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Watch this man named Kinsella play. He is great.

http://www.rte.ie/tv/thefullset/av_20070713.html


Jim

Sounds great! I looked at a number of your videos.

Jim

I wonder if you could take off the top of the bag pipe chanter, exposing its reed, and this would approximate the sound of the bombarde? I have seen others put their lips at the reed base, and sound will come out.

Anyone tried this?

My olivewood Busman arrived! It is beautiful in olivewood. Perfectly tuned and easy in the second octave. Workmanship is great. Paul is a real gem to deal with. Very prompt. I have never met him.

Jim

Can someone point me to a good source (online or published) of tunes and lyrics for English ballads? (Elizabethan and Ren eras mostly). Is there some equivalent to O'Neil's?

Jim

Does anyone have a whislte score for the mariachi song, "Guadaljara"?

Easy to play. Found it on ABC tune finder. Very sweet and melodic.

I saw my first sessions on Saturday at Irish Fest at about 4pm. With 25 or so musicians, there were only 3 whistles, Copeland, and 2 of wood. Boy, were there a lot of violins! Do sessions ratios tend to be like that?

Is there sheet music of the melody, so I could try it on my whistle?

Anyone know where I can get this? Is is copyrighted?

This man makes ceramic ocarinas...
http://www.sixthstreetpottery.com

Got mine today. Been waiting since last August. It is beautiful. He shipped last Wednesday.

Have others experienced a flat D in the second octave when using OXX-XXX? How do you get a brighter D, just by blowing harder? Can the barrel be shortened, or will that make all the notes higher?