A post on the Playing Smallpipes Facebook group referencing the older television show Tales of Para Handy drew light on a 2-parted reel played on smallpipes in the second episode of the first season of the show. I opened the show on the freevee streaming service and for the first few seconds was convinced it was a neat arrangement of Kalabakan, but soon realized it was a completely different tune, and a pretty cool tune at that. So I set out to transcribe it! Here’s some audio from the episode of the tune and my transcription; let me know if you think I’ve made any errors. I’ve named it after the title of the episode, but perhaps someone knows who the composer or performer is or even the real title of the tune?

May’s tuneS of the month are compositions by a piper who visited me at my home during a tasting tour of Texas a month or so ago. We played some tunes together and he played some of his compositions (2/4 marches) for me and I figured you might like them as much as I did so he gave permission to share them here. I don’t have recordings, yet, as I have been getting over a cold. It seems a year in isolation has resulted in my body having no idea what a cold is and struggling to fight it off.

The compositions of Luis Jorge Vázquez Estrada < pdf