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Chuck_Clark wrote:Admittedly I'm not stoned as I might well have been in the sixties, but for the life of me I can't see why you guys say it appears to be moving.

Chuck, you aren't color blind, by any chance? I don't think it works if you can't see the green/blue difference.

Having a spouse with severe clinical depression, it sounds to me as if your lack of whistle interest is merely a side effect. I am in the same situation as tommyk, and had the same immediate initial reaction as I read your post. It would be a very good idea to talk to a professional in case this is...

This is the way I think this thing went down: The city wanted to quit having styrofoam cups at city events, because they were tired of cleaning up the wet foam out of the watershed (the wildlife probably weren't so happy about it, either). They sent a paralegal or two on a search for anything that c...

vomitbunny wrote:I need to find some unique material to make whistles out of though. I was thinking about hard cheese. Or cane. It's a toss up.

Hollow out a carrot. It's already conical!

VB: What did you do to the clip scartaglen.mp3?
It has an unusual "swirly" sound on my computer.
Is that an electronic effect, or some way you're playing (what I'm assuming is a Jubilee practice Low D), or am I just hearing things?

I followed different plans and made a very sweet sounding C whistle... it is one of my favorites. What plans did you follow, Nico? Cennedie: I started the bloody hands, but found my drill does ugly things to copper pipes. May try my dremmel next time, as vomit bunny says. I could not find the right...

I can start the notes of the second octave, but when I increase the breath pressure to keep the note going, it falls apart You'd be surprised how much embouchure helps (it's not just for Flutes!) When I get lazy, my lips loosen up and my tone suffers. Try changing the shape of your lips while sound...

But the whole hype around that steerage scene, which whatever way you look at it was very poor playing, just begs the odd pinprick. Wow, yet another reason why I will never see this movie. Thanks, all. I want GS to live in my mind the way I saw them at Duke. They didn't suck then, I swear. I probab...

Hmm, what I really want to know is whether "Si" is masculine or femine. I have wondered this myself, but the only Irish word for "hill" I could find in any online dictionary was "cnoc". Interestingly, a Scots Gaelic dictionary found the word "sí", which meant...

My last name is Deese. You'd think this would be easy, there's only 3 letters. It's the repeating that's a problem.
I once got a pizza delivered, and on the box was typed "Name: Decsv" Try pronouncing that one! :roll:

BrassBlower wrote:And I almost forgot Tears for Beers with their thickly-overdriven electric fiddle!

Tears for Beers. Haven't heard those guys since I stopped going to MP3.com! They still playing?
They always sounded really drunk to me... can't get more traditional than that, I guess.

mcfeeley wrote:So the bard did sing of these Fairy Hills
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And so the harper was told of these Fairy Tales
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These lines seem to reference Turlough O'Carolan, so I wonder if the song predates this poem...?

I guess I should say that when I saw Tempest in Elko last summer, I was so pissed off because I would never get those two hours of my life back that they stole (Just to verify, this is the same Tempest, "celtic-fusion-we-wanted-to-be-metallica-with-a-fiddle-and-double-necked mandolin-thingie-b...

It struggles to even be considered Irish really, let alone Celtic. What does that even mean? For most Irish traditionalists that I know, saying something is "Celtic" music generally implies that it is a modernized version of any British Isles (or even trad continental European) music. So,...

While Titanic can be blamed for many things, I appreciate the fact that it gave Gaelic Storm a real boost in popularity (in fact, it's pretty much responsible for anyone having heard of them at all!) I saw Gaelic Storm at Duke University a year or two after the film came out. They were apparantly as...