191 Ramble to Cashel by Turlough O'Carolan

[mlydiat]

Thanks for taking the time to comment. This is one of Carolan's less well-known tunes - deserves a wider audience.

[BlackDogBroonzy]

Great work!

[mlydiat]

Thanks for the comment - i don't know how you might try to transfer some of the chord patterns here for your harp.

[AlouaisA]

hey..I like this interpretation!! i thought mine was pretty good ( haha!) but I like this one even more.......

thank you!!

[sanjak]

I just uploaded mine. I heard it from 'Guitar by the sea'. It's different from your version and called T.O' Carolan's Journey or something. Your version sounds pretty good.

[mlydiat]

Just listened to your version - well done. I think you are playing in standard tuning?? Open tunings make Carolan stuff a bit easier - and they sound more like the harp as well. Try the tab from my web site.

[Jumbomannetje]

I can play this one too :) Alan Alexander published it in his Celtic guitar book. although that's a little bit easier. good job anyway.

[mlydiat]

I don't know that book - I made this arrangeent myself. Have you done a video for You Tube? I'd like to see it.

[bluesgurugod]

well done!

[mlydiat]

Thanks - I'm pleased to give some publicity to one of Carolan's less well known tunes.

[Ticlano]

Thanks Brook, for keeping the marvelous work of O' Carolan alive!

Keep it up!

[mlydiat]

Thanks for commentin g - the guitar is a Brook - I am Mike!

[mlydiat]

Thanks for the comment - it was a labour of love over several years kept going by the many tunes left by O'Carolan that no-one plays these days.

[TG4gaeilge]

I'd just like to say congratulations for the trojan work on Carolan, and tabulation generally. Impressive!

[mlydiat]

Thanks for the comment - you're only as old as the speed of your fingers!

[Hillslayer]

Excellent job, thank you ol' man !

[mlydiat]

Exactly right - CGDGCD resolves most easily to the key of G whereas CGCGCD resolves to C.

[banjoleper]

Ah, yes, Orkney Hoy, from the Old Man of Hoy.

So to be clear, Orkney Tuning is CGDGCD

But Orkney HOY is CGCGCD.

I like it. Good work. (It is funny, even though there is only one string difference, Orkney allows you to play in the key of G pretty easily, as well as C. Hoy is pretty much a C tuning, though it's great also.

All the best. And thanks again.

[banjoleper]

Hi, I like your playing. Actually, you are one step different from ORKNEY TUNING. Orkney is cgDgcd, you are in cgCgcd.

Lovely stuff. Thanks.

[mlydiat]

While you are undoubtedly correct, the C9 tuning is so closely related that from now on I intend calling it Orkney Hoy - a member of the Orkney family.

[banjoleper]

what tuning are you in?

nice arrangement. Is it yours?

[mlydiat]

Hi - the tuning is C9 also called Orkney (from fat to thin string that's CGCGCD). Capo puts it in D of course.

The arrangement is my own - on my web site I have all 200 plus Carolan tunes arranged in TablEdit for various open tunings. Click the link in the 'More info' section above right.

[SUNNYD3322]

Well played.

[32kostas32]

very nice!!!

[bohuslen]

Great music and a great performance. Thank you.

[mlydiat]

Thank you - I will try to add more soon.