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X: 1 T:Sandymount Reel, The T:Mick Hand's R:reel D:De Danann: Selected Jigs & Reels D:Mary Bergin: Feadoga Stain D:Dervish: Harmony Hill Z:id:hn-reel-377 M:C| F:http://norbeck.nu/abc/i/hnr3.abc K:Ador eAAG ~A3G|EGDG EGDG|EAAG A2 (3Bcd|egfa gedg:| eaag a2ba|gede gedg|eaag a2ga|bagb ~a3g| eaag a2ba|gedB dega|bgaf gefd|~e3d e2ag|| P:variations eA~A2 ABAG|EGDG EGDG|EA~A2 ABcd|egfa gedg| eA~A2 ABAG|EGDG EGDG|EA~A2 ABcd|(3efg fa gbag|| ea~a2 ~a3f|gede gedg|ea~a2 aega|bagb ~a3g| ea~a2 ~a3f|gedB dega|bggf gafg|~e2dg eaag|| P:more variations eAAG ABAG|EGDG EGDG|EAAG A2fd|e2ae gbag| eAAG ABAG|EGDG EGDG|EAAG ABcd|e2ae gedg|| ea~a2 agba|ge~e2 gedg|eaag ~a2ga|bagb ~a3g| eaag ~a3f|gedB dega|bgaf g2fg|~e2dg eaag||

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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