Its nice to have another instrument to go to when you feel like something different. I play drums, guitar, Highland bagpipes, whistle, Native American flute, transverse flute, and fiddle. I also mess around with banjo, mandolin, and keyboards too. I'm taking up the Uilleann pipes, just as soon as they arrive. I am never board, musically! So, jump in and have fun! We're all rootin for ya!
Wow, that'd be so cool! I'd love to go!avanutria wrote:Hiya Hannah, welcome! Martin and I will be going to the Oxford Folk Festival in April, that might be an event that would interest you. http://www.oxfordfolkfestival.com/ ..I'm hoping there might be a concertina workshop this year, as that's my primary instrument, but concertina events are fairly thin on the ground around here.
I'm glad you like them! Did you listen to Sunset at Flamingo Park and Reel Express? They're gorgeousCynth wrote:Hi hannah! I had never heard of James Last so I had to go listen to some clips. They are fun. I'm not quite sure about Orange Blossom Special although it did make me whoop a bit, but I liked Besame Mucho and Mamma Mia and the polkas alot.
. And thanks for those tutorial websites, I shall have fun reading them!Heeheedfernandez77 wrote:It seems you already have many friends here (at Chiff & Fipple) who are interested and encouraging.
I'm definately going to get a whistle now, maybe even two (both the C and the D whistle)! So are these two whistles the high ones? Yup, I shallmutepointe wrote:let us know which whistle you got. let us know how it goes too.
They're kind of in the middle. You can get whistles as high as G above that standard D, and all the way down to about Low C, that's an octave below the standard C - but at that point you really have to have huge hands to be able to manage the finger stretch.hannah wrote:Wow everyone, thanks for all your great advices!
"Pile." Heh! Heh! Married a couple of weeks and already not paying attention to what your husband says, eh?avanutria wrote: If you'd like these you are welcome to them; if not just let us know and we'll put them back in the pile.
"Pile." Heh! Heh! Married a couple of weeks and already not paying attention to what your husband says, eh?avanutria wrote: If you'd like these you are welcome to them; if not just let us know and we'll put them back in the pile.
Not half so sad as it sitting on the shelf and ending up in the landfill when the store cleans out its old stock. When I was 16, I wandered in to a music store one afternoon and saw a cheap wooden recorder with a how-to book for a couple dollars. I bought it and taught myself to play a couple tunes then put it in the closet. Every few years, I'd pull it out and toodle a bit then put it back on the shelf. That little recorder traveled the world with me for 45 years. About five years ago, I finally decided to really learn to play it. I quickly got a better instrument and joined a local pick-up group. I discovered the whistle while looking for free music on the web. The whistle tunes sounded good on the recorder but even better on the first cheap whistle I bought. I now have the obligatory jar of whistles and seven recorders. That little wood recorder? It's still in the collection and always will be.hannah wrote:...but what I’d hate to see is that after a couple of months my poor tin whistle sitting in the cupboard abandoned…that’d be so sad.
see, see I'm not alone in having lots of recorders. I'm waiting on whistle number 3 to show up and on recorders numbers 10 and 11.walrii wrote: About five years ago, I finally decided to really learn to play it. I quickly got a better instrument and joined a local pick-up group. I discovered the whistle while looking for free music on the web. The whistle tunes sounded good on the recorder but even better on the first cheap whistle I bought. I now have the obligatory jar of whistles and seven recorders. That little wood recorder? It's still in the collection and always will be.
The last one was a Waltons Mellow D.avanutria wrote: Martin went through his whistles last night and picked some out, I think there was a sweetone D, Meg C, generation D and possibly another D that I've forgotten. If you'd like these you are welcome to them; if not just let us know and we'll put them back in the pile.
Simple WhOA sufferers should reflect on a life plagued by both WhOA and ROAD. I'm sure cutterpup will agree it's a wonderful combination of aliments.cutterpup wrote:I'm waiting on whistle number 3 to show up and on recorders numbers 10 and 11.walrii wrote:I now have the obligatory jar of whistles and seven recorders.
. Anyway, I can sort of play a 2-octave D major scale (and the beginning of The Shire from Lord of the Rings ). 
You might try swallowing before you start to play, and blowing from the back of your throat. The amount of moisture people produce when playing varies, but you really shouldn't have that much coming out of your whistle.hannah wrote: Also, I'm so surprised by the amount of spit that came dribbling out from the bottom of the whistle, ew...so everytime I play I always have to have a tray in front of me so that the saliva doesn't go on the carpet
