My Latest Tune

Uilleann Pipes
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Miss Lyons (aka Over the Hill)

Download here:

http://home.iprimus.com.au/ausdag/misslyons.mp3

or here:

http://home.iprimus.com.au/ausdag/Sounds.htm

Cheers,

DavidG

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None of my sisters would be pleased the know that Miss Lyons is a.k.a Over the Hill!

:slight_smile: P.

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Nice work David! Certainly gives me a level to shoot for in my own playing.

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very nice david – inspiring :slight_smile: :slight_smile:

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Thanks John and Albert. I should clarify - it’s not ‘my latest tune’ meaning I wrote it, but the latest one that I recorded on my dinosaur computer (Gateway 400mhz Celeron 64mb :roll: )

I used to play it with my band as a set comprising a tune that I only know as ‘Little Pig Lamenting the Empty Trough’ followed by ‘Lucky in Love’ then ‘Over the Hill’.

Still, any advice is welcome, being an isolated piper and all I’m kind of plateauing out in terms of technique.

Cheers,

DavidG

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Very nice!

How are you recording your playing? When I record myself on my PC, the recording is so soft even with mic settings turned up high.

Dave Jones

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It’s funny, I had you in mind as I was posting the tune, wonder what your reaction would be to being equated with Over the Hill :laughing:

Cheers,

DavidG

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Heya David,

For some reason or another, I am unable to download the music from your site.

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Hi Dave,

I use my decrepit PC (Personal Computer, not Penny Chanter) and the decrepit mic that came with it. For software I use a freebie called ‘Audacity’ which you can get from http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

It’s a great little program, except on my PC it has the audacity :smiley: :roll: to not want to close when I click the ‘X’, it just disappears and then reappears until I shut down the system.

Give that a try. I can’t really suggest any reason why you don’t get good volume. I sit my mic only about 30cm from me pointing toward the area between the chanter and drones.

Good luck,

DavidG

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Hi Joseph…Both links? Hmm…that’s strange. Seems fine at my end. Have another go and let me knowhow you go.

Cheers,

DG

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It’s funny, I had you in mind as I was posting the tune, wonder what your reaction would be to being equated with Over the Hill > :laughing: >
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Hi David,

It’s not my reaction. It’s how my sisters (the Misses Lyons, well they were before one got married and the other became Ms Lyons) would react. But I won’t tell them!

Nice playing. I learned it years ago from Brendan Mulkere but I didn’t much care for it then. But I hadn’t heard it on the pipes before. Now I’ve changed my mind. Funny how that can happen with tunes.

All the best

:smiley: P.

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Thanks Patrick, I’ve come across more than a few tunes which don’t grab me too much but then when heard played on pipes seem to take on a new quality - Lord MacDonald being one of them, as played by Leo Rowsome.

Cheers,

DavidG

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Nope, still won’t play for moi… and I have a newer PC plus broadband. :confused:

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Joseph, try right clicking and saving the file. It played from my computer in Netscape but it opened a window and played it through Windows Media player. Do you have a pop-up blocker running?

David… verrry nice. Good job!

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Yes I do. I keep forgetting to turn it off. I did try the right click and save target etc… to no avail. :sniffle:

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Resolution on it’s way…

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Isn’t that also called Sword in Hand?

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Thanks Tony, David, I appreciate your generous efforts!

Mighty piping there David! Where do I send the roses? :smiley:

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That’s the one!!

In fact, now that I think about it, we even called it ‘The Sword in Hand Set’ Doh!!

Thanks PJ

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Awww shucks… :blush: Just put them over there on the stage by my stool with all the bras and the panties :pint: