Lunasa blew thru Nashville last eve. Their concert was a great success. I had the opportunity to first see them about 4 years ago. They were great then…superb now. Their music has really come together and is much tighter than it was 4 years ago. I suppose that’s what time will do to a great band. Cillian Vallely does some nice work integrating pipes into the arrangements. His rendition of “The Wounded Hussar” was tremendous. The Froment set sounded nice and the Koehler and Quinn C chanter sounded great as well. Cillian and I had a grand time having a mess-o-tunes together in a pub after. Great stuff. I’ve gotta study his technique as it is quite lovely what he accomplishes with some of his open styled approaches to alter the tonal quality of notes. I had not had a chance to play tunes with him before until the wee hrs of this morn. It was a real treat. Next step…to hire him to come do a mini-tionol (our third) in my home. Stay tuned… Lew
I’ve noticed this tune mentioned several times so I looked it up at session.org and the music has two flats (G Minor apparently). Is that the common version? I noticed somebody elso, on the ‘comments’ page also questioned the dots compared to Lunasa’s version.
Hi Ausdag, The Wounded Hussar is the on the NPU tutor video in volume two. The melody is rediculously simple to master.
Its a wonderfull tune to learn how to play regulators on. As there are many suttle tonal variations you can create by slyding notes. Much like you would by slyding notes on a chanter except you would roll your wriste against the note above (or below the regulator note being played) and only half open the key, while the current note being played; the key is fully open. I haven’t seen many pipers do this. Is there a reason for this?
Cheers Luke 
It was nice, a couple of years back, to have Cillian as an instructor at the Florida Tionol in 2004. Nice guy, great piper. Somebody requested Colonel Fraiser’s off him and he obliged… unbelieable! His fingers disappeared into a blurry haze. The Fromment set of his has some of the most powerful drones I have heard to date, you could literally feel them in your gut.
I am glad you got to have a few tunes with him Lewis, and I hope your mini-tionol will be a blast!
Jealous. Jealous. Jealous. 
(Glad for you! 
) Jealous. Jealous. Jealous!!!
Actually I too am a big fan of Cillian’s playing and buy every recording of his that I can find. I second the motion that he’s a heck of a nice guy and great teacher to boot!
Hi Luke, are you sure it’s Vol2? I have Vol 2 (Intermediate) and I can’t recall seeing it in the tune booklet. I’ll have anouther look.
Cheers,
DavidG
I’ve been playing it for years and have yet to put any G#'s in it 
Order of notes [learn it by ear]…slightly different to Cillian’s:
AGE2ABc~ BABd2BAGABg2be2dc~ABAGEA 3(BAG) A2 
ABc~BA 3(Bcd)d2 ABc~def# ge2 ABc~def#ga gf#ga2
ab highc a gf#g edc~ BAB -g-G2 ef#gagedc~ ABAG EA 3(BAG) A2
as played silently on my biro from memory just now
Cillian’s “Wounded Hussar” is very nice. The fact that a slow piece played solo on pipes is a crowd pleaser says a lot about his talent. Catherine McEvoy plays a wonderful setting too.
The Lúnasa boys are definitely a class act. For all of the flare in their arrangements, you don’t see it in their behavior. They are very generous and approachable both on and off stage.
I hope no lurkers from the “What Willie Said…” thread on the Flute Forum are too traumatized by my approval of an ensemble that uses rich harmonies and accompaniment.