Hi all
Been a long time since posting. Has anyone else gotten the new Lunasa book that is on their website that has all the music in it (with a section specifically for guitar too)?
I am considering ordering it, but dont know if their will be any hidden charges since it’s coming from the UK to the US. I figure at 12 pounds (@ $18.50) this is a good deal, especially since I play whistle and guitar.
thanks for any feedback,
Didn’t know it was available yet, but I’ll be ordering it, as I imagine most of their diehard fans will. Whoever gets it first, post some info about it!
Susan
You mean to tell me this thing is actually out?!?! It was originally meant to be released at least two years ago. At this point practically every one of their tunes has been transcribed and is available on JC’s ABC tunefinder. Still, I’d be interested in this book for the chord accompaniements. It darn well better be good!
Best,
Chris
[ This Message was edited by: ChrisLaughlin on 2002-12-03 09:40 ]
Cool …
It December so … my wife has just ordered me Lunasa’s music book for Christmas. (Hmmm better give her a call and let her know she placed that order in my name…
)
I’ve been waiting almost 2 years for this book to finally come out. Thankfully my wife usually waits until the last minute to by Christmas presents, so I can clue her in on this great purchase by proxy we made.
and since I’m living in Belgium I will have it sooner than all you Americans 
On 2002-12-03 09:30, ChrisLaughlin wrote:
You mean to tell me this thing is actually out?!?! It was originally meant to be released at least two years ago. At this point practically every one of their tunes has been transcribed and is available on JC’s ABC tunefinder. Still, I’d be interested in this book for the chord accompaniements. It darn well better be good!
Best,
Chris
Well Chris I never found a good transcription, it is true though you can find a lot of tunes they’re playing. On the other hand I made a lot of transcriptions myself but still ordered it.
Cheers
Listen, play and have fun!
[ This Message was edited by: sweetone on 2002-12-03 11:09 ]
Hey, I’m psyched about it… I just think they’re a little late in the game. This thing would have sold like hotcakes 2 years ago!
Best,
Chris
I got the Lunasa “The Music, 1996-2001” book today. Slightly disappointed - it’s more of a booklet really - small, 8"x6", and about 60 pages. The tunes are all there - sometimes two to a page, but it’s nice that some of the tunes are shown in more than one key. There are a few photos, but not a lot. The best thing about it (along with having the actual tunes) is the little blurb that Donogh has written about each tune. He tells who wrote the tune and/or where Lunasa got it, along with some “extras” like the note for “Thunderhead” on the first album where he says “Listen out for the bus passing by outside the window during the slow air” during recording.
Worth the $18.50 it cost to get it here? Hmmm…probably not…but interesting to have now that it’s here.
Susan
Susan does it say whether any of the tunes are traditional, ie not under copyright?
I don’t have the book, but I have the CDs. A lot (half, maybe?) of the tunes are traditional. On the other hand, I’m sure all the arrangments are “copyright Lunasa”.
A more interesting question would be, have they correctly given origins for the ones which are not? (Note, for instance, sets like track 3 of Otherworld, which has two of the tunes incorrectly named…)
[ This Message was edited by: colomon on 2002-12-11 20:45 ]
The tunes are all listed as “trad” or with the composer’s name. There is a section stating what I assume are the copyrights for some of the tunes (although the word “copyright” is not used).
The blurbs for Track 3 of Otherworld:
“Butlers of Glen Avenue - The correct title for this jig is actually The Roaring Barmaid, and it’s another cracker of a tune we took from the Mancunian thimble plucking banjo driver himself, Tony (Sully) O’Sullivan. He named it after an employee in “The Ducie,” a pub in Longsight in Manchester.
Sliabh Russell - “Slieve Russell” is a mighty and well-known jig that’s as old as the hills…Paddy O’Brian says it’s a mountain in Kerry and when Seamus Ennis enquired, he was told “it could be a knob of a hill anywhere.”
Cathal McConnell’s - A great little slip jig put into the great little key of F# minor. It was made popular through the playing of Cathal McConnell, flautist and singer with the Scottish-Irish band Boys of the Lough. He played it in E minor but he probably got it from fiddler Denis Ryan, who played it in the key of G major.”
So there you have it - if you disagree, I guess you’d have to take it up with Donogh himself! 
Susan
[ This Message was edited by: susnfx on 2002-12-11 21:39 ]
Well, although it is on the way to me supposedly, I am a little disapointed after your description of it being so small. Let me hope that I will find a duel-use for it since I also play guitar (which is why I ordered it really 'cause some of his style is hard to hear and pick out although I have played for just now 12 years!).
I say “supposedly” on its way because it’s been a week since it says on thier website ‘dispatched’ and still hasnt arrived yet. Also, when inquiring to the address my order confirmation shows, it bounces back to me as ‘undeliverable’.
Eric
Tradman - I ordered the book on 12/3, the same day as my first post, and got it today. There are two pages in the back of the book for guitarists showing the most regular tunings he uses and 40 chords in the key of D major and minor. I’m sure you’ll find things of interest in it.
Susan
See New Book thread posted a few days ago.
I bought the book from Donogh Hennessy on 5th December at Pontardawe.
Also the track “January Snows” is not in the book. I emailed Donogh about this via their website, asking i)if they can put up the sheet music; ii) is the tune The Snow It Melts The Soonest is the same thing, albeit a faster tempo than Kevin plays it.
Go to http://tunedb.woodenflute.com and search for snow, and it’ll show up.
If anyone knows different, don’t be shy, and let us know
On 2002-12-11 21:37, susnfx wrote:
So there you have it - if you disagree, I guess you’d have to take it up with Donogh himself! >
Susan
Don’t think I won’t! 
But he’s pegged the first two just right. I believe the “proper” name for the third one is “The Cock and the Hen”. I’ve never heard of anyone playing it in a major key, but weirder things have happened.
Suppose I’ll have to get this book!
I got my copy of this book yesterday, and it hasn’t left my vicinity since.
Lots of lovely stuff in it that I hope to someday be able to play. For now, I’m amusing myself greatly with “The Millar of Drohan” on my low-F. I’m hoping to be good enough at it to play it at next week’s session.
BTW, there’s a few pics of the band in the book too. The one of Kevin playing his bodhran with the tuning wrench in his mouth is pretty amusing.
Is THAT what that is? I couldn’t figure it out…my bodhran-playing friends would have straightened me out in a second, I’m sure. I love Millar/Miller of Drohan (notice it’s spelled “Miller” on the CD liner and “Millar” twice in the book) - and learned it by ear (yay me) awhile ago.
Susan
Learning tunes for me is not a simple matter of learning by ear or by sheet music. I really need both.
The hardest way for me is from sheet music only. I can read the notes, but not well enough to get the timing/rythm.
I can learn only by ear, and I’ve done it more than a few times, but it requires continuous repetition hundreds of times for me to figure out more complex pieces.
The best way for me is to hear it enough to be familiar with the timing, then play it from the sheet music until I have it memorized, then go back to the recordings to re-enforce the timing.
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On 2002-12-12 00:12, susnfx wrote:
Tradman - I ordered the book on 12/3, the same day as my first post, and got it today.
Well, Im a little upset. I placed the order on Wed, Dec 4th and I know for a fact that it was recieved and processed on Dec 5th, and showed “Dispatched”. Then last night after attempting to email an inquirey to the site that the sale’s confirmation gives, the email bounced back after repeatedly making sure I used the right address. Checked the mail tonight…no book. Do ya think the fact that it has a CD in it as well (I ordered a CD) would slow it down? We have the big “p.o. box” outside by the street as well and if the package is oversized, then they just put the key in the small box in order to open the big box to get the mail. Oh well…guess since Im going out of town tommorow, I will have to wait and see Monday.
ERic
If the cd was out of stock or something maybe it would. do you have a phone number for them?