i having really never used crans that much in the music i play i was wondering if anyone knows and good peices with lots or some crans you can add.
Listen to piping to hear good crans.
http://chiffboard.mati.ca/viewtopic.php?t=2056
And if you are having trouble, try this:
The Golden Ring (6-part jig) is the classic cran piece. You hear it mostly with pipers, but Matt Molloy started a tradition of doing it on the flute.
Cranns are not very hard, really. They’re like a roll where you do 2 cuts instead of a cut and a tap. Basically, play a D and cut quickly with your first and second fingers. You can do it on the second octave D also, and there you get 2 different cranns depending on if you leave the first finger of the left hand up or donw.
Reels:
Jenny’s Wedding
Toss the Feathers (the D mixolydian version)
Sporting Nell
The Bucks of Oranmore (2nd part)
The Trip to Durrow (1st part)
Farrell O Gara
The College Groves
The Pure Drop/Hand Me Down the Tackle
The Glen Road to Carrick
The Nine Points of Roguery/The Black Mare of Fanad
Miss Monaghan
The Flax in Bloom
Dowd’s #9
Jigs/slips/singles
Fraher’s
The Pipe on the Hob (2 part D version, not the 3 part A dorian version)
The Southwest Wind
Doctor O’Neill
An Phis Fliuch
I Buried My Wife and Danced on Top of Her
The Queen of the Rushes (in D mixolydian, not the more usual G mix setting)
The Wandering Minstrel
The Trip to Athlone
The Gold Ring
The Yellow Wattle
I find I don’t play them much in hornpipes or set dances, but it can certainly be done. It’s best not to overuse them, they lose their effect if you play them too much.
Not much, but the Fairy Queen hornpipe has the repeat Ds in the first bar, that usually have to be cranned.
LOL!! As if I needed another opportunity to show how little I know about music, I clicked on this thread thinking, “I know Cranberry’s a prolific poster, but to have an entire thread dedicated to you???” 
Little John
Cranberry needs an entire world dedicated to Cranberry, but that’s another matter. 
Pat, I like your list of cranny tunes. Like that you start the jig list with Fraher, that is the ultimate cran tune, imho. I would add the Blarney Pilgrim, too.
About Matt Molloy (who pops up in ever discussion of crans, it seems). Contrary to popular belief, he was not the first to take crans from the piping repertoir. Willie Clancy was doing crans on whistle before Molloy started using them on the flute.
Just to be a nitpicky humorless ectomorph: The word is properly ‘crann’, with 2 Ns, as Gaeilge. Of course spelling can be far too overrated, but I just wanted to stick my nose in and be prissy. Thank you.
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Quote @ Bloomfield
Cranberry needs an entire world dedicated to Cranberry, but that’s another matter. >
I would be very offended if that wasn’t true.
Fisherstreet does some great cranning on their album “Out in the Night”.
BTW: this is a killer album, anyone else have it?
PC
PS–I’m out to busk for my evening’s beer, wish me luck! 
Yeah. I saw that as I read through the post. 'Course, I didn’t name the thread, so I can’t help you there, Nan … or is it Nann?
Little John
The Nitpicky humorless sarcastic ectomorph
…and a goodhearted 
to you, littlejohngael!
Thanks, Bloo’. I knew there was at least one chestnut tune I was overlooking in that list. Let me add a few more:
Banish Misfortune
The Spike Island Lasses
The Humors of Ballyloughlin aka The Hurler’s March (talk about a cranny tune…sheesh)
The Frieze Breeches
Sean Bui
Jimmy Ward’s
I have an old grandma called Shanny
Who plays her Ds always cranny
And when she’s in town
She plays sitting down
On Granny Shanny’s cranny fanny.
The Lonesome Jig aka The Rolling Waves
Crans aren’t just for D’s either, I cran E’s & rarely roll them. Early on I got all my ornaments from a good U-piper. I see lot’s of people roll the E like
XXX XX0
XXX X00
XXX XX0
XXX X00
XXX XX0
I think that sounds weak, usually the rhyhm is botched too - It’s hard to kep the rhythm right when your cutting & tapping with the same hand. I usually do it like this
XXX XX0
XX0 XX0
XXX XX0
XXX XXX
XXX XX0
It’s poppier more rhythmic. Those low notes are fudgey & quiet enough as it is on a whistle, they need all the help they can get.
Oh yeah, "The Maid at the Spinning Wheel’ is a cracker for crans, also each part gets harder as it goes along.
Brad, I think you’ve got a typo in the tap for the first example of the roll (second to last line should be xxx xxx).
I agree about the cut on the E roll. I think the rule (there are excptions, of course) is that you want to leave the lowest finger down on the cut. Outside that, in the lower octave, it does matter much which finger you use, and I will often cut the E with L2 (xox xxo). On the whistle in the second octave, though, I try to keep the cutting finger as close to the note-finger as possible, and there I’ll usually cut the high e with R1 (xxx oxo).
I rarely use crans because I follow the advice that no cran is better than a bad cran, but when I do crann the E, I will use L1 and L2, usually:
xxx xxo
xox xxo
xxx xxo
oxx xxo
xxx xxo
xox xxo
xxx xxo
somthing like that.
I used to crann the Es too (it’s easier than rolling them) but then i became very fond of the E rolls, and now i almost never crann the Es anymore.
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A lot of peops cut just about everything with the “A”, I like the sound myself. I cran with the right hand index & middle proceded by a cut with the “A” (how bomb-diddley-astic of me). It doesn’t really matter as long as your disrupting the flow enough to break it up.