Hello everyone, I am currently listening to a field recording of Paddy Canny; he is in conversation with a very competent whistle player and there are a few tracks where they play together (The Humours of Tulla, for example). I have no information about this particular field recording but it starts with The Concert Reel & The Gleantann (?) Reel, a total of 21 tracks. In between they talk about people having teeth problems and the whistle player at some point asks if there’s a tune called “The Humours of Feakle” 
I would love to know who the whistle player is and if there are some more recordings of him out there. I hear great rhythm and lovely execution of good old tunes, it’s the kind of whistle playing I appreciate.
Any help or hint would be more than welcome, thanks!
It would probably be easier if you could post a little clip of the playing and the voices (in PM is fine, if you don’t want to post it on a public forum).
With your current information it could be ‘anybody’, although there are some ‘possibles’ close to Canny I could think of bit will need to listen for clues in playing style and/or voice.
Thank you for the reply and yes, the audio to it would certainly help. I don’t have access to the audio files at the moment but will post/send them later.
I would love to hear the whole thing. I have a lot of Canny’s music and can do a swap if you like. A nice one of Peter O’Loughlin and Paddy with Paddy Carty joining them for a bit at the end, for example. I don’t have a lot of him playing with a whislteplayer, achaotic late night in Feakle during the seventies where Martin Rochford plays a bit on the whistle (Ronnie Wathen, Bill Ochs and Martin Doyle were there too)but not a lot else. I missed one opportunity when I walked in on him playing with one of his old companions from the Tulla, who was a lovely whistle/flute player. I cursed myself for not carrying the camera or something to record the music, but such is life. They had lovely music together.
Here’s a link to Paddy Canny and the mystery whistle player playing “The Humours of Tulla”, if anyone is wondering what my question above is about.
The link to the file will self-destroy in seven days.
This thread went to PM for a bit. I received the recording and swapped it for another one of Canny and Peter O’Loughlin (with Paddy Carty joining later on).
Anyhow, I was hoping the whistleplayer would be one of Canny’s companions or at least one from this part if the country, which would have given me at least a shot of putting a name to the player. As it stands, it was an American visitor, which is outside my experience/area of expertise, if you want to put it that way. Bill Ochs met Canny during the late seventies (and I have a tape of that occasion) but it’s not him on this recording, I can tell that much.
Problem with these sort of things is that our minds go to wellknown names or people we are familiar with, which may lead us completely up the garden path.
Anyone else with suggestions perhaps?
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