Hi Noreen,

I just checked the link I posted and it works for me on Firefox but your link is to the same version from the same CD, so that's good.

I have assumed that the harp solo is Derek Bell and I haven't tracked my CD down yet to confirm it, but the CD cover (shown on the video link) says A Tribute to Edward Bunting, with the Belfast Harp Orchestra so I may be making an incorrect assumption. It sounds like Derek Bell's style but I'll find the CD and check.

Will Fly, thanks for outlining your method for learning tunes.

I can listen to a piece over and over, and cannot seem to pick up the tune on the flute at all, can do it sometimes on the harp if there are not a lot of accidentals (fiddle-faddling with sharping levers while trying to work out a tune is very distracting) but I have discovered that I can learn tunes very quickly on the ukulele. I think it's because the notes are linear, unlike a piano with white and black notes and the harp with sharping levers. I know I am a slave to the dots, but I am attempting to overcome this. It's useful knowing both methods, I think, but I am not a natural at picking up tunes by ear so I have to work harder on that method.

This thread has alerted me to something which confused me. I tried a few times to find the music for The Blackbird but everything I found didn't really match what I had heard on the CD by The Chieftains so I gave up. I now know, thanks to this thread, that there are probably as many versions of the tune as there are musicians playing it.

Thanks everyone,
Helen