Mary Bergin Tin Whistle

[PabloDarioLi]

wonderful!

[Heath75032]

In bee leev able

[bhaisahabable]

Mary taught my wife and I to play whistle when we were neighbours in Co Galway.

[iwatchvideos57]

what is the name of the first jig??

[flogistonband]

@iwatchvideos57 Maid on the Green

[Giuseppetiberi]

porco cazzo!!! O_O

[INDYOSKARS]

2 DISLIKES

Correction,

should read=

2 TONE-DEAFS

[Ntertainment4U]

The best tin whistle player in the world!!! And I'm not just saying that because I am related to her. Luv you Mary!

[richardbough]

Speed! Amazing playing! My hats off to you. I hope to play as well someday.

[DIATOMUZIK]

Fantastic ! ! ! Great playing... Christian, from France

[fasterthanilook]

The 2nd tune is often called "The Bank of Turf"

[claney01]

I wish the squeeze box player would have kept his percussion to himself...

[efsq]

wow

[forsburgers]

magnificent set Mary ...when is it anything but ?!

[TinWhistleMagic123]

I love this Irish Song Ive been playing it And Im getting better at it!

[Braniel1000]

Is that whistle "off the shelf" or has it ben "tweaked?"

[blaydo]

@Braniel1000 don't get caught up with all that tweaking bull$shit, it's not going to make you sound any better. There's nothing wrong with Generation whistles "off the shelf".

[andrewjacksonist]

@Braniel1000 tweaked



[14anabel]

Tin whistle Bb?

[hep2jive]

thighs MOVIN!

[seannosheart]

She's playing an Eb whistle, as she does often...... shifting up, indeed, right into the stratosphere!! What a wonderful set.....

[52Paddy1991]

The first is "The Maid on the Green". The second tune is a version of "The Gallant Tipperary Boys" and associated with Padraig O'Keefe.

[SdeCiduus]

The Maid on the Green & Padraig O'Keefe's Slide

[0minstrel0]

Splendid playing! It is really difficult to play like she.

[Lisnageeragh]

@0minstrel0 There's onl one Mary Bergin ...a great sense of the music ...she could have played anything.

[8chevalier8]

Maid on the Green. I'm the one who told her the name of it.

[segv2]

That's Maid on the Green. Geese in the Bog sounds quite differently.

[FailteSlainte]

Tunepal says with 67% of confidence that it is " geese in the bog"

[jkiparsk]

@FailteSlainte If you don't know the name of the tune, why do you post what some app tells you it might be? The second one is the one I play after Banks of Lough Gowna and can't remember the name of (one of Tom Billys' maybe?), the first one is one I've played but never got the name of - and I didn't need a machine to tell me that!

[SdeCiduus]

@jkiparsk The first tune is 'The Maid On The Green', and the second Mary Bergin just calls 'Padraig O'Keefe's'

[jkiparsk]

@SdeCiduus Fair enough. Tommy Peoples calls it Tom Billy's - I think it's also called "the Bank of Turf when it's played more like a slide. I doubt there'll be a correct answer to find. The funny thing, to my mind, is the idea of consulting a computer to resolve this question. If you know the tune, it doesn't matter if you don't know the name, and if you don't know the tune, it doesn't matter if you do know the name, now does it?

[TheWhistlingGypsy]

@FailteSlainte sorry it's definitely not The Geese in the Bog anyway!

[blaydo]

@FailteSlainte then tunepal is wrong

[andrewjacksonist]

@FailteSlainte its the maid on the green

[jetboy161]

@andrewjacksonist It isn't the same Maid on the Green that she plays on Feadoga Stain 2! They are completely different tunes and I am more inclined to believe that the album track is correctly named. Unless there were two maids on the green, having a meeting!

[principalbass]

Anyone know the name of the first tune?

[edelahaye]

Yes it's an Eb Generation, probably an old one, well selected..

She was my teacher in 1981 at the Scoil Eigse in Buncrana. Mary is a nice person, a fine tutor and an excellent musician.

[Ptarmi]

@edelahaye I reckon that's a Bb Whistle!

Music sounds so much nicer in Bb & C, it's such a shame it ever shifted up! :-(

[antonionp1]

simplesmente Maravilhoso

[tubalooney]

Is Mary playing an Eb whistle?

[Fishmonger1966]

That's the same whistle I have.

Outstanding!

[kagrin81]

fukkin' amazin say I

[sionnachfichiuaois]

Padraig o' Keefe's! DeadlY!!