Dónal Lunny & Michael McGoldrick - A clip from the formation of Ciorras (Lorg Lunny - TG4)

[@coffee20385]

I could listen to this tune for ever and ever and ever! Beautiful communication too! Thanks, really impressive touching music.

[@ryansheridan3871]

You guys are so talented and donal you're so so good you can really knock sparks outta that mandolin

[@liamkelly4338]

It’s a bouzouki

[@lights779]

two legends. someone put this video in a time capsule stat

[@philwilliams899]

'A slip Jig is a tune that finishes before you do'

[@SOUNDsculptures]

Stunning, stunning, stunning.

[@WoutVHMusic]

ye Dónal!!! one of me favourite musicians

[@conormcdermott3986]

Honestly one of my favourite tunes, and played by one of the best players

[@dcartier1692]

Two legendary lefties of Irish music.

[@seanmorris]

Michael McGoldrick plays whistle, flute, pipes left handed but guitar, tenor guitar, mandolin etc. right-handed.

[@mcmanustony]

@@seanmorris And Donal writes with his right! Michael is a surprisingly good guitarist....or maybe given his musicianship it's not that surprising!

[@seanmorris]

@@mcmanustony Dónal is around the age of my parents. My dad is left handed but was, let's say persuaded, to write right handed. Michael seems to be good on a bunch of instruments. I'm based in Manchester so I've been lucky enough to hear him play in a bunch of sessions etc. He sometimes brings along a tenor guitar instead of a flute. One night he asked an old man what his favourite tune was (former whistle player who camee over in the 50s), a quick listen on a mobile phone, asked if he could borrow my mandolin and away he went very competently. (I think it was in a unfriendly key for his flute)

[@colinstewart6367]

..a nice piece of music

[@lubiehotdogi]

great quality of sound : D !! and amazing music : D

[@irishguitar]

This is briliant !

[@katmusswoodwind]

this is just gorgeous ❤

[@pianodad123]

So beautiful!! Very nice

[@Camlaman]

just wonderful!

[@abraxas123]

Awesome clip!

[@fryk2462]

Masters. Lunny´s arrangements are always superb, only matched by McGoldrick's fluency

[@lelorien]

My favorite song, and probably flutist. Can't get enough of both.

[@PipersGrip]

Well, the tune is in F#m if it is on a D flute. He is playing on an Eb flute, so now it is transposed to Gm.

[@jullejuhl8167]

My god! They’re great!

[@KarlHamilton]

Amazing

[@gtrplr42]

Amazing!!!

[@mickey2mccool]

good to see two fellow ciotogs horse out great tunes!

[@romuluscreative]

honestly I just discover him myself a month ago thru paul brady song... brilliant.. sad I didn't know before man.

[@TonyWrench11]

Gorgeous

[@rayraylorenzo19]

amazing!!!!!!!!

[@cooperradley]

Lovely 💜

[@comprimise1]

He's playing it in A maj here, the way it was written initially i think. It's a fairly easy tune to learn, lies well on the whistle. I learnt it by ear which i think is an easier way to learn this tune considering the tricky rhythm.

[@markbadgley6444]

It's only fitting that these two masters from two different generations come together. #$%&^%$@!...that's Gaelic for "I love your music"

[@sineadheaney1]

Unreal love it :)

[@kevinj2525]

Love that chorusing sound he gets from that very well tuned bouzouki. Definitely going to set mine up for unison strings.

[@ev_ing]

Kevin J Seriously. Those chords just ring!

[@leonaogrady2729]

I'm a big fan of u I play the flute to I'm learning one of ur tunes by ear

[@imeldagreene5388]

My Cavan girl Michael english

[@comprimise1]

@Finlay Murray achh don't listen to me! He's playing it on Eb flute, but the key is A maj the way the tune is written, and if played on a D whistle or flute

[@edelahaye]

The scale is A maj, but the key is F#m ...

[@luisalfredoviolin3014]

wooow brilliant . ex bothy band bouzuki player is great musicians ..

[@chinonsootubelu7927]

beautiful once the irish music is in you you cant get it out!

[@guyfihi]

A funny story about the flute. I grew up in Upstate New York in an old 120 year old house. In high school I was learning saxophone and flute. On day I was snooping around in the scary attic and found an old wooden flute, which I didn't realize until later, was an Irish flute. I tried to play it, and couldn't, because I was used to the standard flute with keys. I said, "Ah, this flutes no good, somethings missing." I threw it away in disgust. Bonehead move, probably worth a fortune.

[@hawwy01]

they say great minds think alike

[@alanSdub]

Thank you so much. do you know the best way to accompany this on the bouzouki (using capo if nesscessary). i tried copying donal lunny but just cant figure it out. if you could let me know it would be great.

[@realdersdragon]

Can anyone tell me who made McGoldrick's flute? Amazing player, amazing tone out of that flute!

[@balddonaldcerrone7930]

Stephan morvane

[@EmiFolkMusic]

Thanks for that data.

[@sonofDhughaill]

I think the tone comes very much from Michael as well :-D

[@RaulMenendez-v4q]

Alexander Griffin I play the same flute I also met him at a gig in chorlton ( I was a flute player)

[@edelahaye]

@@balddonaldcerrone7930 Stephane Morvan (he is breton). www.morvanflutes.com/

[@jpof]

Pardon my possible arrhythmia, but isn't this in 6/8? I can't feel the slipjig 9/8 in the tune...

[@RaulMenendez-v4q]

Am I the only one in this comment section who went to a gig on Sunday ( with the school musicians) and met Michael mgoldrick I SHOOK HIS HAND

[@martinlaird4738]

Conor Conor I’ve met him a couple of times as well. Wonderful guy and always very accommodating! I was proper fanboying when I met him! Absolutely legendary in the folk scene.

[@martinlaird4738]

Lol just to follow up on this I’ve now been to his house for a lesson! Wtf!!

[@eirebuck]

donal lunny !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@fidcoffcig]

let's not forget another lefty, john doyle!

[@Trunchisholm]

@edelahaye Which of the two? They're both left handed, you know... :P

[@fearghasmor]

@lubiehotdogi Sounded like "shall we give it a bash?" to me.

[@adria.7878]

how many keys does his flute have?

[@diarmuidhurley3230]

nice

[@amirulpipe]

Initially the tune is in D but can someone precisely tell me what key is the flute that mike is using and the way he plays it, excellent. A very modernize player yet still havent lost his trad skills. highly impresive

[@edelahaye]

The tune was composed in F#m (A scale). Here, Mike is using a Eb flute hence, it sounds like Gm. Details for my orchestra here ... omi.irishtrad.fr/tunes.php?tune_id=81

[@milesnagopaleen]

@@edelahaye It seems to me it's in F# minor pentatonic, played here in G minor pentatonic.

[@edelahaye]

@@milesnagopaleen And how is it different with what I said ?

[@milesnagopaleen]

@@edelahaye Pentatonic scales have only five notes.

[@FefixD97]

OOOO..!! muy bkn... :)

[@alanSdub]

Could someone please tell me what key this is in. Please

[@edelahaye]

It's F#m (A scale) played on a Eb flute. So it sounds like Gm

[@andyweb7779]

Is that Belfast Castle?

[@weeweelegs]

is this at Belfast castle?

[@ev_ing]

What's the tune at the very beginning?

[@AntonioBernal]

That's "Old Hag You Have Killed Me"

[@ev_ing]

+Antonio Bernal Thank you!

[@williamswhistlepipes]

The variation he plays second time through the first part anybody have the notes.

[@liamkelly4338]

U make the variations up yourself no notes needed

[@Nickisgodly3781]

You can google the sheet music, but it's in a different key than what's being played here. This version of Farewell to Whalley Range is in G minor concert and is in 9/8 not 6/8. Most Irish flutes that I've seen are tuned to D. Therefore, F minor is the key for D flute parts because D flutes are two half steps above concert pitch so they need to be brought down. G minor concert brought down two half steps is F minor. Thanks for the upload, very beautiful and the bluesy notes add much to the slip jig's adventurous chord progression.

[@milesnagopaleen]

It's in F# minor pentatonic. He's playing it here on an Eb flute, one semitone or half-step above concert pitch, so it sounds in G minor pentatonic. Also, you're confused about "Irish flutes" or "D flutes". A "D flute" is in concert pitch. If you play the fingering for D, it produces a D.

[@Luke-ih1oc]

@@milesnagopaleenForgive my ignorance, but is it possible to play in the same key as this guy on any given low whistle? If so, which low whistle would I want? D? F? Eb?

[@milesnagopaleen]

@@Luke-ih1oc As I said above, he's playing on an Eb flute, so you could play along on an Eb low whistle.

[@weeweelegs]

Belfast Castle in the back ground

[@lubiehotdogi]

what was the last word did they say? it was something in irish?

[@rcmacmusic1490]

I believe they're saying "sibh oighlas."

[@ConanMcDonnell]

"Shall we have a lash?"

[@MrProgrock]

"Should we have a bash?" I think

[@rcmacmusic1490]

"Sibh oighlas" I believe it is.

[@cheddarman9437]

An awful tricky flute tune and an even trickier piping tune, but I managed to get it!

[@andrewshere]

"Shall we have a bash, yeah?"

[@kilkennyman2009]

*lash :)

[@FrankieMeehan]

The correct idiom is "give it a lash" (meaning to try something, with energy). Michael is from Manchester, so possibly hasn't grasped the Irish expression accurately. But who cares when he can make such great music?

[@ConanMcDonnell]

Not sure I get what either of you are saying. At no time does Michael say 'give it a bash'. It's Donal who says 'have a lash', and Mike is undoubtedly familiar with that expression, given that he grew up amidst Irish people and the trad community in Manchester.

[@patrickcoyne8624]

Fkn brillient

[@klunny998]

go lunnys

[@bertoldriesenteil1430]

Syncopation. Sounds great until you learn what it means. It means having a feeling for rythum that any German will flog you for. I speak from experience.

[@Roke87]

It sounds like 9/8 to me. Just count out 123 123 123 | 123 123 123 | 123 123 123. 6/8 would be 123 123 | 123 123 | 123 123 and so on.

[@Channelbelow]

That's because it is 9/8. But you might already know that since this was 4 years ago.

[@MrProgrock]

That they like the slip-jig rythm. That's basically it.

[@johnmcintyre9820]

It's in G minor so it has B flats!

[@edelahaye]

Nope. F#m played on an Eb flute. Sounds like Gm.

[@conollyjohn]

Iontach

[@PipersGrip]

@lubiehotdogi I think let's give a lash or bash.

[@garboool]

@nial12345678910 too :]

[@JavierSepulvedaAvila]

it's 6/8, no doubt…