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Like Bryce, I've just made a Low D. Two, in fact. The first one I made was offset, and had a wide windway. The second one was inline and had a narrower windway. I thought the offset would be easier, but t'ain't so, sadly. It all amounts to how easily you can find the holes blind. When you get a bit ...

I make my own, so it's definitely new. One of these days I'll get it right... So those who use "pre-loved" whistles, do you scruple to clean them in any way before use, or do you just trust to luck? How do you clean them? Washing-up liquid? Ether? Vodka? (Heard that one recently for head-l...

Thanks, Walden!

(I'm an Irish ex-pat, and I know it's easier to be a strict traditionalist if you only need to be so at week-ends!)

(This is going to be good...) I was recently at a Powwow in Somerset, UK. I was dragged there by a couple of friends who are into Native American stuff and, slightly to my surprise, I had a really good time. There were Native Americans there from America and Canada. I had a pleasant chat with a Lady...

Hi there, Jsluder! Frig is a perfectly acceptable polite word. If you don't have time to make a proper repair, but you need to make something serviceable in an emergency, you might frig it. For instance, the apocryphal story of tights being used to replace a broken fan-belt describes a frig perfectl...

Don't know of any Slow Air pages - ABC used not to handle slow airs very well. I have three airs on ABC, two taken from Francis McPeake's book on the Penny Whistle, and one taken from here, I think. They are: The Dear Irish Boy, The little Red Lark, and Eire. If you want them, email me. Or I could p...

I'd like to see this done on a low D.
In fact, I'd like to see this done on a high G whistle.

Sounds like a party trick to me.

Yup, it's a nice tuning. To be honest, though, unless you're picking out a tune, there's no great advantage. It sounds different, and somebody told be that Joni Mitchell tended to tune her guitar DADGAD, but strumming comes out as strumming no matter how the axe is tuned. But having said that: try p...

Then there's Drokk! and Grud! and Grud on a Greenie! for the 200AD fans. (It's a Comic, if you really didn't know.)
But a colleague of mine used to make people blink when he said, from time to time
"Blinking Flip!"