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McGoldrick playing "Trip to Herve's" on a low F (solo):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LBfRjZcmjo

Excellent thread - lots of helpful info. Thanks everyone! I've had tinnitus since I was a child, and after reading some of the other accounts here and I am grateful that mine is balanced between both ears and has only very high frequencies (10Khz+). I think that has made it easier to ignore over the...

NicoMoreno wrote:Ok, to be fair, it was decent playing, just not really irish.

But then The Glasgow isn't an Irish reel, is it?

There's only one reel that I can think of that is genuinely an abomination, but since it's terribly difficult to play on whistle (or any other instrument, if you were to judge simply by the appalling cacophony generated by just about everyone tasteless enough to play it) ... Tam Lin. Tam Lin (the G...

My Chieftain tunable A is one of my favorites. Spot-on in tune and very sweet sound with good chiff.

Current retail is $180.

I bought a "dozen hi-low" bag from her about 6 months ago... it is fantastic. Beautiful and functional - I couldn't be happier.

If you are wondering why most whistlers prefer a cylindrical bore over a more accurate conical bore, my opinion is that the cylindrical bore is more "versatile". A player can "pitch bend" a cylindrical whistle to correct for flat notes in the upper registers and retain a 3 or 4 ...

Great stuff, Bo! You've got a new fan (on MySpace anyways)...

I tend to set my PA volume on a low D, playing very close, then I gradually back off as I get up the scale... up to a foot away (or at least off-axis) in the high octave on the high D.

Hmm. Do you have two pairs of hands, or do you play with your toes? If you follow the instructions in the PDF it only requires two whistles and two hands... Thanks Hatao... I may actually give this circus stunt a whirl. (It's certainly the only way my band would ever consider doing "Danny Boy&...

+1. Sweet tone, spot on in tune.

My new favorite, for less than 20% of what I spent on my last Chieftain...

breqwas wrote:K: D
M: 3/4
agB2c2|feG2A2|edF2A2|d6

And what do you play to make people around you feel perplexed?

Paddy Moloney's "cell phone" trick is even more effective than that...
(cover holes 1,3,4 with one hand; trill hole 2 as fast as you can with the other hand)

Someone put up a bunch of excellent Vinnie Kilduff videos about 3 months ago:

http://www.youtube.com/user/VinnieKilduff2008

Awesome.

I have used the "Sunshine Cloth" available on eBay with excellent results. Very similar product...

chas wrote:Susato makes Db whistles, which would be the equivalent of D at A415. It's possible you inadvertently received a Db.

That would be correct - 415.3 Hz is a perfectly in tune Ab. (chart)

You received a perfectly tuned Db whistle.

Great idea, nice Flash programming, great players and playing...

But there are some boneheaded errors, such as Saddle the Pony music in the wrong key (music in D but played in G)...