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from Hammy Hamilton Compositions
The second tune is the Kerfeunteun, and is the first tune that I ever thought of having composed myself. It’s a strange name and it has often been corrupted into the Kerfunken jig for some reason, but Kerfeunteun is actually a suburb of Quimper, in Brittany, France and translates as Fountainstown. I was teaching a workshop there in the mid-80s and I was mucking about on the whistle with the guitar player who was teaching there as well, and this tune came out and it stuck in my head. People seemed to like it and they have taken it up.
