After a lifetime of piping, my finger/brain complex will finally allow me to play a BCA triplet. Sheesh!
My first use of it is in the tune Gregory Grene’s aka The Cape Breton Reel (á la Kieran O’Hare). It is in the B part: D-e-f A (bca triplet) D etc. (excuse my ABC notation…never quite learned that mode yet).
I am looking for some tunes to play this in to get a better feel for where to use it.
teekleen
Tom,
Ennis used that triplet a lot. He snuck it into the very beginning of the Bucks of Oranmore.
Beep beep beep D- A BCA F AAA D A BCA F A B EEE
You can also slip it into other tunes with that longer A note at the begining of the tune like The Old Bush, O’Gormans Reel, The Sailors Bonnet, etc
Or tunes where you have a note and then an A roll at the begining of a tunelike the Silver Spear. F A BCA B A F A etc.
Paddys Trip to Scotland, Sheila Coyles, Maids of Mt Kisco, and many more.
Tommy
tommykleen
See Maid in the Cherry Tree(Curragh Races).
It goes well there… Ed
and in the second part of the Dublin reel, instead of a roll on the A:
eA BcA eAfA | eA BcA BAFA
A Clancy move, that. The C being a tight C sharp of course.
Also listen to some of the other Tommy’s, Mr. Reck par example. He slips it in there nice and handy.
Patio.
Just when I was all high and mighty about myself with my ACA triplets… 
On playing BCA triplets:
do you play the B with two fingers up?
or one?
I have seen it done both ways and guess it depends on the
reed and chanter.
Thanks … Ed