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Loren, I don't know about the session scene or flute instructors there, but I have two suggestions for people you might contact. Chris Abell (Abell Flute Company) is based there, 828-254-1004 ... you probably knew that. Just outside Asheville is Warren Wilson College, site of the Swannanoa Gathering...

On 2002-09-06 11:52, SylvainM wrote: Another question is *how* (what fingerings) he does that. ... My guess is that C sharps in the B part are played the standard way, with every hole uncovered. In the A part, he might be using oxo ooo, or oxx ooo, or both... I've been thinking about this too. Perh...

Interestingly, I found that if you look up Scotch Mary in JC's abc tune finder, you'll find a couple of transcriptions in A mixolydian (rather than A dorian) -- meaning that in those versions *all* the C's, including those in the A part, are sharped. I guess this is one of those tunes that "goe...

On 2002-09-05 17:03, colomon wrote: Wow, agree on 10 & 14 but totally disagree on 12 & 16 Colomon, I just took a couple more passes through the mp3. To my ear, what I wrote holds true for the first time through the tune. The second time through, on the repeat of the B part, he plays a Cnat ...

Thank you, Peter. Your recordings and transcriptions are a great gift to players. For those who rely on the dots, may I suggest one change? In the B part, all of the C's in measures 10, 12, 14, and 16 come through on the recording as clearly sharped. At least to my ear, this is not an instance where...

mike.r, I don't think labeling whistles as such would add anything. Indeed, I think it would only confuse people. I think you may be under a misimpression regarding melodeons. A D/G melodeon is, by definition, a two-row box, with separate rows in the keys of D and G. Now, if you were to devise a two...

When people talk about Susatos here, they're almost always referring to the older, standard soprano ("S series") models, which are notoriously loud. Susato recently came out with a new series, called variously "sopranino," "very small bore, "VSB," or "V series...

I attended Celtic Week at the Swannanoa Gathering last year ... not sure yet about this year, due to various other impending time commitments I took Kieran O'Hare's beginning whistle class and had a great time. He's an excellent teacher, and he's *very* funny. Get him to tell you about some of his &...

I'm happy with OXX OXX for the first C on my Sweetone D, and OXX XXO for the high C.

I might be more inclined to get a D/G, since most jigs/reels/etc you'll find are in those keys. It's counterintuitive, but C/G is the preferred tuning among players of traditional Irish music. But note that the C/G instruments favored for Irish music have 30 or more buttons, vs. only 20 on inexpens...

From JC's abc tune finder (http://trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/FindTune.html) you can get printable, graphic images in either GIF format (will open in your browser) or in PDF format (will open in the free Adobe Acrobat reader). When searching, use the "Find (wide)" button for the cleares...

On 2002-05-10 17:58, ChrisA wrote: I have been told that this fundamental pitch is the D above middle C, but I've not taken apart a piano to measure the string at middle C ... [...] Some confusion comes from the fact that we essentially treat whistles as one-octave transposing instruments, that is,...

On 2002-05-10 15:13, Bloomfield wrote: I believe the D on a high-D whistle is an octave above the D above Middle C on a piano. Low D whistle and D flute have the same bell note (which makes sense because they're about the same size). Allow me to suggest two experiments, if you have a piano handy: (...

On 2002-05-09 15:25, ChrisA wrote: Anyway, I think the most important thing about whistle is that it -is- an octave higher than flute... It seems to me that concertina is an octave above button accordian, but it also seems to me that both are below whistle and matched with flute, so maybe they just...