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Just twist the knobs a little. It doesn't take much. I play old-time music and regularly tune it up to AEAE or down to GDGD so it's really no big deal. Use a clip-on tuner and it'll be much easier.

I bought (or rather traded for) a mandolin once and it arrived in a box inside its gig bag completely assembled and ready to play. I've had the same experience with several dulcimers and a ukulele as well.

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I used to have a mopane folk flute. The thing I remember most is that it smelled really nice and the wood was really pretty. I have a boxwood flute now and every time I play it people remark how pretty it sounds. I'm not even a very good flute player.

Since I normally play the mandolin in my old-time jam and have learned all the tunes by ear through the mandolin at the jam (not on my own time, only by playing at the jam), I have found that if I bring a flute or whistle that I actually know fewer of the notes than I thought I did. I play melody, n...

I play in an old-time (not bluegrass) group in California. Our music tends to have a strong mid-western tendency with a lot of music from Illinois and Missouri. When I first joined the group the leader said only stringed instruments were allowed. Once in a while someone with a whistle shows up and t...

If your first whistle was too sharp it may be possible to lengthen the whistle and bring it down a little. Either by pulling the plastic fipple out a little or by rubber-banding a small piece of paper that wraps around the end or even a little of both. If the fipple doesn't pull out you may be able ...

There seems to be no interest. I retract my offer at this time. Please move to the sold or old forum. Thank you.

Yeah, what Simon said. And if you're still conflicted, buy one of the $10-$40 ones. Really, it's only a few dollars. I remember when I first got started I ordered an Irish flute and while I was waiting for it, I happened to see $10 pennywhistles by the cash register at the music shop and bought one ...

I have too many flutes that I never play. I am happy to trade one or more of these for something. It does not have to be a wind instrument because as you can see, I have just too many flutes. http://i.imgur.com/opWeWCwl.jpg Bottom to top: 1. Casey Burns small-handed folk flute, mopani. Has a big cra...

I bought a new Tipple just last week and played it at the session for the first time on Sunday. Doug makes a good flute. I was able to play in tune so well I couldn't even hear myself. You might want to get a conical wooden flute someday anyway. They are so beautiful to look at, to touch, to play. S...

You can call it "chops" and you can call that thing you're holding a "horn" if you want.

Maybe then when Doug used to offer the wedge as an option he used different hole spacings on the body.

Most Irish tunes are going to be in a key that you can play on a D whistle so that is why that is the best one to start with. A D whistle will play key of D naturally, key of G with a special fingering for the C natural, key of A with a half-hole for the G# (but a lot of A tunes use a G natural or d...

I think if I could add just 1 key it would either be the F or the G#. I can manage a G# on a good day but I'm just too much of a klutz to manage an F.