sang this melody, which runs up and down the minor scale with the lilt of the waves. And as the thing became known, the people would come and stay on the shore to listen to his music, for it was very sweet to them; but his boat was far off, and no words could be distinguished. When the old man had made an end of the song, he rowed south-westward till he was seen no more. And no one knew whence he came, nor whither he went, nor who he was, but the people of Dalby knew his song and taught it to their children’s children."
A few folk instrument pads and swells help to give this the feel of standing on the shore, watching the ebb of the waves.
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