Lilting Banshee [Jig] - Tune of the Month with Shannon Heaton 

Ha! You are welcome to any of those variation ideas. Maybe someday I'll get to hear YOURS.

So glad we can lift one another up! Thanks for learning these tunes and for connecting here.

good to get some rest first!

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@Raphael Dean instablaster :)

@Case Leonard I really appreciate your reply. I found the site through google and Im waiting for the hacking stuff atm. Seems to take a while so I will reply here later when my account password hopefully is recovered.

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LOVE that you're hunkering down... and you're making progress! Thanks for sharing these wonderful old tunes with us. Great to have us playing them in our own spheres.

Thank you, I really wish you could include the tune names in the video info text. It is really hard to search for tunes by title

​@@paulneary2111 - Thanks for the thought, Paul. I want this to work easily for you. Can you please clarify where you do NOT see the tune title? I named the vid "Learning Irish Flute - Tune of the Month with Shannon Heaton - Lilting Banshee [Jig]” And here’s what I wrote in video info text: “Here's “Lilting Banshee,” a common session tune. I teach this A Modal jig phrase by phrase *and* then I put it in an ensemble context. As always, I’m playing this on my Patrick Olwell Pratten-style flute."

Thanks, David. I mean, it's ALL easy. And none of it is easy. Like peeling layers of an onion!

Hello, Judit! So glad you are getting into Irish flute. I love my Patrick Olwell Pratten-style flute, so I admit that I haven't tried a lot of other instruments out there (I'm already happy with I have). But I recently published this discussion of good entry-level flutes, featuring my knowledgable friend Blayne Chastain: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-pU6rsHMCBVc.html

Dear Shannon, was this Olwell flute your begginer or entry level flute as Well? It seems to be the most popular flute ☘️ Thanks for your kind answer

@@almatka1 I began on an old German flute with a big crack in the head joint. I had to fill it with beeswax before playing. And the finger holes were very small--it was a lot of work to get a big strong sound. It was so great to go to the Olwell after this.

Shannon Heaton unfortunately I received an e-mail from Olwell that if wanted a flute with key I have to wait 7 years there is a long Waiting list. A flute without keys is a year Waiting list. Seery Flutes are more affordable. There is no Waiting list. I was told as a beginner I would not use the keys since most tunes do not need it. So Olwell is Probably very good but Waiting 7 years is just so unreal. I mean it is a long Time. I was told that as a beginner I would be ok with a keyless Seery flute in D.

@@almatka1 Agreed-- a keyless flute would be great. There are many fine entry-level flutes, including the ones that Blayne discussed in that video. They aren't just "beginner" instruments. They are nice flutes that you could play for quite a long time!

You never know how those creative inspirations will work out... sometimes the variations teeter on the brink of excellence. Sometimes they derail everything!