Devanney's Goat REVISITED - a reel in D Major tabbed for mandolin and played by Aidan Crossey

19 February 2022. A reel which I was urged to learn many years ago at a session by a veteran fiddler. A lovely man, wise and gentle. Lavish in his praise for those starting out on the path; lavish also with his kind criticisms. (Because both are necessary...)

Why "revisited"? In early June 2021 I took the opportunity to review the sound quality of the sound files in the videos which I posted to this channel when I first established it in November 2020. My original recordings were made with recording equipment which was a little more primitive than my current set-up and I hadn't figured out how to remove ambient noise from the sound files. I'm now using a Zoom H1n digital recorder and I clean away ambient noise and normalise the sound file to -3dB using Audacity software. I'm also playing different instruments to the Eastman MD304 which features on those early recordings and which has since been sold. Therefore I decided to re-record the "offending" sound files with updated and improved versions. From time to time in these "revisited" videos I will play the tunes in both a mandolin version(s) and a tenor guitar version, each of which will hopefully spotlight different aspects of the tune in question. I hope these new recordings are easier on the ear and a better aid to learning tunes than the original sound files.

Also my original "policy" when making these tune learning videos was to play each tune through once - allowing the viewer ro rewind, replay, etc at will. However it's virtually unheard of in Irish music circles for tunes to be played through once only. So my current policy is to play each tune at least twice-through and I will occasionally revisit tunes whose sound quality was good enough for the purposes of tune learning but which were originally played through only once...

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