The Green Island - a hornpipe in D Major, tabbed for mandolin and played by Aidan Crossey

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10 September 2021. I stumbled upon this hornpipe recently in a setting at thesession.org as transcribed by one of that site's most prolific transcribers, JACKB. I was immediately taken by it. What is it about some tunes that instantly hook the listener/player in? What bell do they ring? What button do they push?

Why "revisited"? In early June 2021 I took the opportunity to review the sound quality of the sound files in the videos which I posted to this channel when I first established it in November 2020. My original recordings were made with recording equipment which was a little more primitive than my current set-up and I hadn't figured out how to remove ambient noise from the sound files. I'm now using a Zoom H1n digital recorder and I clean away ambient noise and normalise the sound file to -3dB using Audacity software. I'm also playing better instruments than the Eastman MD304 which features on those early recordings. Therefore I decided to re-record the "offending" sound files with updated and improved versions. From time to time in these "revisited" videos I will play the tunes in both a mandolin version and a tenor guitar version, each of which will hopefully spotlight different aspects of the tune in question. I hope these new recordings are easier on the ear and a better aid to learning tunes than the original sound files.

Notated, tabbed for mandolin and played on his Falder mandolin by Aidan Crossey. More on this and many other tunes from the Irish musical tradition at www.TheIrishMandolin.com - follow the link to "learn some tunes".

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