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How can you make an earworm go away? Think of something else of actually listening to the song in question are thought to help, but there is presently no research evidence showing what works best. …..” I suspect there's been some research done in the field of neural network processing systems. The ...

Thank you, oh great chiffboard, for the early diagnosis of WHoa! My children will get Christmas after all!

btw - does anyone know which Lon Dubh is the louder - Blackwood or Delirin?

Talking of blues whistle and movies - who remembers harpo marx playing the whistle in "Day at the Races" (who dat man/all god's chillum)?

Heh - this whole blues thing on a whistle-board is sooo cool.

I mean, i'm neither Irish nor African, but there's something in all that music that lifts me up and makes me want to play it.

What was that movie where the Irish guy was saying - "the oirish are the blacks of europe"?

I'm kinda with Bobz on this one; When I was a kid (i can only just remember that) I would jam with some friends who owned guitars - I had only my trusty recorder in C so we jammed A minor. The recorder sounded awful. It sounded totally awful if some of the notes got played. I decided to find out why...

Here's Daniel Bingamon's C&F whistle board profile, including email and website. Huge thanks! btw here's a clip of one of the tunes we're learning: http://www.slaughterhouse.com.au/clips/esmerim.mp3 The clip also has a key change that forces half-holing b3 (with a C whistle). strangely, this so...

Hi Jerry, This seems like exactly what I am looking for. What it sounds like is a whistle with a barel holed to produce a harmonic minor scale - this is like a phrygian mode with a sharpenned 3rd. in a practical sense it's like what you'd get if your t2 was sharp (half-holed) (if starting and ending...

The rules: Only one guess per person. One, that's it. All entries should consist of answers to these questions: Approximate retail price? Material the whistle is made of? Hi Wanderer, It sounds aluminium to me. It's not top end - I'll go for an Alba - with the curvey ramp (if their website would re...