i’m sure you all know tunes that make your flute rock on the low d, or tunes that sound great on flute…
like the humours of trim… lonesome jig
you know, im gettin that low D on my new M&E and i would like to explore it with your help
un saludo, amigos!
Floating Crowbar
An Phis Phluich
Within a mile of Dublin
Toss the Feathers (the “D” one)
Sheila Coyle’s, reel
The Coalminer (also called More Power to Your Elbow), reel
Last Night’s Fun (never seems to get old)
Devanny’s Goat
The Girl from the Big House
Up Leitrim
Those are some of my favorites.
Is that the same tune as “Robbie Hannon’s?” - D-Mix piping jig that has some F-naturals in the B pat?
Yes it is, but I have never heard it with Fnats. The Vallely bros. do it on their CD and Donnacha Gough does it (on a C set of pipes) on the Danu album with all the solos, Up in the Air.
this is just off the top of my head thinking about things that seem to have good D’s in them; I’m bad at remembering keys, etc.
Maids of Castlebar
King of the Pipers (Franc A Phoill)
Coalminer’s (totally, Brad!)
Lady on the Island
Trim the Velvet (drop middle Ds down to low D)
ditto Wormdiet on The Good Wife/An Phuis Fluich – fun for cranns
Heathery Breeze (in G, but good low Ds)
the Cook in the Kitchen
Molly Bawn
I Buried My Wife and Danced on Top of Her Grave
Farewell to Connaught
Dowds #9
Jackson’s #1 (Jackson’s Morning Brush?)
Seamus Quinn’s
Moving Cloud (in G, I think?)
And while I hate to cite from the Top 20, I like The Foxhunter’s & Rolling in the Ryegrass for nice low-D-whomping opportunities.
I Buried My Wife… is a great one. Came up in my session on Friday, I kind of knew how to play it from listening to Dervish so many times.
Crooked Road
Humours of Tulla
Woodcock/ Kerfunten
Strop the Razor
Mark
Dare I suggest the Gold Ring?
Has anyone suggested Trim the Velvet or The snug in the Blanket (also known as the Hag in the Blanket)
Great tunes for the D flute, in that all the patterns are very flute friendly.
Trim the Velvet is such a blast. A piper pal of mine has now got it on his flute and unveiled it at our last session – it was such a joy to have someone to play it with. Now I’ve got to get back on that horse so I can keep up with him – he rocked! – and two flutes are so cool on that tune 
A few more good low D things that came up last night at our little session …
jigs:
The Rolling Wave
The Leitrim Jig
Scotsman Over the Border
hornpipes:
The Home Ruler
Kitty’s Wedding
and of course … the B part of the Bucks.
Under penalty of being forced to play it! 
Captain Rock’s rocks.
I’ve been working quite hard on it listening to the Conal O’Grada version. It’s great fun… and I can just about get through it without tripping over. Seems that the hard 'D’s in the last two sections stay harder (can I say that 
) if I use strikes or throating to separate repeated notes rather than tonguing - tonguing seems to disrupte the hard-D embouchure.
WOW, good on ya! And thanks for the tip. I partially learned it from a Michael Cooney version and have since gone back to it several times, but have never really gotten it into my head or expended the energy to do anything less than horrid injustice to it. For some reason it’s soooo daggoned convoluted to me …
But you’ve inspired me; sounds like it’s time for another go. Maybe that’ll be my Holy Grail tune of this year (not that I’ve exactly captured the Holy Grails of last year yet 
).
Tunes that just plain rock:
Edinburgh Rock (no pun intended), Bunny’s Hat
Ones that really are great to play on flute:
Heather Breeze, Colonel Frazier’s, Street Player
Some more good ones:
Greg’s Pipes
Within a Mile of Dublin
The Humours of Glendart
Ditto on many of the others mentioned, plus my votes for the following:
Sean Reid’s (You should hear Tom McElvogue do this one!)
Custy’s trip to Brittany (McGoldrick tune I believe)
The Humors of Lisheen
The Belles of Tipperary
Tie the Bonnet
The Hare’s Paw
The West Wind (This one has shared the Sean Reid’s name, but the version I’m thinking of sounds almost like a mix of Sean Reid’s and Colonel Fraser)
and of course…“The Big Jig” aka The Gold Ring…
I’m sure there’s more I could think of!
Glad to have inspired someone, which is more than my playing itself probably does… so what were those Holy Grails of last year Cathy?