bucks reel on hulusi

Subject: bucks reel on hulusi
From: The Sandman
Date: 02 Feb 21 - 03:45 AM

Bucks of Oranmore on chinese instrument
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCB_ibqCCbk

Subject: RE: bucks reel on hulusi
From: Jack Campin
Date: 02 Feb 21 - 03:56 AM

I wasn't very impressed. A hulusi is pretty easy to play and he could have done it with far more fluidity.

Subject: RE: bucks reel on hulusi
From: Johnny J
Date: 02 Feb 21 - 05:09 AM

I'll take your word that a hulusi is an easy instrument to play.

It sounded OK to me but it wouldn't have been my first instrument of choice to play "The Bucks". The young man will obviously not be as "grounded" in the Irish tradition either. So, all in all, I think it was a fair enough rendition.

Subject: RE: bucks reel on hulusi
From: The Sandman
Date: 02 Feb 21 - 06:07 AM

Yes i agree, johnny j oranamentation good, did not interfee with danceabilty

Subject: RE: bucks reel on hulusi
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 02 Feb 21 - 06:11 AM

I might have been a bit more impressed had he stopped at the end of the first playthrough... :-)

Subject: RE: bucks reel on hulusi
From: The Sandman
Date: 02 Feb 21 - 06:23 AM

It is still a good version, even if he did not vary ornamentation, Jack how about giving us a better version OF THE BUCKS on the helusi since you say it is easy to play

Subject: RE: bucks reel on hulusi
From: The Sandman
Date: 02 Feb 21 - 06:32 AM

The simple rule of ornamenting a phrase and next time playing it straight, provides more variety ,it is true, but i thought for someone who has only had a limited time to absorb styles, he did quite well, and he clearly is enjoying himself playing, which is one of the most important elements.

Subject: RE: bucks reel on hulusi
From: leeneia
Date: 02 Feb 21 - 01:28 PM

Thanks for sharing, Sandman. It is interesting to see that an instrument that I assumed shares nothing with Western music can play a traditional reel.

Subject: RE: bucks reel on hulusi
From: Jack Campin
Date: 03 Feb 21 - 04:43 AM

It's basically a soft-blowing practice chanter with drones added. Any colour so long as it's black and any key so long as it's B flat. It doesn't overblow so the very top notes are fingered differently from a whistle, but any whistle player could pick it up at once.

I like the ba-wu more.

Subject: RE: bucks reel on hulusi
From: GUEST,Peter Laban
Date: 03 Feb 21 - 05:32 AM

'It is interesting to see that an instrument that I assumed shares nothing with Western music can play a traditional reel.'

You may want to have a look at this man from Coprk playing the Jkaen:

Bird in the bush

Craig's pipes

Gold Ring

Subject: RE: bucks reel on hulusi
From: leeneia
Date: 03 Feb 21 - 11:12 AM

Thanks, Peter. That's equally interesting.

Subject: RE: bucks reel on hulusi
From: GUEST,Peter Laban
Date: 03 Feb 21 - 11:23 AM

You're welcome. I see see I wasn't in typing form this morning: man from Cork playing a Khaen

Subject: RE: bucks reel on hulusi
From: meself
Date: 03 Feb 21 - 12:27 PM

Thanks, Dick. I'm not so deeply immersed in Irish music that I can't enjoy that, and I love the sound of the hulusi anyway. I picked one up in Beijing some years ago, and fooled around with some slower tunes on it, but never put in the time to learn a bona fide reel on it. Now it serves mainly as a conversation-piece sitting on top of the piano .....

It is an 'easy' instrument to play, like the tin whistle or recorder, but like any instrument, it's not easy to sound like the masters.

Subject: RE: bucks reel on hulusi
From: meself
Date: 03 Feb 21 - 12:33 PM

And thanks, Peter. I've been planning on learning to play the khaen very early on in my next life for a while now .....

Subject: RE: bucks reel on hulusi
From: The Sandman
Date: 03 Feb 21 - 02:31 PM

yes, peter, excellent playing

Subject: RE: bucks reel on hulusi
From: Jack Campin
Date: 06 Feb 21 - 01:03 PM

Nice clean hulusi playing on a Chinese tune. The descending slides are un-Irish but the strikes could fit in perfectly.

https://youtu.be/dWxzea8Jhoc

Subject: RE: bucks reel on hulusi
From: The Sandman
Date: 09 Feb 21 - 02:24 PM

the other two clips were good and peters clip illustrarted the point about being immersed in a style
your clip although intersting as an example of chines music is irrelevant , why do you not just start a new thread
It is not an irish reel, being played on the hulusi

Subject: RE: bucks reel on hulusi
From: Manitas_at_home
Date: 09 Feb 21 - 03:19 PM

It's a perfectly appropriate clip demonstrating how a hulusi is normally played. Dick, if you don't want people to comment on threads you start then the best thing is not to start them.

Subject: RE: bucks reel on hulusi
From: The Sandman
Date: 09 Feb 21 - 03:23 PM

No ,Manitas, why not start , a thread on just how a hulusi is normally played ,
it deserves its own thread, since it is nothing to do with playing an irish reel on the hulusi.