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- Fri Apr 26, 2024 9:57 am
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Whistle Forum
- Topic: Case to repurpose to hold low D and a few other whistles
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1691
Re: Case to repurpose to hold low D and a few other whistles
I use a case for a camera tripod. Holds low D, low C, mezzo G and a few higher whistles
- Mon Mar 18, 2024 3:19 am
- Forum: Flute Forum
- Topic: Wassup with connecting to C&F
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1333
Re: Wassup with connecting to C&F
Whoo hoo and a huzzah as well! You don't realise how much you appreciate something until it's gone, so bloody well done to whoever fixed it.
- Tue Feb 06, 2024 8:58 am
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Whistle Forum
- Topic: A New Instrument... the Pianoflute! (Anyone want to make it?)
- Replies: 35
- Views: 2979
Re: A New Instrument... the Pianoflute! (Anyone want to make it?)
Not quite what the OP was proposing but Sarah Jeffery (Team Recorder) did a video last year about the Hellcorder, the recorder-based guitar amplifier .. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pc67IJZr9o The original Hellcorder video is at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuB2tH-wnXY but Sarah's reactions a...
- Mon Jan 22, 2024 1:28 pm
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Whistle Forum
- Topic: Low Whistle Player
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2654
Re: Low Whistle Player
[citation needed]
- Thu Jan 04, 2024 10:30 am
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Whistle Forum
- Topic: Goldie whistles prove that perfection is possible
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1259
Re: Goldie whistles prove that perfection is possible
Agreed 100%. I've owned my Goldie low D for many years, have tried loads of other makers' examples since, and nothing has ever come close. There's Goldie whistles, and then ... there's everything else.
- Thu Aug 24, 2023 7:42 am
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Whistle Forum
- Topic: Suggestions - Low D or Low G?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1741
Re: Suggestions - Low D or Low G?
Low D. As you get into specific situations where a whistle in another key would be useful, you'll find out what that extra key (or keys) of whistle will be - but a low D is the standard which will get you a long way in standard session / small group work as the majority of tunes played in their most...
- Thu Jul 06, 2023 11:09 am
- Forum: Irish Traditional Music Forum
- Topic: The history of Irish dance
- Replies: 6
- Views: 7608
Re: The history of Irish dance
As they say on Wikipedia, [citation needed]. I know practically nothing about Irish dance other than Riverdance and the old jokes about the lost manual 'Volume 2: the upper body movements'. But as soon as anyone starts asserting that anything traditional dance related links back to sun worshipping, ...
- Wed Jul 05, 2023 11:03 am
- Forum: Flute Forum
- Topic: Who makes a Delrin Piccolo keyless in D?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1390
Re: Who makes a Delrin Piccolo keyless in D?
I can't find any, either. Tony Dixon has a polymer piccolo, but I don't know how "good" it is. The Tony Dixon piccolos are OK - nice and light but a good strong sound. Go for the tuneable one. https://www.tonydixonmusic.co.uk/product-category/piccolos/ I wouldn't play it in preference to ...
- Tue Jun 06, 2023 2:30 am
- Forum: Non-Uilleann Piping
- Topic: Emphasising the 1
- Replies: 2
- Views: 6392
Emphasising the 1
I'm looking to improve my playing of (Jonathan Swayne style single drone border) pipes for dancing. It's been said that the constant sound of the pipes don't give a sufficient emphasis on the 1, the first beat of the bar, to help the dancers keep in time and feel the beat. Has anyone got any tips fo...
- Thu Mar 30, 2023 1:50 am
- Forum: Flute Forum
- Topic: What are the first couple of Tunes you play to start off your practicing?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2135
Re: What are the first couple of Tunes you play to start off your practicing?
For me it's not a tune but a warmup which gets my embouchure dialed in quickly. I learned it from professional Boehm fluteplayers. The short version is just playing Bottom D. Start as quietly as possible, build to as loud as possible, and return to as quiet as possible, all on a single long breath,...
- Wed Mar 08, 2023 5:48 am
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Whistle Forum
- Topic: best low D please UK
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1845
Re: best low D please UK
If you've got such extremely small hands that pipers grip doesn't work for you, you should look at the Susato whistles that can be customised for small hands.
For everyone else the low whistle to go for is a Goldie, nothing else comes close in expressiveness and sheer playability.
For everyone else the low whistle to go for is a Goldie, nothing else comes close in expressiveness and sheer playability.
- Tue Feb 21, 2023 5:39 am
- Forum: Flute Forum
- Topic: Piccolo Question/Recommendation
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1353
Re: Piccolo Question/Recommendation
+1 for Musique Morneaux.
They took over the Ralph Sweet business when Ralph retired, and I've therefore effectively been playing their D keyless piccolos for over 30 years now with consistently splendid results (that's the instruments, not necessarily my playing of them).
They took over the Ralph Sweet business when Ralph retired, and I've therefore effectively been playing their D keyless piccolos for over 30 years now with consistently splendid results (that's the instruments, not necessarily my playing of them).
- Wed Feb 15, 2023 10:50 am
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Whistle Forum
- Topic: You're stranded on an ireland...
- Replies: 18
- Views: 3136
Re: You're stranded on an ireland...
My Colin Goldie, no contest.
- Fri Feb 10, 2023 4:41 am
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Whistle Forum
- Topic: Mad Max's Generation
- Replies: 43
- Views: 5619
Re: Mad Max's Generation
There's perhaps an irony here too, stringbed. Just as the flageolet "slipped, slowly but surely, into obsolescence", the whistle was blossoming into great popularity. Is my memory playing tricks, but didn't Generation used to market their tin whistles as flageolets? It wasn't until much l...
- Mon Feb 06, 2023 3:32 pm
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Whistle Forum
- Topic: Mad Max's Generation
- Replies: 43
- Views: 5619
Re: Mad Max's Generation
It's come up before, http://forums.chiffandfipple.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=108663&p=1218608#p1218608, with a report that Mel plays the whistle, but no more backstory on how it got into the movie. Could be a continuity snafu - Mel was playing some tunes between takes, stuck it on the dashboar...