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fiddlerwill wrote:Eb is not a flat key is it?

What do you mean? With your own definition, Eb can be a flat key as much as any other key. What octave are we talking about? Ever heard of a Eb low whistle? I heard these things are huge beasts

Well, you'd say a 'flat' session as far as I know. You'll often hear of a "flat session in C" happening somewhere, same with Bb and Eb. But it all involves re-tuning your instrument. If you simply play a tune in C instead of D, you definitely won't say "hey, want to play this tune in ...

Do many folk here pay in flat keys? such as C instead [as well] as D F instead of G G instead of A etc Obviously pipers with flat sets do! but are many folk interested in joining them on fiddle, banjo whistle etc? just curious. A few years ago I got into playing a tone down so as to play with an ol...

By idiomatic, I mean that there are certain patterns and techniques that make the music ITM... swing, ornamentation, breathing, bowing, etc. These are the technical performance bits that are layered on top of the raw notes to make the music uniquely ITM. They are often different than classical musi...

Please stop it with your waflle and beer postings, I just started a diet on a quest to lose ~12 pounds in 12 weeks and I don't have an unlimited amount of willpower! Alcool will the the tough part, I can feel my body shaking already.

In fact, a similar set of rules is a necessary ingredient for any musical genre which has a strong element of improvisation. They're what make it possible. Would you say that jazz is simple music because a well trained jazz musician doesn't have to know a tune to play it? Are you saying that ITM is...

I'll also be so bold as to say that in my experience, those who usually over analyze this music are usually very bad ITM players, for some reason. There are exceptions of course. These discussions about 'how complex' ITM can be makes me roll my eyes sometimes. I'm sure it can be, but c'mon, when Vin...

Let's also be honnest here, irish music *is* simple compared to other genres, but as others pointed, to play it simply but still making it interesting to listen to is a challenge by itself, and when I listen to stuff that is becoming too complicated, I lose interest... so I must be a simple person

Brother Steve, where are thou?? We need you in this type of discussion! :-) Once upon a time I tried to decipher some tunes from sheet music, but I always ended up playing the wrong sharps and flats, because many will translate a tune in major or minor, when in fact, it's not! To complicate things, ...

The Eavesdropper. Pet of the Pipers. Have a Drink With Me. Gillan's Apples. And...The Kesh. :D Gillan's Apples is in D major by the way, although it starts with G... The big hint is the C# :-) Here Az, read this: http://forums.chiffandfipple.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=72886&hilit=gillian's+app...

If you have to ask, then you won't agree with the answer anyway ;-) True, true. Brian is well aware that some people don't like his tunes. And he doesn't mind at all. :-) One thing ... Because he composes on whistle or flute, Brian's tunes often sit very nicely under the fingers, and are a real tac...

SteveShaw wrote:The Eavesdropper. Pet of the Pipers. Have a Drink With Me. Gillan's Apples.


And...The Kesh.

Gillan's Apples is in D major by the way, although it starts with G... The big hint is the C#

MTGuru wrote:

Cash the Piper wrote:There's probably a reason for that

And what reason would that be?

If you have to ask, then you won't agree with the answer anyway

Full screen video would be nice. I bet if you were to make an annual contribution of a few hundred Euro to cover the costs of the additional bandwidth, they'd be happy to offer that option. :wink: But most people these days don't bother with bandwidth, you can simply post on Youtube in HD quality i...

A few accidentals can be cross fingered, but really good whistle players will half hole all the notes... For example, Mary Bergin will half hole the B finger to get a C natural, instead of your more typical OXXOOO fingering. She can do this at full speed and play F naturals, G#, Eb... anything. But ...