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My cats seem impervious to the music, but the birds are another story. The macaw is fine until the high registers and then he starts vocalizing unhappily, the caique twitters non-stop, the parrotlet (much like the lovebird from the earlier post) chirps. But during the summer I spare them and my husb...

<heavy sigh> I've sworn off the recorder until I've gotten the whistle well figured out. As much as I regret it sometimes (I'm playing about half the tunes I used to in session because I am constantly screwing up on notes between B and D), I've improved in whistle playing by beaps and lounds since l...

and another tuppence. . . I learned to read music, and took up a wide variety of instruments, with varying levels of success. It is virtually impossible to learn a tune on the hammered dulcimer by reading music, because you may be able to find the notes that are on the page, but your hammer patterns...

Hi, Nickster! I'm in central CT and looking for the same. Locally there is a nice session in Hartford at City Steam on Wednesday nights, and people there are very supportive. Usually there are two to four people playing whistle/flute/uillean pipes. Fellow by the name of Will (who plays all the above...

On 2001-08-01 12:47, TonyHiggins wrote: Statistically, how many people have died in auto accidents by having a whistle impaled in their throat. . . Ah, the misuses of statistics. Tony, a better question is "What percentage of the people who play whistles while at the wheel of the car have been ...

I've 'studied' a few instruments (piano as a child, hammered dulcimer as an adult) and my best teachers gave the same advice as what is being discussed here. Some other things I've been taught: When you're just starting out with an instrument, you try to learn too much too fast. Try every week to pl...