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Two questions:
1) Is there a possible way to get a third octave out of the thing? Being able to keep up with fiddlers' G string would be a great trick.

2) Is there a reasonable way to play chromatically?

Re "Pull Out the Knife and Stick It Again", sort of explanation here: https://thesession.org/tunes/398#comment150835 I remember hearing a version of the story with the witch saying the title phrase in a croaky/shrieky witch voice, but I have no idea whatsoever where I heard that. It just s...

Vincent Broderick's jig "Haunted House": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ca_xcZg3lsg

pancelticpiper wrote:

colomon wrote: the F-natural roll

Nevertheless it's easy to do a roll-like thing on F: play a pair of cuts rather than a cut and a pat. It's the same sort of thing you'll hear many players doing on D.

F-natural "cran", that's easy enough all right! Nice.

In the second bar, once you have established your F-natural on the long first note by half holing, thus (v indicating the half-covered hole): [| xxx xvo] then leave the first and second fingers of your bottom hand where they are while you play the remainder of the bar. This gets rid of the difficul...

You're 100% right about lower whistles being better for hitting the low notes of a song. Probably few if any hymns go above the range of an (mezzo) A whistle, but loads of them will go below a bottom-of-the-staff D. So an A whistle is my default choice for songs in the key of D or A. Also, while I'm...

So it's in the same family with The Kesh, and it's not clear whose the eldest? What catches my attention about "The Spring Well" and "The Mountaineer's March" is how they seem to have complementary bits of "The Kesh" in them. But I don't see any obvious way of knowing ...

Here's the version in my copy of the digital O'Neill's -- notably minus the (to my eyes kind of weird) Krassen changes. http://www.harmonyware.com/tunes/spring_well.png My instinct is that the AGG G2 pattern at the end of the parts is a sign that a tune is more old fashioned. HOWEVER, I thought to p...

Have people heard Millish's version of Stairway to Heaven? (Link probably won't work outside the US, sorry!) Lots of (very non-trad!) nice low whistle and pipes.

I ordered mine from Gerry last week, hope I get it soon! But for other out-of-Ireland people, Gerry is planning on getting the album up on Bandcamp later this month -- that might be the easiest / quickest way to get it.

Here's a link to some pro grade bassoons: https://www.charlesmusic.com/cgi-bin/theo?action=category&main_category=Instruments,%20Bocals&sub_category=Used%20Bassoons Now these are used, but certainly nothing to make a working musician blush. Man, you just made me spend fifteen minutes ogling...

I've been preaching the low E for a long time too. I mean, low F is a nice whistle key, but in my experience almost the only time I ever need to play it is when trying to play along with recordings where they used a low F! IME in sessions, low E is vastly more useful. And they're quite fun to play, ...

kkrell wrote:Leon's Waltz (Loretto Reid)
https://thesession.org/tunes/2092

How is it that I've never gotten around to learning Leon's?! A serious oversight from past Sol.

Waltz in the House (Emile Benoit)
https://thesession.org/tunes/11705#setting20806

Over my 40 years of acquiring Irish traditional instruments I've found that the normal gestation period for them is about the same as it is for humans. At best. If you venture into uilleann piping you'll find that waits of several years are common. Yes, but I think you'll find there's a bit of diff...

Once you get past, say, three weeks it might be worth a gentle check-in with him... after all, things do get lost in the mail occasionally.