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And the Copeland with the previous owner's name scratched onto it in extremely amateur fashion :roll: ??

Trisha

What systems do people use at sessions to record the odd tune to work on at a later date? I find after say a festival weekend my head is just buzzing with disjointed A parts and snatches of B!! And in case there are copyright issues I'm not talking concerts, merely traditional music sessions.

Trisha

Don't know whether the Pro has changed, but I play Copeland Low D, old-style Kerry Pro, and a new low D by Phil Hardy all with finger tips and can't imagine playing them any differently.

Trisha

Id'd . Ah well...

What was this thread about again? Bloomfield, please correct me if wrong: 1 - You actually do have, paid (dearly) for, and played and reviewed an actual Davey Spillane low D whistle. 2 - Said whistle is unremarkable in appearance, lacking both any original touches and the maker's name, logo, number...

Aaah Concertina net's convertor....why can I never get the pdf's to print out with the stave lines !!??

Trisha

Whistle and sax aren't so different on basic fingering..it's that F natural and F sharp you need to watch for. It took me ages to get it right on sax! My horn plays a two fingered C natural nearly on pitch if I'm having a bad day too .

Trisha

They vary...a lot. I have two nickel high D's and you wouldn't know they were the same whistle.

Trisha

Depends where they keep their termites. I have a friend whose daughter ( a talented fiddle player) is taking her fiddle to Central America for her gap year next autumn. Termites did cross my mind...

Trisha

I don't need to, but it reassures me that I'm staying at a consistant tempo,not speeding up or anything. I would most likely have consistant tempo anyway,but this way I'm sure. My sax teacher refutes this - it's one of my whistle habits that drives him nuts. He says it's impossible to keep steady f...

As a mother of five children aged 3-15, with two universtiy educated parents, it worries me to see parents pushing their children forward and pigeonholing them as gifted, advanced, whatever. Stress is really bad for children as it is for adults. Just look to Japan and the suicide rates in teens. Our...

Try as I might, I still prefer my Kilhoury (quite an old one with a newish block). Wonderful whistle, but not stable under odd conditions which is where I trust the Pro. Two minor niggles with the Pro...it's a bit wobbly around the joint if tuned more than a tad out...in all directions so I guess so...

Dunno, I just brainwash all mine with Irish/English/Welsh/World folk. I have five between three and fifteen...the three year old sings jigs to herself, my son at 8 loves folk music, the 11 and 13 yo think Eliza Carthy's great, and even the eldest likes The Corrs over most modern drivel (I don't, but...

Long enough so they don't desert me half way through an A part in a session :oops: :oops: . And hereabouts I find this amnesia to be infectious. If it happens to one person in a small session, it's very likely to happen to almost everyone in some way that evening. Must be something in the beer!!! Tr...

I have a narrowbore D+ made as a car whistle (living along with a Hoover brass, Feadog double nickel and Gen Eb nickel....). Paul made two and kept one. It does clog IF I'm in too much hurry to play it from cold, but serves it's purpose. The ordinary bore D+ is the only one of my whistles my 15yo da...