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OK David, I can move the session at the bear House to Saturday.
The room is large and we could get a lot of people in.

John

That’s good news David I'll organise a session at the Bear house for Friday
and a Sunday lunch time at the Ducie so people can make a weekend of it.

John S

The reason it's around 10Hz (up to 12Hz in some people) as this is the fastest speed you can perform a repeated physical action; the motor systems smallest resolution. All continuous movement are actualy lots of 1/10 second movements joined together.

John S

You can use Onion skin instead of rice paper, it's pealed of the inside of a fresh onion "leaf" stretched over the hole wet and left to dry.

John S

Diaphragm vibrato is a lot slower at say about 5Hz whilst finger vibrato is usually around 10Hz.

John S

The secret with any fast ornamentation or tune is to play it slow a lot of times and when I say a lot I mean as long as it takes. I play GHB's and when I got my Deger E-Chanter for some reason it could not "see" my Birl (a double tap on the bottom hole with the right little finger) which I...

Thanks for the link Myrddin, very useful.

John S

Hi Mike, as pointed out above the Bb Whistle Plays a Bb major and an Eb major scale starting on XXXOOO with the cross-fingered Ab OXXXOX (that's the fingering I use but other fingerings work too). These two major scales have "relative minors" which use the same notes but start two notes be...

The above link is very useful but I use a slightly different technique. Sufficient wall thickness is very important and in my experience only the first few sections of cane from the root end work well so don't waste time making narrower reeds from the upper sections of thick reeds as the sides colla...

Hi, I know I'm always banging on about Phragmites reeds but making Drone reeds is quit easy and with plenty of free material to use you will quickly learn a lot about how to make and adjust them. From your website I assume your somewhere near Brick NJ and there seems to be plenty of wetland and Salt...

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John S

The Landlord has just informed me that he has got 3 rockbands playing upstairs on friday so I'm afraid the session is off.

Sorry about the short notice but needs must when the devil vomits in your kettle.

I'll try again in the New year,

John S