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Marcus Hernon -Flute
Michael Spangfort-Flute
Jörgen Fischer -tin whistle
Peter G Sorensen -fiddle
I don´t know the names of the other musicians.
It was a nice evening.
Great Video!
Thanks.
Jon
Great video clip there Pär, good to see Michael Spangfort on flute, your Murray isn’t it?, and Jörgen Fischer in there playing. What’s the name of that second reel after Dowd’s no 9, I know it but can’t think of the name
Yes, yes…nice tunes! The names, tell usss… 
Can you also tell us where this was shot, was it that pub which is really close to Gråbrødre Torv?
Eivind
I love that last tune, it’s got a nice, and sort of unusual feel. By unusual I don’t mean alien, just not like everything else. I might have to go work on it now. Thanks for the clips Pär.
Cheers
thanks - fun clip and enjoyable fluting!
the second tune rings a bell - it may be on kevin burke’s ‘up close’, and/or another recording by james kelly, paddy obrien and daithi sproule.
interestingly, i have a tutorial written by kevin burke and in it he has the tune listed as ‘the miller of droghan’. however, just before it he has a tune called ‘the man from bundoran’. now, the band lunasa recorded the tune that burke lists as ‘the man from bundoran’, yet they called it ’ the miller of droghan’ - exact opposite names! so much for names i suppose.
i think i will attempt to learn the second tune from the clip, in which case i will call it ‘…the one that comes after…’.
Nice whistle playing, too. This is one thing I don’t like about the whistle, you won’t hear it’s first octave much, but the second, high octave will pierce through. When you think of it, it’s a really unbalanced instrument, as you can hear both octaves on the flute pretty well, due to the high volume of the first octave. Correct me if I’m wrong, but the flute’s first octave requires more air than the second octave, thus having more ‘volume’ in the first octave, and with the whistle it’s the other way around. Anyway, very nice clip.
Here´s another one…
Enjoy
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not really, the flute is quite capable of equal volume in both octaves, although many people seem to operate under the notion that the first octave is greater – and then play it that way. however the second octave can be played quite nicely (in tune) with plenty volume. but since it can be hard learn to play in tune on the flute, and to keep it under control, playing softer in the second octave seems to be advised by some (until maybe the chops develop or just simply as a matter of preference).
since flutes vary and players vary, so does the sound. but i’d say a good flute should be capable of equanimity between octaves. it brings out the full potential of the tone of the flute.
I’ve always known that 2nd reel as “Paddy Kelly’s”, the name given to it on the Kelly, O’Brien and Sproule recording. I have a feeling that “Buttons & Bows” - [ the McGuire brothers Manus and Seamus, with Jacky Daly and Garry O’Briain ] were the first to record it as “The Man From Bundoran”, and “Altan” recorded it under that name too, saying it was composed by fiddler Patrick Kelly from Bundoran. The Kelly & Co. sleeve notes also say it was composed by a Paddy Kelly from Donegal.
“The Miller Of Droghan” is a different tune entirely.
The young banjo-player in the clip is Jonas Fromeseire [ sp? - sorry] of “The Trad Lads” who released a CD in November. Looks to have been a good session.
…then ‘paddy kelly’s’ or ‘the man from bundoran’ it is!
here are the notes from k. burkes tutorial (please excuse my inexperience with abc format):
‘paddy kelly’s’ or ‘the man from bundoran’
BEE2 BECE | BEE2 BCdB | CAA2 CAeA | Ceef e2dC |
BEE2 BECE | BEE2 BCdB | CAA2 CAeA | Ceef e2de ||
f2fe dCBA | f2fe d3e | f2fe fgaf | eCAC e2de|
fgfe dCBA | effe d3e | f2fe fgaf | eCAC e3d ||
and another one…
‘connie o’connell’s reel’
d2fd Adfd | d2fa geCe | d2fd Adfd | eA(BCd) egfe || 2x
a3b afdf | a2fd ef(gfe)|a3b afdf | eA(BCd) ef(gfe)|
a3b afdf | a2fd ef(gfe)|afge fdeC | ABCd egfe|| d4
Moving slightly off topic here, but “rama” - your “Connie O’Connell’s” reel is much older than he is. I know it as “The Green Garters”.
The clips were shot in Bloomsdays Bar, which is on Niels Hemmingsens Gade, right in the middle of town.
The session takes place every sunday afternoon from 15:00 and has been going for quite some years. A good steady core of players and many interesting visitors…
I missed the one where Marcus was visiting. A friend sent me an urgent sms to get over there pronto, but I had other commitments. Very frustrating.
As you can see in the clips there is ‘Happy Hour’ from 2-8 
Thanks for posting these!
Cheers,
Jeroen
I always try to get the volume equal between the octaves, sometimes though I push the bottom octave more and leave the second as it is. I think many players does this, the first octave on a flute sounds so nice and very different from most other instruments. My Boehm teacher used to become very crossed with me when I tightened up the second and third octave on the Boehm flute, because she prefered when it sang out up there. She couldn’t believe that it was generally prefered in ITM fluting to hold back just a little on the second octave. She didn’t believe me when I said tounging was very rare in ITM playing and that most articulations were made with the fingers eighter. I had to give her a recording of Matt Molloy so she could listen to it for a while. She was very stubborn :roll:
well, you couldn’t of given her a finer example, imho. matt’s large quantity of recorded tunes on the various recordings in various settings, deliver such a wide array of technique and style, particuliarly in terms of first-to-second octave volume and control. sometimes his second octave is quite monsterous while at other times more subdued, entirely up to him and what he wants to do with it. fluctuation in volume can add a bit of drama, intensity, or contrast in tunes. flexibility can be a good thing.
thanks kenny, always better to get the names straight. i got the tunes out of burke’s fiddle tutorial, something i picked up when i thought i 'd try my hand at fiddling (ha!). at least the book has some decent tunes, so all is not lost.
What a nice surprise, in this second video, the first reel is Mike Rafferty’s
composition “Feeding the Birds” - that’s travelled a ways!
The third reel is the Salamanca..
Lesl
Again, some nice tunes. Good to see an actual session. The banjo player’s sister, Ditte Fromseier Mortensen, is a good musician has a nice CD out “Anything Strange?”
http://www.fromseierrose.com/about.html
Do you have anymore session videos Pär?
Should be:
Thanks for lots fun as well as very interesting what i hear especially on the interval between C and E, a bit higher c and sounds very natural(even better), the note sounds like between minor6th and major6th,so at the first listening,that confused me like ‘what is this fasinating interval?’. I feel like I got back what i lost in the past.
Now I understand again why I hated musical theory. 
Great clips…have you anymore???