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Sorry 'bout this it should have been on the whistle forum, I'm getting on a bit you know.

are you talking about your post on the flute forum?

Well spotted geezer, feel like a bit of an eejit now. Spose I'll have to go over there and apologise to them now.

Hi, just posted a link (not a url) to a video file on Phil Hardy's site, did you delete it? Was that considered a commercial posting. Is there an acceptable way round this so that people can hear this music?

Don't know if this has been posted before, video on the Kerry whistle site in the movies section, file name At First Light_Camden_02_1.wmv. Love this music. Anyone know the tune?

Hi TJ, try this http://www.thesession.org/discussions/display/2046
Quite a few of the people there know the tunes. Do some searches on the site and you'll find the sheet music as well. hope this helps

Hi Jason, start a tune with the play button then if you press the button called "patch" you get a drop down box with a list of instruments from which to choose. Hope this helps

I think most of my spelling practice has been through reading,
because it has definately improved over the years.

brilliant

Hi Paul, you're asking some big questions here. You mentioned the word transcribe. IMHO transcription is probably the most useful skill any musician can have. Technically It's the ability to write down in notation the musical phrase you've just heard (or imagined). More usefully it's the ability to ...

I've just been listening to these tunes. The Alan Stivell version seems to be two tunes, the first being the same as Dearg Doom on the album The Tain by Horslips. Does anyone know what this one is?

Fantastic response as usual, thank you.

Hey Dow, how do you do that?

Hi all, has anyone played one of Fred's flutes? They seem very cheap.

I've had this tune in my head for a long time. There are two versions, one by Horslips I heard in the late 70's called Dearg Doom and the other by Alan Stivell called King of the Faeries. I searched for this with J.C's tunefinder thingy but the dots I found don't match up. Is this a traditional song...

Hi Annie, the page is still there. Try this http://www.clarefm.ie/ and go to trad archive.
Steve

BTW, Mitch, I LOVE the Stick entry!

I'll second that, made me larf.