Trio Rat

Trio Rat are :-

• Richard Robinson (clarinet)
• Andy Hornby (mandolin, octave mandolin, whistles)
• Tony Cook (guitar, and song)

These are excerpts from our demo CD. They are home-made recordings - this is a new band. One day we'll get some paid gigs and be able to afford the studio time to make professional-quality recordings, but in the meanwhile these give an idea of what we can do. If you think you might like to give us a booking and would like to hear this in proper quality, email me and I'll send a CD (please, serious possibilities only, they cost us money to send out)

• Minuet, from Rasmus Storm's Notebook.
  Rasmus Storm was an eighteenth-century Danish fiddler. He wrote a lot of tunes down, and his collection was re-discovered a few years ago.
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• 2 Schottisches.
  The first is really a reinländer, from Ringnes, in Norway. I think the 2nd is Swedish.
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• Andy Hornby's weird tunes (Andy Hornby).
  Young Andrew's Gallop, Timely Consent, Herald of Bores.
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• The New Dresser (Andy Hornby).
  A tune named after a piece of furniture. There aren't a lot of those about, you know. Recorded live at the Lancaster Clocks Back Festival, October '98
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• Sher.
  A tune from Morocco. I know nothing, I learnt it in a pub in Leeds. Recorded live as above - isn't it nice when the audience do the work for you ?
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• Pay the Piper / Pat's Rag (Andy Hornby / Tony Cooke).
  A tune that Andy made for a bagpiping friend, and one of Tony's.
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