Low Irish Tin Whistle The Crested Hen (or les Poules Huppes)

This is a nice tune I picked up at the local session. I heard it played on the fiddle and was great - I don't come close to that here, but hopefully next time they play it I'll be able to add a bit to things. :-) This tune has some very odd notes, particularly in the B section wherein there is some half holing (its not an Irish tune, so I expect thats why)

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Music

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• Irish
• tin
• whistle
• reel
• session
• celtic
• folk
• pennywhistle
• Low
• French
• Waltz

[Breizh07]

the tune is by gilles chabonet, who is still very much alive & playing hurdy gurdy ( vielle) - it was written as 3 time bourree ( 3/8 ) and is great to dance that to - and then adapted as a mazurka ... where you can get the spring into the chicken, if you play it old bal musette style! but its a groovey slinkey dance too.

nicely played here, i must agree. x

& nice sounding whistle I shall look to acquire something similar myself!

[To2ndMars]

@Breizh07

It's a funny thing, for about a year, I thought this was an old Britanny tune hundreds of years old (that's what I'd heard anyway). It had been released on a few albums but the bands though it was public domain so didn't put down who wrote it. Then I heard the story about the guy who wrote it showing up and was like "Hey! You stole my tune!" LOL Just goes to show, just because something SOUNDS old, doesn't mean it IS old. :-)

[3rdDerivative]

ooh, that was wonderful. It's one of my favorite songs. What type of whistle are you playing?

[To2ndMars]

Thanks :) it is a great tune I think as well. I am playing it on a Dixon Low D. A great whistle if your not wanting to spend $500+

[yeddle]

Keep working on this one, worthy of your efforts. R~

[kingsdaughter2008]

ha ha...maybe

[gusthelesswise]

A hen? A..... Crested... Hen?

[yabba234]

i love the crested hen!

[chansherly212]

i absolutely love this tune! so pensive and haunting

[ward1066]

very nice.