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Hoy folks! Hope you're all fine. I just had a long discussion with the accordion player of my group about chromatic versus diatonic scales and instruments. It was one of these endless discussions were you can't seem to get anywere because both sides stands firmly on their arguments and are absolutel...

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Hi there! I wrote a topic some months ago about my off-tune Chieftain low-D. And got a lot of answers (thanks everyone). Some of you said that Chieftain whistles are crapp and I should have bought a Howard or Overton in stead. Someone even refered to them as overprized Clarkes. Someone however sugge...

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Okay! Thanks. I'll check it out.

Okay. Thanks. I think I'll get myself one of them metronomes. It could prove handy.

:-? Umh! :-? Just a question. More about language than musical knowledge really. You see, I know what a tuner is. It's one of 'em gadgets that check the tuning of an instrument, right. Not that complicated. But a metronome! What do they do?? Maby I'll know what it is once someone care to tell me. Se...

I do have a lot of tunable whistles of various makers, but it wasn't till lately I started playing the low's. The Chieftain was my first real low whistle. On 2003-02-28 18:06, msheldon wrote: I will add one more thing. If you are serious enough to be recording with a band, you really should have a t...

Well, mine isn't that bad. Ok, it's a bit squeaky, but I don't find it worse on that than say, the Oak. I like it a lot better than the Generation D, at least.

During my last visit to Ireland last summer i discovered a nice little whistle called the Doolin whistle. I bought it in a giftshop near the cliffs of Moher for about 6-euros. It's a brass 2-part D whistle with green mouth piece. Looks quite simular to the Clare 2-part. But I've never got to try out...

Thanks for the information. I was going to buy a keyless flute anyway. You really helped out...

I bet there are many like me. Tin Whistle players who would like to try out the flute. One thing concerns me however. I play the whistles with my right hand closest to the fipple. Haven't seen many others who do that. If I started playing the flute, I would have the flute pointed to my left while pl...

Just ordered Chieftains Water from the Well DVD. Havent recieved it yet but can't wait. Does anyone know if it's any good??

Hi there! My story: I have a good friend whom I got to know when I started dancing (finnish traditional dance). He's a very skilled accordion player. And once I started to hang out with him I too got very interested in all traditional music, and he suggested that I started playing some instrument (s...

Hello dear soul-mates. Last summer I bought a wonderful Chiftain low D in Killarney (County Kerry, Ireland). The sound and playability of this whistle is great in my oppinion. But there is one problem however. It's badly off-tune, accually the tuning is closer to low E-flat than to low-D. This makes...