Hornpipes: Boys of Bluehill / Mickey Callaghan's Fancy / Where's the Wife?

A set of hornpipes for the ITM course I'm teaching. Played on Pilgrim tenor banjo and accompanied by me with Oakbridge Irish bouzouki. The dots and chords of this version are at muualla.net/Boy...
The latter two hornpipes are locally known as "Hornpipe I" and "Hornpipe II" and it took some research to find their proper names.
(I'm still bit undecided if I should record the melody or accompaniment first. Both seem strange somehow...)

[@killrail]

Hornpipes played at the right speed and not to prove how fast you can do it. Well done

[@marygarner6706]

fantastic jaunty hornpipes.

[@gerard3yrne]

Cracking combination of hornpipes - especially love the last one. Well played.

[@lapboard340]

Good picking and good backup chords !

[@marvinthemaniac7698]

Am I the only one who finds this therapeutic?

[@martini3524]

Nice hornpipes. I'm Irish but most of the well known hornpipes popular in Ireland are in fact English tunes - probably due to the sea-faring history of na Sasanaigh/the Sasanacs. Go raibh maith agat. /Thank you.

[@brucecollins4729]

martini. also many irish fiddle reels are scottish.scotland being the home of fiddle reel music. the origins of these two tunes in ireland are obscure.they may have come from the repertoire of james hill a scottish fiddle player who lived in the north of england and composed a few horn pipes.

[@martini3524]

@@brucecollins4729 Yes indeed. Most reels played in Ireland are Scottish; Miss McCleod of Rassay etc. The reel known in Ireland as "The Bucks of Oranmore" is almost certainly a Scottish reel called "The Bucks of Aranmore".... 🎶 etc.

[@garrettjohnston7152]

Welp, looks like I'm going to have to start looking for a tenor banjo now. Great sound.

[@gregercalhan7059]

Lovely playing! Such great tunes.

[@lindathompson195]

Thank you. This was great.

[@IFS39]

Really enjoy listening to this. Very relaxing

[@bruceprigge5212]

Niilo i love you music! The tenor banjo was invented for YOU!

[@sussumumurakami2110]

Pariquera Açú city, São Paulo state, Brasil. A love to listen banjo music ❤

[@craggyisland3]

Absolutely splendid Niilo !

[@lsearls1]

That was sooooo nice.You play so well.Loved it so much.Cant believe you have no comments for this.Keep them coming.

[@NiiloSirola]

+lsearls1 Thanks, much obliged :)

[@haroldcorcoran7469]

very good mate nice tunes ,well done.

[@jamespennie9480]

love this great sounding banjo

[@dacisky]

Wonderful! I do enjoy playing hornpipipes on my hammer dulcimer. Yours so good and what a fine banjo!

[@michaelosullivan6801]

Very nice!

[@matthewmcquillan1686]

Michael O'Sullivan im a beginner that lovely playing ai am playing a clareen but the sound isnt anything like yours any tips many thanks

[@SoKKa706]

This is Great man!

[@NiiloSirola]

Thanks!

[@karenringer5995]

So loved this xxx

[@frankquinn1641]

I wish I could do that very good 👍

[@marygarner6706]

nice playing

[@southerncomfortuk]

👏👏lovely guitar chords as well 👍🙏🙏

[@NiiloSirola]

Thanks!

[@donalhackett5930]

Good playing but move the camera back a bit so we see the whole picture

[@NiiloSirola]

donal hackett Yep this angle zooms in to where the interesting stuff happens, but fair point still

[@jamesbrophy7116]

Just awesome.where can I find these tunes in tab form.beautiful picking.keep it flowing.

[@NiiloSirola]

Thanks! The link to the sheet music for these is in the in the description. I haven't seen collections of tenor banjo tabs anywhere and they're a bit more laborious to produce than the notes. I guess as these trad tunes are always played in open position there really is only one way to fret a certain note, so not much advantage in tabs over notes. (if you can read it that is)

[@jamesbrophy7116]

@@NiiloSirola I'm teaching myself to play and don't read sheet music.I guess I will have to learn that as well saying that I do have a very good ear.PS is the last tune actually called where's the wife and thanks a million for the reply.......

[@MartinPickers]

*“To” …..typing on an iPad can be hard 🤣

[@NiiloSirola]

@@jamesbrophy7116 I also can't read notes fast enough to play by them, and have learned most of the tunes by ear, but it's good to be able to read them to check some details. The last tune seems to be a bit obscure, the hand-written sheet I have for that is titled "Hornpipe II" and "Where's the Wife" was the only suggestion of a name I found when trying to identify the tune. Apparently someone recorded it in the 1970s (thesession.org/tunes/10736)

[@micklenihan5206]

Bliss no other word needs to be said

[@frankking7154]

Where's the wife sounds like the wolftones song :broad black brimmer.

[@gregduff1458]

I'm trying to replicate your sound. I bought myself the same banjo it's a step up from my sx banjo. I think you have a great way of playing. I have ripped some of your sets and listen to them in the car hope u don't mind. are you hooked up to a speaker. what strings do u use.

[@NiiloSirola]

Much obliged! I'm not using amplification, I just stick a mic in front. My strings are D'Addario LE011 - LE018PB - LE026PB - LE036P, and I use a 0.73mm Dunlop plectrum. After that I guess it's down to the right hand technique - where and which angle you pick etc.. I tend to pick quite close to the bridge and slightly mute the strings over the bridge with my palm to stop them ringing all over the place. I'm self-learned and this seemed to work the best for me...

[@ballygeale1]

Wish I could play a banjo

[@NiiloSirola]

Surely that can be arranged? :D

[@TheJofrica]

Very nice!

[@NiiloSirola]

Thanks!

[@TheJofrica]

@@NiiloSirola Welcome! I subscribed