Tabhair dom do Lámh aka Give Me Your Hand - composed in the early 17th Century by Ruairí 'Dall' Ó Catháin, a Blind Harpist. Played on a Weber Tamarack #2 mandocello - mando to follow...
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Oops! Apparently I played it in C since the Mandocello is tuned CCGGDDAA an Octave below a Mandola.
Vega Cylinderback 205 Mandolin with Tamarack Mandocello courtesy Garage-Band-In-A-Bag...
Nice Eddy. Didn't Planxty do that one. It sounds very familiar.
Very nice, Eddie! Are you having to do your recording in a closet these days?
I bet there are still rooms in Eddie's house we haven't seen yet - just like Hogwart's. I also seem to remember this tune from Planxty but never got around to learn it. Maybe this time.
There may even be rooms that Eddie hasn't seen yet. this is a nice one, and it's on the list. monkeyhead
Planxty did it as a set with Raggle-taggle Gypsy. Actually I started out in the living room and the house morphed around me... that darn moving staircase again...
I recently purchased a Zoom H4 for recording but I haven't unpacked it yet...
Didn't Barbara once have a staircase that would change directions from one video to the next?
No, one was an "up" staircase, the other was a"down" staircase (also used by left-handed persons).
Now I'm having an M.C. Escher moment...........
That's great. I've been curious to find out what a mandocello sounds like. I'm going to go practice this song. Thanks for posting.
M.C Escher moment Yep, that's another home recording challenge Eddie has to live up to yet:
I'm afraid to say that gave me Vertigo 'cause i can see where that's heading!!
How did they get into my house?
Eddie, it's the Bowie, he can go anywhere, even Outer Space.
Following the modified-gravity gist of this thread, I have tilted my house (I wedged the Ultra-complete Collection Of All Irish Tunes Ever under one corner) before starting my recording: I like the F near the end, because it shows that the whole tune is not really G major, but G mixolydian (therefore, the notation could be in the key of C and no accidentals needed). I used to hear this tune a lot on a Chieftains record - Paddy Moloney's pipes squealing away at the F - therefore I could almost practise from ear.
Bertram, that was great!!!! Do tell how you managed to tilt your house (for real!)
Thanks Barb, but it's too complicated to explain all that fiddling with a sub-quantum nil-o-grav generator linked to an anti-isotropic Carson-Heaviside matrix submerged in a Bose-Einstein tunnel trap...
Of course, the Bose-Einstein Cloud.....it's all so simple now.
ok, you brain-i-acs.... quit talking over my head!!!
It's actually quite simple, Barbara, the Bose-Einstein Trap or Condensate is a collection of atoms cooled to near Absolute Zero which then form a new form of matter in which the bosons 'condense' to the lowest quantum state......... oh, my. sorry
oh yeah, that!
But don't take my word for it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bose%E2...ein_condensate you do the math minkeyhead
Take no notice Barb. They've been drinking whiskey again...
no, Eddie, They've been drinking whiskey..STILL.
I was looking to see if this piece had been posted yet and nearly missed it as it is under its Irish title. I have played the melody first then with chords as suggested by David James.
I first heard this tune as played by what would soon be Planxty on Christy Moore's 1972 solo album "Prosperous", and then shortly afterwards by Planxty on their debut album and single, each time paired with the song Raggle Taggle Gypsy. Wikipedia attributes the tune to Ruaidri Dáll Ó Catháin (c.1570-c.1650, although those dates are pretty much guesswork). The reason why I have decided to record it is that I've come across a nice arrangement (three voices plus chordal backing) by David James at www.tiompanalley.com. Link to PDF sheet music I've recorded it with effectively a full band line-up: three mandolins, two tenor guitars and bouzouki. Melody in unison on the Ajr and tenor, low harmony on Ajr and bouzouki, high harmony on Embergher bowlback, rhythm on tenor guitar. David James gives a tempo of 70bpm, but that sounds far too slow to me, so I've played it at 120bpm, still somewhat short of Planxty's speed. It's also one of the tunes at the BBC Virtual Session, at about the same speed. Martin
