How do you transcribe the D cran, say, in the New Mown Meadow (1st bar, part A, right after the A note)? I think of it as dum-duk-a-dum. Thanks.
There are plenty of examples in the various books. Mitchell wrote an article in the Piobaire in the 90s (80s even?) dealing with various crans. Maybe take your cues there?
Found this on uilleannobsession:
Thanks!
Generally as we know people don’t actually transcribe crans, they use one of several shorthand symbols.
Actually transcribing crans, that is, indicating each finger-movement, would run into the issue that there’s no consensus from piper to piper what precise finger sequence to use.
I’ve attended a number of uilleann workshops over the years and I don’t think there were two pipers doing crans exactly the same.
For example one big-name piper explained that he didn’t use the upper-hand ring finger in his crans, reserving that gracenote to divide Bottom D’s apart from his crans.