Tony MacMahon plays two reels (transposed in D)

The ships are sailing and Toss the feather (both Edor).
Sound is one semitone lower than on the original video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdXRX9VEqaQ .
As if Tony MacMahon was playing in C#/D instead of his D/D# (makes it easier to learn with).

An Ceoláras Náisiúnta, Dublin, 1982.

Category:

Music

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• Drekes
• Tony
• Mac
• Mahon
• ships
• sailing
• toss
• feather
• reel
• accordion
• clare

[splortz]

I must have seen this clip 300 times now. The "Toss The Feathers" reel is sometimes listed as "Killian's" in some trad music books. If you have a bit of trouble finding it, or you find the version of TtF isn't sounding like Tony's, check "Killian's".

Also realize that Tony is playing this thing like a house on fire. It sounds a lot different "at speed". This guy rocks.

[daoudonek]

Just two tunes with the same name ;)

[wiseoneetest]

i walk into a bar one night and the fellow in this video tape was playing his box with a fiddler and guitar accompianment....after my 4 hr allotment of guiness it was time to leave...the fellow ahead of me at the door leaving as well was talking to his friend..." I dont know what instrument he was playing ,but he played the fuck out of it" and indeed he did.....Mr. McMahon played that box masterfully that night..I considered it fortunate and luck to have ever seen him play live for a night

[northernbjarne]

Exelent play! Can you please upload some other videos?

[spunnek75]

God bless this man!

[martinmcmutrie]

@synthpathetic sorry you find that sound annoying. I don't at all, and I guess that's just lucky. Actually, there's very little of it on this vid . . . you'll really hear it when someone plays a lower-end Hohner like the Erica though.

[BlackFolkAndPiano]

@anfiorsceal I think so too... in his albums there are a couple of airs which are really awesome

[anfiorsceal]

I like the way he uses the bass keys as if they were a backing band -very rhythmically. Good as he is there, I think he's at his best when playing the slow airs ... his playing is so emotional.

[Pagra50]

Great player. Very emotional and not afraid to voice his opinion. It's his music that I like.

[boscaceoil1]

@synthpathetic personally i think it adds character to the music, plus it reinforces the old style of playing the box, which is definatly how mr.macmahon plays his. just my opinion though :)

Conor

[gtcian]

nise box

[Holm182]

@PipersGrip

Finally someone from the mustard board who knows how real music should sound! :-)

[PipersGrip]

@Holm182 You said it!

[Holm182]

@synthpathetic

You gotta be kidding me?! I LOVE the sound of the buttons on old accordion recording and the breathing on flute recordings! It gives the music so much life and soul!