I have this set as the last track on “A Treasury of Irish Music 2” which is a better CD than the dull title would suggest.
Eoin Duignan plays it on a low whistle, I think a G or maybe F, and it has a really haunting, otherworldly feel from the start.
Anyways, through listening to it a gazillion times, and lip-whistling the tunes constantly at work until I drive my colleagues crazy, I have over the last week got the notes under my fingers on a D whistle. No sheetmusic, no special slowing down software, just drumming the tune into my lame brain until I can’t stop hearing it.
Now if I practise at every spare moment, I hope to have my fingers over the notes by Sunday afternoon, so I can pull it out of the hat at the Porterhouse for my Tutor’s last week before he goes off to live in France.
If I can pull it off, I can’t wait to see the look on his face!