The Sister’s Reel
Also known as
Mary MacMahonMary MacMahon'sMary McMahon Of BallinahinchMary McMahon Of BallynahinchMary McMahon'sMaureen GlynnMicho Russell'sMiko Russell'sMiss Mary McMahon Of Ballinahinch
Key
D Mixolydian
Type
Reel
Level
BIA
Instrument
Irish Flute
About this tune
The reel Blayne teaches as "The Sister's Reel" is more widely catalogued as "Mary McMahon," and it carries a clutch of other names besides — "Micho Russell's" among them, after the Doolin tin whistle player who kept it in play. It reached print early in Bulmer and Sharpley's Music from Ireland, vol. 2 (1974), and Breandán Breathnach later included it, untitled, in Ceol Rince na hÉireann.
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Lesson segments
- 1:27
- 1:42
- 6:08
- 9:23
- 11:20
- 10:34
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