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Just adding my own 2 cents- I teach beg/intermediate whistle at one of the local camps, after having gone to Augusta's Irish week for many years as a student. I had the same frustrating experience with many of the "star"players -they can really play but most do not have a good idea as to h...

Hey Larry-sounds like the next tune you should learn is The Gold Ring(ha ha)........ I want to know if that line works on your wife(to get the new set), as I gotta find a way to convince hubby that I NEED(really NEED) a new set to replace my bastardized combination of pipes(Daye chanter, Rowsome dro...

Hey Coloman- Glad to hear the CD got done(the extenuating circumstance was the flood in Loretto and Brian's basement....where the CD usually gets recorded). Would you mind e-mailing me the list of tunes on said CD-we moved out of TO 2 months ago, and I like to be able to teach/have extra copies of t...

One word-Ouch.

And saxophone is way more annoying than pipes.........

I don't know if it's trigger finger, or the same thing you are talking about, Larry, but all of the fingers on both of my hands tighten up(i've been told it's tendonitis) and must uncurl and stretch my fingers in between playing and the morning after a session. Any recommendations, y'all(besides war...

Yeah, I'm here in Southern Ontario(where we went straight from winter to summer)and it was 100 with a humidex of 105..........

I hate to disappoint you Coloman, but when I left TO at the end of May, the Goderich CD had't been made yet, due to extenuating circumstances. But e-mail Warren to find out for sure.

Hey Steve-
the camp is Boxwood/festival workshop in Lunenburg,N.S.,not Baltimore(sorry).
Info can be found on his website-www.chrisnorman.com.

Check your mailbox for a private message.

Hey-is anybody out there going to Chris Norman's music week in Baltimore this year? I'm thinking of going next year, so would like an opinion.

Also-any other summer music weeks that have been memorable and that y'all can recommend(besides Willy week, I can't afford it)?

What a sad commentary. Gary Crosby is right-the budget cutbacks in Canada have resulted in music specialists being cut from the public schools, and often replaced with classroom teachers with little or no background in how to teach music(let alone a musical instrument). That loathsome Thatcher ideol...

I've had one of Dave's penny chanters for 5 years now(as a matter of fact I was his first customer). We both used to go to Irish week every year at Augusta-and struggle, complain, moan, about chanters and reeds, etc. What he has done with the pipes is wonderful-make a standard pipe for cheap that is...

Nothing better than practicing whistle outside in the hammock. I've been practicing upipes on the deck for the past 2 weeks-perfect pipe weather and the cows don't seem to mind!!!!!! We have to work out a practice schedule when I play pipes though-hubby is a serious jazz trombonist(nothing like upip...

An amazing Sligo whistle/flute player who has lived in Toronto since 87. She and her hubby(the equally amazing Brian Taheny)have 3CD's out and,for my money, she is the finest whistle player on the planet. But not well known outside of Canada, unfortunately. I highly recommend her to all of you whist...

Dave gave me a prototype penny chanter 5 years ago and it CHANGED my life!!I had been playing a Tim Britton chanter that was VERY frustrating to play-the penny chanter is heaven to play in comparison. And it can be reeded by anyone who knows what they are doing. I got a new chanter from Dave last ye...