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arnie wrote:I've seen Colin Goldie doing this on my Overton low D. It's amazing!

On a low D?! I built my own and as far as I can tell it has no discernable back pressure. How does Colin do it?

Until a few minutes ago I would have said it is impossible to to circular breathing on the tin whistle but then I discovered hatao

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWpv7w5kNk4

Another free program (somewhat pesterware) is Finale Notepad.

So far I think "It's Irish because it sounds Irish" works the best for me. I know it is not much of a definition but I have found this question to be quite hard to pin down in a definite way. I was thinking about the person who mentioned traditional rhythms like jig, hornpipe etc. but this...

I worry about people who think it is ok to pick on pigs. I mean, think of Wilbur, or Babe or even Robert Muench's book about pigs. Most of the pigs I have met were more decent than some of the people I have encountered. But more seriously, I looked at the website and while I don't like the tone, the...

Did the Planxty one sound something like this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yzf6ILjdyPA

Just about a year ago I started learning tin whistle. A friend of mine introduced me to the music of Liam O'Flynn and I thought he was a pretty good piper. Then I started listening to the Chieftains, Bothy Band and sort of forgot about Liam After about a year I have improved somewhat on my whistle, ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WX1oLXROegQ

It is in Dutch but there are plenty of sound bites so you can hear the instruments.

"On the prairie and plain sure the wheat waves all golden The maple gives sugar to sweeten your tay. You won't want for corn cob way out in Saskatchewan When you're in the green fields of Americay." Its all propaganda! ;-) Sugar maples don't grow in Saskatchewan, and as for corn I have a ...

flutey1:

Nice to hear from you again! Last local session one of the flute players was trying to persuade me to cross over to the flute from my low whistle. But I suspect the flute will take me even longer to learn how to play well.

Right now the fields around my place are yellow (Canola). Maybe we need a new song

This tip is probably only for the truly fanatical but I trust I am in good company. I drive a '95 Geo Metro, and if I leave the keys in the ignition and open the door the car beeps rhythmically. The other day I realized if I play a C whistle the beep is just about the right tempo and pitch for a jig...

I found out what the reel is. It is called "Music for a Found Harmonium". Yargh. A work of pure evil and wickedness if ever there were one. :wink: Indeed, I think I'd have guessed it instantly if he'd described it as "A work of pure evil and wickedness that sounds vaguely classical a...

Tune 2: This is a reel. I have no idea what the name it but to describe it I would say if Bach wrote reels it would be like this one. It started with a theme. Began to introduce minor variations. Then it started modulating into other keys Based on that description my guess would be "Pinch of S...