- Style
- Celtic
- Tradition
- Irish, from the Scottish 'Caber Féidh'
- Form
- Reel
- Key
- D Mixolydian
- Level
- 4
- Played on
- Fiddle and Mandolin
In the public domain. Source
Music
100bpm
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Chord chart
History
Most players and collectors take the tune to be Scottish in origin. Robert Bremner printed it in 1768 as "Caper Fey," an English spelling of the Gaelic "Caber Féidh," the deer's antlers. Under the Irish name it appears in the manuscript of Mayo fiddler Philip Carolan, written around 1863 to 1873.
Francis O'Neill recorded the Chicago piper Patsy Touhey playing it on a cylinder in 1904. Sligo fiddlers Michael Coleman and James Morrison recorded it in New York, Coleman in two parts and Morrison in four. The C in the tune slides between natural and sharp, and James Morrison was noted for changing it from one pass to the next.