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My BO Overton low F has holes that are neither scratchy nor uncomfortable. I think it was made quite recently though.

[quote] On 2002-09-26 04:26, nickt wrote: However, the only other low F I've played is a Grinter (take note Wombat, me old Aussie matey) and it was magnificent. Only a brief tweak, but I did make a mental note that it took the BO on and won (though the beak could've been narrower). I'm all ears cobb...

[quote] On 2002-09-26 03:18, Peter Laban wrote: Will we go on topic and have a positive discussion about the music of Johnny and Felix Doran, The Dohertys and Paddy Keenan etc. What's your hurry? But let's edge in that direction. I was surprised to read that there is an identifiable traveller group ...

Hi there 'enders. Thanks for responding. You actually came very close to getting the real point of my posting which was deliberately cryptic. (I wasn't mocking you or the point you were making, which seemed pretty good to me, but rather the whole project of trying to nail down tradition in a definit...

I agree with almost all of the nice things said about Overtons, but I would, wouldn't I—I own nine including a low F. I also play only Bernard-made Overtons (so far) so I have no direct experience of the more commonly available Colin-made products. I do recognise my whistles in the positive (and som...

Your argument would mean a melody player who doesnt sing or know the words to a song is also faking it when accompanying a singer. :smile: Mike [/quote] 'Faking' is surely putting it too strongly. But a melody player accompanying a singer who is responsive to melodic, textural and thematic nuances i...

On 2002-09-25 11:19, LeeMarsh wrote: the more one identifies with a culture, the more one absorbs it. Often, without consciously realizing how much has been absorbed. For most folks I think its about exposure: recorded, in-person, or through relationships. Exposure is the key, weather the exposure ...

On 2002-09-25 10:57, Azalin wrote: I know an english guitar player who speaks somewhat good french, but didnt want to teach his son french because he said his son was going to have some bad habits that would be very hard to get rid of, he preferred to have his son learn french from a native french ...

Lizzie, In most styles of music, originality very often comes of making a virtue out of a failed attempt to copy something one admires greatly but can't quite copy. At some point you notice how your playing differs from what you were trying to do, realise that it doesn't sound so bad, and then work ...

Weekenders: .... true IRTRAD is unharmonized. Leaving aside the question of whether a melody against a drone constitutes a harmony (why not?) this account is really interesting. Apparently a solo uilleann piper can be playing IRTRAD for most of the set but stops playing IRTRAD every time he or she p...

Great work folks. This is precisely the kind of dust I was hoping to stir up. (I take it that was pdunn's original idea too.) Keep the info coming in please. Kwela is sublimely beautiful music that should be well-represented in every whistle lover's collection—if only we could get our hands on the r...

This is my first post. Excuse me if I get the mechanics wrong. Unless there is a revival I don't know about, Kwela is a musical form that was very popular in Sth. Africa in the 1950's but which got replaced by other forms of township jive in the early 60's. The one post here with significant informa...