New Tradlessons.com whistle tunes...

Posted tonight, July 1:

Behind the Bush - Slide (requested by Fletcher)
Trip to Durrow - Reel (requested by Damien)
Lads of Laois - Reel (requested by Damien)
Star of Munster - Reel (requested by Damien)

Cheers,

Michael
http:/www.tradlessons.com

I’ve recently changed the site to no longer use embedded YouTube videos for the main instrument pages to speed up the load times. The videos will open in their own page when you click the links associated with each tune. I’ll still use embedded videos for the “Latest News” page, but keep them to only a few per page.

Thanks to bigpow5 for the suggestion, should greatly improve the page load times.

That is a good idea.

Say, Michael… could you come up with the Cameron Highlanders for me…er… us? Pretty Please. :slight_smile:

A recommended version is on the second Mulcahy Family CD, after Her Golden Hair Hanging Over Her Back. Nice opportunity to dig out the Eb whistle. The whole CD is wonderful. The tune, incidentally, is originally Scots, written by J.S. Skinner as a march.

I’m coming up with absolute ziltch in looking for that 2nd CD. The only one I can find anything about is “Mulcahy Family CD” from 2000 http://www.cduniverse.com/search/xx/music/pid/1016824/a/Mulcahy+Family.htm and I don’t find anything about either tune or any other CD. Help! :confused:

EDIT:
Ah… finally managed to get the right search phrasing I guess…

“Notes From the Heart,” http://www.irishecho.com/newspaper/story.cfm?id=17153
http://www.ossianusa.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=ossian&Product_Code=01072-CD

Thanks Bloomie!! :slight_smile:

That’s the one. Gorgeous. You want track 3.

Do you happen to know of any mp3 of it? I am spending my Bday cash on a new head for my Low D, so the CD will have to wait …

Suborning piracy on my thread! Shame on you! :slight_smile:

:laughing: Wellllllllllllll… I did ask you first… but nooooooooooo… you did a bunch of others… sooooooooo… my constancy is only so reliable… :wink:

Does anyone know of a different tune by the name of Behind the Bush? There’s a tune, played by pipers, supposedly called Behind the Bush, which I really love. I was hoping that I had finally found it with this video, but…not it. It was played at the Friday ceili at Augusta, and at several other performances there over the week.

Oh, I guess I should give the link for the Tradlessons example of Behind the Bush that isn’t the version that I’m looking for.

Is it this?

X:1
T:Behind the Bush in the Garden [2]
M:6/8
L:1/8
S:Aird, vol. II
Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion
K:G
(d/c/) | B2G (B/c/d).B | A2F (A/B/c).A | B2G (B/c/d).B | d3 g2 (d/c/) |
B2G (B/c/d)B | A2G FED | G2c B/c/dB | G3G2 ::d/e/4f/4 | gag fgf |
e2d B3 | gag f2g | a3 d2 c/B/ | c2a B2g | ABG FED | GAB cAF | G3 G2 :expressionless:

Hmmmm. I don’t think that’s the tune either. I think I’ll sleep on it and maybe the catchiest phrase will come back to me in the morning, which I’ll try to come up with an ABC of.

Maybe you’re thinking of Behind the Haystack?
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/358

It makes a nice piping tune with the low D and E crans.

By golly, THAT IS IT!!!
Who’d ever thought that such an ambiguous description of a tune could get such positively correct results? Not me.
Thanks, Guru!

Dang MT, is there nothing in whistledom and ITM that thee doth not know? Including the unspoken? (Well, merely hinted at.) Well done!

Thanks, guys. When I consider the depth and breadth of knowledge of instruments and traditions possessed by some of our fellow Chiffers, I know full well that I am only a junior grade guru at best. But it’s always fun to help, and I’ll take whatever props and mojo I can get. :slight_smile:

Maybe we can get Meridith to host a “Whistle Week” on Who Want’s To Be A Millionare and get all that knowledge to pay off?

After taking a month off, added today:

Father Kelly’s

to the whistle tunes.

Cheers,

Michael
http://www.tradlessons.com