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Steve Bliven wrote:I'm struck by how many of the whistle wizards play with the right hand on top. Don't hardly see that hereabouts.

Both hands are on the top in every photo. I have never known anyone to play the whistle with the tone holes turned down to face the ground.

Yes, Mr Gumby, beautiful portraits! (just for fun) Going on the pictures alone, if they were all conducting whistle workshops at a music festival, I'd book in first choice with Cathal OConnell or Mary Bergin. Just a face thing. I get the sense with Cathal that he is so absorbed with the music that h...

Anyanka wrote:....I may have got the dates slightly wrong. Therefore I'd like my present NOW. .......

The present (yours, mine and everyone else's)
has always been and always will be now .....

Couldn't find a wiki article on this but here is an example of it in usage
http://www.cranfordpub.com/langan/airs.htm

Right now it seems like this is more of a question of origin rather than belonging. For tunes does it depend on a jus soli or a Jus sanguinis idea of nationality? To me it's like pizza, Naples might have invented it, but we co-opted it. I've never been to the States. What's pizza like there? Is it ...

however a stick originates and whatever its goal,
ultimately, it will come to a sticky end

...... I think I get what you're saying, but if I might expand a little more: ........ Thanks for TRYING and thanks for the nice info in your posts. However I don't think you actually understood what I said. Saying that urlar may be informed by slow air or expressions analogous to slow airs (which ...

here is a very well written article on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pibroch I found the usage of "slow movement" in relation to urlar interesting and feel it is analagous to the idea of slow air. Of course things of a similar ilk can take different forms in different traditions and in diff...

they are brutally honest
they don't hide their excreta

Far out! ID10-t is going to write 10.000 words about a chinrest?

......... Coming from a background as a trad fiddler from when I was a wee pup, I find this insistence on the term "Irish flute" odd. How come nobody calls what I play an "Irish fiddle" (despite the fact that it was made in Ireland ... by an Irishman ... in an Irish stylee)? And...

I have noticed that both Nico Moreno and Big Davy have spoken on their subject matter and have used the word "tune" correctly in their posts without meaning "dance tune" per se .....

But which drawer for my spare keys dear Liza dear Liza which drawer, dear Liza, for my spare keys ? Actually, this mini episode reminds me of a bloke I supervised once who kept losing certain files and I asked him to keep a log book of their whereabouts and one day he appeared more than usually daze...

what? I gave a dog three almonds and it thinks I have bought the privilege to belong to him?
I cannot believe that dogs could be as intelligent as humans but your explanation would demonstrate that they are just like us.

yes, given that a Ceòl Mór performance can be informed by a slow air, wouldn't it be reasonable to presume that all urlars may be informed by slow airs or expressions analagous to slow airs? And, in as much as the oldest traditions of Gaelic Scotland are sourced in the migration of the Gaels from Ir...