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how big
"How long is a penny whistle?"
Anyone have the link to that site?
Is there a chart that answers that oft asked one?
Has it a bar graph or an X Y curve?
If not who will and if so where?
Not me, too busy answering everyone who asks.
Just saying...
Seriously though wouldn't it be nice?
Mack
Anyone have the link to that site?
Is there a chart that answers that oft asked one?
Has it a bar graph or an X Y curve?
If not who will and if so where?
Not me, too busy answering everyone who asks.
Just saying...
Seriously though wouldn't it be nice?
Mack
Re: how big
Most are as long or short as they need to be. Unless they are to long or to short. Then perhaps the tuning slide will adjust to it. But then there may not be enough tuning slide. Or the distance from the wind way exit to the blade may be to far or to close..........................Mack.Hoover wrote:"How long is a penny whistle?"
Just saying...
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A penny will buy you about 10 seconds of my whistling the tune of your choice. For a nickel I'll play you the whole tune once, around 60 seconds. For a whole buck I'll play it three times through with no mistakes, and throw in wearing my spandex leotard and pink tutu. It's really quite a bargain.Mack.Hoover wrote:"How long is a penny whistle?"
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Re: how big
My menu: For a nickel I will play the whole tune three times through. For a buck, I won't play it at all.MTGuru wrote:A penny will buy you about 10 seconds of my whistling the tune of your choice. For a nickel I'll play you the whole tune once, around 60 seconds. For a whole buck I'll play it three times through with no mistakes, and throw in wearing my spandex leotard and pink tutu. It's really quite a bargain.Mack.Hoover wrote:"How long is a penny whistle?"
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Re: how big
Where do we send the check?MTGuru wrote: For a whole buck I'll play it three times through with no mistakes, and throw in wearing my spandex leotard and pink tutu.
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walrii wrote:My menu: For a nickel I will play the whole tune three times through. For a buck, I won't play it at all.
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Re: how big
Do you take Paypal? And is this a public performance only, or do you charge extra to send a video?MTGuru wrote:A penny will buy you about 10 seconds of my whistling the tune of your choice. For a nickel I'll play you the whole tune once, around 60 seconds. For a whole buck I'll play it three times through with no mistakes, and throw in wearing my spandex leotard and pink tutu. It's really quite a bargain.Mack.Hoover wrote:"How long is a penny whistle?"
Here's tae us--
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Damn few--
And they're a' deid--
Mair's the pity.
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Re: how big
Will a digm buy a parody?
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Re: how big
WOW! There's a visual I did not need this early in the morning, nor at all.MTGuru wrote:For a whole buck I'll play it three times through with no mistakes, and throw in wearing my spandex leotard and pink tutu. It's really quite a bargain.Mack.Hoover wrote:"How long is a penny whistle?"
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Re: how big
People ask that? I can't remember ever being asked that, playing whistle over 35 years now.Mack.Hoover wrote:"How long is a penny whistle?"
...busy answering everyone who asks.
People do ask all sorts of stupid questions.
There's a barbershop quartet that performs daily at Disneyland and one of the guys has a bumper sticker on his car which quotes an astoundingly stupid question he gets all the time, from people expressing interest in hiring the group to perform places:
"How many are in your quartet?"
My old Pipe Major did hundreds of solo gigs a year: funerals, weddings, shop openings, corporate meetings and parties, etc and he was amused at one question potential clients would regularly ask him:
"Are you going to wear your Full Kilt?"
It's a strange ignorant nonsensical question because there's no such thing as a 'full kilt'. A kilt is a kilt, it can't be any more full or less full than any other kilt.
He would say "one of these days.... one of these days, I'm going to tell one of these eejits "No, for your particular event I was thinking about wearing my Half Kilt!" just to see what they say!"
The thing I get all the time is potential clients specifically wanting me to play Yoo-Lee-Un pipes, to which I say fine yes I play both Highland pipes and uilleann pipes, and they say "we definitely don't want Scottish pipes, we want the Yoo-Lee-Un pipes"
... but then they describe the gig, how I'm supposed to march in the Bride, or march through a room, or whatever.
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Re: how big
"People ask that? I can't remember ever being asked that, playing whistle over 35 years now."
Maybe just the makers get it.
I'm never asked to play softer.
Never any reference to my kilt.
But are yours longer or shorter
(Not my kilt but my whistle)
Than Meg's or Berk's
Maybe just the makers get it.
I'm never asked to play softer.
Never any reference to my kilt.
But are yours longer or shorter
(Not my kilt but my whistle)
Than Meg's or Berk's
Re: how big
The only stupid question is the one not asked.
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Re: how big
A gentleman never tells.
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Re: how big
There are plenty of charts online of organ pipe lengths, but here's the mathMack.Hoover wrote:
Is there a chart that answers that oft asked one?
http://www.rwgiangiulio.com/math/pipelength.htm
The original Overton whistles were, after all, organ pipes with fingerholes drilled in them, more or less.
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Re: how big
Reminds me of the Woody Allen story about Abe Lincoln thinking he came up with the best joke ever.
Q: How long are a man's legs?
A: Long enough to reach the ground.
Q: How long are a man's legs?
A: Long enough to reach the ground.
Charlie
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