One day when it was snowing out, I set up my little home recording rig and banged out a mini-lesson on different ways to play Star of the County Down on guitar. It’s not the utmost in recording or playing purity, but you might be interested. It’s at…
http://www.elmcmeen.com/musicdownloads.htm
A studio recording of the tune is on my 2002 CD called Breakout.
El McMeen
http://www.elmcmeen.com
Glad this was still near the top (not much activity over here, eh?), as I’ve only recently started straying over from the whistle forum.
Playing the songs in various forms is very interesting, and not something I’d have thought to do. Not being familiar with your tuning, I just capoed on 4 and played out of Dm position. Of course, to make it work played in Bm on a D whistle, I’d capo 2 and play out of Am position. (I’m a Bluegrass flatpicker by origin, as you can see from http://www.coastalfog.net/flatpick/tablature/tab_main.html and wouldn’t even think of playing guitar at a session–if I should ever attend one. Still, it’s fun to play with the material.)
FWIW: El, I saw your cd at DownHome Music in El Cerrito. A great record store…