I am not sure he still is. The Doolin unit has had its share of problems and was stood down for a while. A lot of volunteers have left or have been given the boot.You might know that Davy S. is involved with the Irish Coast Guard
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- Mon May 13, 2024 3:37 am
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Whistle Forum
- Topic: Trying to buy Between Longing and Belonging - Davy Spillane
- Replies: 2
- Views: 166
Re: Trying to buy Between Longing and Belonging - Davy Spillane
- Thu May 09, 2024 7:46 am
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Whistle Forum
- Topic: Advice on using a whistle with a solid lead block on fipple
- Replies: 14
- Views: 473
Re: Advice on using a whistle with a solid lead block on fipple
Are you sure? It seems very unlikely. I have never seen a wooden fippleblock in this type of whistle. Solid lead plugs seem to have been de rigreur at the time.All 3 appear to have a wooden block inside.
- Wed May 01, 2024 12:36 am
- Forum: Flute Forum
- Topic: Sam Murray - RIP
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1083
Re: Sam Murray - RIP
Thanks for that link. I meant to add some more detail/recollections after I made the initial post of this thread (which I made, just after finding out the news, from a coffeshop in Dublin while on the move oñ Wednesday) but never really got round to it.
- Tue Apr 30, 2024 3:18 pm
- Forum: Flute Forum
- Topic: Flutes in Camden Market, London 80/90's's
- Replies: 8
- Views: 621
Re: Flutes in Camden Market, London 80/90's's
Both Steve Chambers and Paul Davis were selling instruments durinf the eighhies, not sure either of them had a market stall though. Stephen set up McNeill's in Dublin by the 90s.
- Mon Apr 29, 2024 5:09 am
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Whistle Forum
- Topic: Next progression from a Clark advice please
- Replies: 11
- Views: 701
Re: Next progression from a Clark advice please
Unless you plat tunes like the Connemara stockings or the Sailor's bonnet ofcourseIn dance tunes you pass through top B so briefly that it doesn't have the same impact,
- Sat Apr 27, 2024 9:13 am
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Whistle Forum
- Topic: Next progression from a Clark advice please
- Replies: 11
- Views: 701
Re: Next progression from a Clark advice please
Part of learning the whistle is learning to reinstall in the high notes and play them as gently as they will let you. Which is something that may take time. Between breathcontrol and a degree of shading there are things that you can achieve there. I would suggest not to fuss over your next whistle t...
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 9:02 am
- Forum: Flute Forum
- Topic: Sam Murray - RIP
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1083
Sam Murray - RIP
It is being reported elsewhere Sam Murray has died.
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 3:54 am
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Whistle Forum
- Topic: Generation B natural?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1117
Re: Generation B natural?
FWiW, another thread linked to Mac Nic whistles . They do a B (although named 'H' in the German fashion). At 60 euro perhaps a relatively "budget' option. Not a recommendation (I have not come across these 'in the flesh' or heard them played, so there's a caveat), but at least worth knowing abo...
- Sat Apr 20, 2024 7:01 am
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Whistle Forum
- Topic: Generation B natural?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1117
Re: Generation B natural?
Here's some guidance, to get you started, posted by Bill Haneman back in 2007 or so: An inexpensive alternative worth trying: As it happens, you can take a Bflat Generation and remove metal from both the top and bottom so that the top note is sharpened a semitone and the bottom note (all holes close...
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 6:41 am
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Whistle Forum
- Topic: Generation B natural?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1117
Re: Generation B natural?
They don't but a Bb is easily converted by cutting back both ends. 'How to' posts for both Bb-B and C-C# conversions have been made several times in the past.
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 9:59 am
- Forum: Uilleann Pipe forum
- Topic: Ebay Items
- Replies: 1854
- Views: 1206460
- Tue Apr 09, 2024 1:06 pm
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Whistle Forum
- Topic: Volume Control Ring - Why Doesn't it Exist??
- Replies: 6
- Views: 636
Re: Volume Control Ring - Why Doesn't it Exist??
Yes, much like thisQuarktäsche Deluxe wrote: ↑Tue Apr 09, 2024 10:07 am And they are doing it with their lips? You would have to take the whole mouthpiece in your mouth to do that...
- Sun Mar 31, 2024 2:58 pm
- Forum: Irish Traditional Music Forum
- Topic: Bothy Band re-form for "Celtic Connections" Jan.2024
- Replies: 6
- Views: 13793
Re: Bothy Band re-form for "Celtic Connections" Jan.2024
TG4 has a lovely documentary with the band preparing for the reunion and the full concert after. Airing right now.
An Bothy Band
An Bothy Band
- Sun Mar 31, 2024 3:26 am
- Forum: Flute Forum
- Topic: was there ever any attempts to make a flute with valves?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 817
Re: was there ever any attempts to make a flute with valves?
If you insist using the term, read description of 'aerophone' again and apply correctly.Oops. I should have said "reedless aerophone."
- Sat Mar 30, 2024 3:48 pm
- Forum: Flute Forum
- Topic: was there ever any attempts to make a flute with valves?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 817
Re: was there ever any attempts to make a flute with valves?
https://collectionapi.metmuseum.org/api/collection/v1/iiif/504684/1026600/main-image I think there are two reasons that brass instruments have valves, while other instruments (particularly aerophones) do not. .. aerophone, any of a class of musical instruments in which a vibrating mass of air produ...