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Hello Bill and Mack: It is great to meet at the old watering hole once again. I am trying to recharge the batteries that used to enable me to transpose written music--in this case, The Adagio from Rodrigo's Concerto De Aranjuez, in key of D to play on a low A whistle. Tricky for this old geezer. New...

Thank You Mack!!

We still walk the earth!!

Go on us.

Hello Folks: I have not been here for a while. Cannot explain why. Covid? Old age? Sloth? In any event, I prevailed upon an old friend for the use of some of his photographic images, primarily because I did not have a sufficient stock of my own stuff to go with the story I think the tune tells. Beau...

Hello Bill: Thank you for those kind words. If you go to YOUTUBE and enter "Yarborough and Dowling" in the search window, all of the 12 songs--actually, 11 songs and one tune--will display. Look for the distinctive 'upside down' smiling young lady and you will be able to listen to each tra...

I am very happy to announce that the album I co-produced with my most excellent friend, Chad Yarborough, has been launched. I am most grateful that Chad asked me to play on this album, which contains 12 of his original songs. We used a good recording studio right here in Brooklyn. I am happy to be a...

Thank you. I found the Announcements and the policies contained therein. I did see the STYLE suggestion and got rid of the all caps in the subject line. So, at this time the album in on CD Baby and I-Tunes. There are whistles on every track and it is original stuff. I would like to post a link to th...

Hello Board & Administrators: A while back I inadvertently posted an inquiry that veered into an area that was not appropriate for the board. (It pertained to some hand problems I was having--no more of that.) A friend and I recently released an album on 12 original songs that are not 'pure drop...

Would appreciate any additional tips you may have learned recently. ... provided it doesn't amount to medical advice - Mod. At the time I posted my inquiry, I was not aware of the Board's view of stuff that touches on the medical. It was not my intent to solicit medical advice. However, I have beco...

Thank you Busterbill. I meant sudden onset, not early. It came on quickly as opposed to gradually.

Thank you for that. Some PM's have been coming in and I appreciate the suggestions I have gotten.

Early/Sudden Onset of Arthritis of the Hands and/or Fingers: I would be interested in communicating, probably by PM, with folks who have experienced or are experiencing sudden onset and increasingly severe arthritic pain in the hands and/or fingers. I am also interested in what I call 'trigger fing...

Hello LI Whistler:

Thank you for your good intentions and willingness to assist me with that request.

Be Well,

Tom Dowling
(a Brooklyn Whistler)

Thank you for that link. That page sure looks like the dozen or so that are squirreled away here somewhere. I will be able to send the whistle out with a lighter heart.

Again, my thanks,

Tom Dowling

I will admit to a sloppy record retention weakness. I am trading a really fine Michael Burke whistle in a key that I do not use for a whistle of, I hope, comparable quality, in a key that I do use. I want the person with whom I am doing this trade to have the diagram/instruction sheet that Michael s...