Request for name of tune

Whistle
1

Would some kind person provide the name of the tune being played by Jerry O’Sullivan here

Thanks and best wishes.

Steve

2

http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/1786

3

Thanks very much.

Best wishes.

Steve

4

Well theres two hornpipes there, the second one is called the blackbird.

5

Ah, right, I didn’t listen past the first tune. :wink:

6

Now I’m trying to sort out some of the ornamentation in “Horse Keane’s” being played by Jerry O’Sullivan here …

Can anyone help with the flurry in the second measure of each bar in the first part - where he drops from e in the second octave to lower E (since Jerry is playing an F whistle, that would actually be from g in the second octave to lower G but I’ll list is as if it was on a D whistle) ? Is that a roll on the lower E, a cran, or something else. It just ripples by way too fast for my slow ears to sort out.

Thanks and best wishes.

Steve

7

Sounds like basically a long roll and cut to me.

I don’t know exactly how Jerry’s executing it, but if I do a G-cut D-tap for the E long roll followed by a subsequent F# cut to the E (a common way of doing it, for me), it sounds pretty close enough. Details aside, the effect’s what counts.

8

Yep, Nano nailed it. (Well, the cuts both sound like T3 cuts to me. Just detail.) And the roll is front-loaded (speeded up) a bit, leaving a little more space before the cut.

9

Thanks much. :thumbsup:

Now that I know what to do, I just have to learn to do it - and in rhythm…

Best wishes.

Steve

10

I’m not sure which bit of which tune is being referred to, but Jerry is using a common uilleann piping ornament here, a trill.

Most often played on F# or E, as easiest on these notes.
You bounce the lower hand (right) index finger several times off the tonehole of the instrument.

Boyd

11

I think you’re mis-hearing it, Boyd. Listen closely at 25% speed, and you can hear the the distinct tap of the roll, not a trill:

http://www.box.net/shared/d0x20osekb