{"id":4753,"date":"2024-12-18T13:07:18","date_gmt":"2024-12-18T18:07:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/?p=4753"},"modified":"2026-05-15T15:21:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T20:21:13","slug":"december-2024-tune-of-the-month-para-handy-poacher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/?p=4753","title":{"rendered":"December 2024 Tune of the Month: Para Handy, Poacher, Chase the Puffer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;s some audio from the episode of the tune and my transcription; let me know if you think I&#8217;ve made any errors. <s>I&#8217;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?<\/s> Lorne MacDougall tells me the name of the tune is Chase the Puffer and it was written by Phil Cunningham for the show. Thanks Lorne!<\/p>\r\n\r\n<div data-wp-interactive=\"core\/file\" class=\"wp-block-file\"><a href=\"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/para-handy-poacher-chase-the-puffer.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Chase the Puffer Sheet Music PDF<\/a><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio src=\"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/para-handy-poacher.mp3\" controls=\"controls\"><\/audio><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-31a69873-4e71-48b9-902d-4f3a694dfcb6\" href=\"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/para-handy-poacher.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">Para Handy, Poacher, Chase the Puffer MP3<\/a><\/div>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/?p=4753\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">December 2024 Tune of the Month: Para Handy, Poacher, Chase the Puffer<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tune-of-the-month"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4753"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4803,"href":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4753\/revisions\/4803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}