Anyone know the name of it? I hear it at the session, but always forget to ask.
Thanks,
-Joey
It’s the 2nd part of the Cliffs of Moher played on a Bb whistle (probably)
Actually, it’s just an instrumental fill, not a particular tune. It’s similar to the B of Cliffs of Moher, and maybe based thereon, but not exactly.
From various clues, I’d guess high F whistle - which would put it in the same ADor fingering pattern as Cliffs. Though it could be played on Bb or C whistle as well.
K:ADor
~e3 dBA|~e3 dBA|BAG DGG|BAG ABd|
~e3 dBA|ege dBA|BAG DGG|BAG A3| etc.
Joey, is Cliffs of Moher not in your session repertoire? It’s often one of the first tunes learned.
Instrumentals often include tags (a musical “reference” to another song), such as the Wicked Tinkers’ Donald MacGillivray, which ends in the fiddle/whistle riff from Man of the House.
Did you mean to say vocals (i.e. not instrumentals)? Sure, song arrangements sometimes use tune tags to link verses, to provide an intro/outro, etc. In this case it seems far enough away from versions of C of M I’m familiar with not to count as a direct quote - though I can imagine settings I’ve not heard, of course.
One could probably start a decent ethnomusicological debate about the source of the tags in some of the Planxty song arrangements - Good Ship Kangaroo, Roger O’Hehir, Farmer Michael Hayes, etc. 