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What a coincidence -- I was just listening to Magical Mystery Tour last night and noticed the recorder for the first time. It's actually on several cuts. Sounds like a soprano to me in Fool on the hill and on another cut, (maybe Your mother should know?). There's an alto or tenor at the end of Straw...

How about O'Carolan's Farewell to Music? A wonderful dark melody, plus the lore that he supposedly wrote it and then went to his deathbed make it quite appropriate.

Charlie

I was always EXTREMELY nervous about performing (giving talks, presentations, etc.), but I've never screwed up too badly, so it's abated in the last ten years or so (I haven't performed music in over 15, but giving talks at conferences is, in all honesty, a somewhat higher stakes game for me). The m...

I was going to ask whether he ever answers questions, or I just had bad luck. The first time I ordered a Burke, I also tried to get in touch with him a few times about delivery time and whether he would sell two barrels with one head. I never heard back from him. I did get the whistle (low-D Aluminu...

thin bore: a smaller diameter of the whistle barrel. Most whistle makers use a larger diameter (bore) for lower whistles. However, some, expecially higher-end makers (Michael Burke comes to mind) offer narrow-bore and wide-bore whistles in the same key. The narrower bore is quieter, and most beginne...

Our cats seem to like the high whistles, and take no notice of the lows. When I play the sopranos, they occasionally will hop up into my lap and begin chin-marking the whistle while I'm playing!

Charlie

Our cats seem to like the high whistles, and take no notice of the lows. When I play the sopranos, they occasionally will hop up into my lap and begin chin-marking the whistle while I'm playing!

Charlie

I also have a Generation Bb and am really impressed with it. I only own three Generations, the other two being the high F and G, that I've only seen by Generation. A question about Shaw whistles: I have played a low-D, and the sound is remarkable -- that breathy, far-away sound that's perfect in a l...

I have a Weltmeister, which I've had for a month or so, and I agree that I think they're the same whistle (I know the Welt. is available in that hot pink; mine is green). I believe mins is pear wood. I pretty much agree with the previous review, but I'll outline my experience. First, the negatives: ...

I love the Uillean pipes, and heard that one must be accomplished on the whistle before taking up the pipes. (I played mostly lap dulcimer, a little harp, and had been pretty fluent on the clarinet in my youth.) I had the good fortune to live about 6 miles from the House of Musical Traditions, so wa...