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SANDMOUNT, THE. AKA – “Sandymount Reel.” AKA and see "Mick Hand's Reel,” “Sandpiper (The).” Irish, Reel (cut or whole time). A Dorian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. Tin whistle player Mary Bergin recorded the tune in 1979 as "Mick Hand's Reel." Recorded by the Ballinakill Céilí Band [1] (East Galway) in Dublin, 1938. The band’s founding members were Anna Rafferty, Stephen Maloney, Tommy Whelan, Tommy Whyte, and Jerry Maloney.
Additional notes
Source for notated version: -
Printed sources : - Breathnach (CRÉ III), 1986; No. 170. Vallely (Learn to Play the Tin Whistle with the Armagh Pipers Club, vol. 2), 1976; No. 29, p. 17.
Recorded sources: - Global Village C 502, Martin Mulvihill - "Humors of Glin" (1986). Larraga LR093098, Mike and Mary Rafferty - "The Old Fireside Music" (1998). Shanachie 79001, De Danann - "Selected Jigs, Reels and Songs" (1978).
See also listing at:
Alan Ng's Irishtune.info [2]
Hear the Ballinakill Céilí Band's 1938 recording at the Comhaltas Archive [3] (2nd tune in medley, following "Eileen Curran (1)").
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