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First of all I would like to ask Mr. Ng if he is familiar with a gentleman named O'Carolon? Seems this gentleman was really into Irish music and had the audacity to actually write a bunch of it down using notes and all that. Blaine, Carolan was blind, so I don't think he had much use for notes.

I've had a stab at recording a slowish version which I have sent to Ron and which Tony has posted on Clips and Snips.

A fine tune, that Lafferty's Reel.

That's a bit rich, coming from you.

It is amazing how much lift can be carried within octive and a second. Highland pipers know all about this... My Copeland A has a new purpose. Hey Mark, good thinking, thank you! You made me realize you can play the whole thing on an A whistle using E dorian and avoid having to fake or half-hole th...

FE & DrG: Drum and tabor - isn't that two ways of saying the same thing? Don't you mean <i>pipe</i> (aka 3-holed tin whistle) and tabor? BTW (totally OT) my favourite early drum are the nakers. A rock drummer in a dance band I used to play in once turned up at a gig with a couple slung from his ...

My intentions are not at all adversarial. Naturally. Nor were mine! If we were to promise to be seriously Irish, would we be welcome at one of your local sessions? But of course. (As long as you brought your whistles :wink:) With regard to volume, I'll let you into a secret. A prominent fixture of ...

Does this setting match the Irish setting for the key (here in a mode based on the A major scale) and # of parts?

Yes. The Scottish precursor of the tune is Sleepy Maggie, but what you have here is Jenny's Chickens.

Actually Emma, although on this board I'm sure the ribbing is mostly tongue in cheek, in the real world there may be an undercurrent of truth. One reason, I would suggest, lies in the recorder's volume. A good baroque-style recorder, not to mention a Renaissance-style one, will completely drown out ...

I know someone who amuses himself by playing the whistle left-handed. He's got quite good at it. But then, he's a very proficient uillean piper and reedmaker, which shows he likes a challenge. I found just now I could manage a slow Off to California but only by thinking about each note, which hurts ...

Here's the website for this unique weekend (August 25-27) in a beautiful little town, North Hero on the Lake Champlain Islands: http://www.pipersgathering.org Among the instruments makers who will be attending and selling their work is Jon Swayne. The entry on the website only mentions his bagpipes,...

Hmm, strange. I was going to write, one more reason not to play those piercing little buggers! But I just dug out a Generation high G and F and I can't hear a difference. Are you blessed (or perhaps cursed) with superhuman auditory faculties?

Transitions between the octaves are difficult at first. I often tell beginners that the only fingerings that require any practice at all (a slight exaggeration) are the transitions between the octaves. I suggest that they repeat B-Cnat-D-Cnat-B and B-C#-D-C#-D ad nauseam until they can get these pas...

Unless there's a time limit on your associate's offer (your imminent birthday?), I'd suggest waiting until you have had a chance to try some of these expensive whistles. Visit a well-stocked store, or go to festivals where you'll find makers and players. Choosing an instrument you haven't tried base...

Hey thanks for the link Mark! I've been enjoying listening for the past hour as I work. The past 30 minutes there's been a replay of a Ciaran MacMathuna program from the 1960s with the Chieftains live in the studio. The young Paddy Moloney sounds almost shy and self-effacing!

Scott by "off the top of my head" I didn't mean to imply that I just wrote out the music like that, without playing it on the whistle as I did so. (I know some people who can do that.) I meant that I wrote it from memory, without referring to any recordings. There was a time about 15 years...