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- Sat Apr 27, 2024 9:13 am
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Whistle Forum
- Topic: Next progression from a Clark advice please
- Replies: 4
- Views: 108
Re: Next progression from a Clark advice please
Part of learning the whistle is learning to reinstall in the high notes and play them as gently as they will let you. Which is something that may take time. Between breathcontrol and a degree of shading there are things that you can achieve there. I would suggest not to fuss over your next whistle t...
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 9:02 am
- Forum: Flute Forum
- Topic: Sam Murray - RIP
- Replies: 3
- Views: 502
Sam Murray - RIP
It is being reported elsewhere Sam Murray has died.
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 3:54 am
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Whistle Forum
- Topic: Generation B natural?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 479
Re: Generation B natural?
FWiW, another thread linked to Mac Nic whistles . They do a B (although named 'H' in the German fashion). At 60 euro perhaps a relatively "budget' option. Not a recommendation (I have not come across these 'in the flesh' or heard them played, so there's a caveat), but at least worth knowing abo...
- Sat Apr 20, 2024 7:01 am
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Whistle Forum
- Topic: Generation B natural?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 479
Re: Generation B natural?
Here's some guidance, to get you started, posted by Bill Haneman back in 2007 or so: An inexpensive alternative worth trying: As it happens, you can take a Bflat Generation and remove metal from both the top and bottom so that the top note is sharpened a semitone and the bottom note (all holes close...
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 6:41 am
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Whistle Forum
- Topic: Generation B natural?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 479
Re: Generation B natural?
They don't but a Bb is easily converted by cutting back both ends. 'How to' posts for both Bb-B and C-C# conversions have been made several times in the past.
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 9:59 am
- Forum: Uilleann Pipe forum
- Topic: Ebay Items
- Replies: 1850
- Views: 1187138
- Tue Apr 09, 2024 1:06 pm
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Whistle Forum
- Topic: Volume Control Ring - Why Doesn't it Exist??
- Replies: 6
- Views: 488
Re: Volume Control Ring - Why Doesn't it Exist??
Yes, much like thisQuarktäsche Deluxe wrote: ↑Tue Apr 09, 2024 10:07 am And they are doing it with their lips? You would have to take the whole mouthpiece in your mouth to do that...
- Sun Mar 31, 2024 2:58 pm
- Forum: Irish Traditional Music Forum
- Topic: Bothy Band re-form for "Celtic Connections" Jan.2024
- Replies: 6
- Views: 9257
Re: Bothy Band re-form for "Celtic Connections" Jan.2024
TG4 has a lovely documentary with the band preparing for the reunion and the full concert after. Airing right now.
An Bothy Band
An Bothy Band
- Sun Mar 31, 2024 3:26 am
- Forum: Flute Forum
- Topic: was there ever any attempts to make a flute with valves?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 567
Re: was there ever any attempts to make a flute with valves?
If you insist using the term, read description of 'aerophone' again and apply correctly.Oops. I should have said "reedless aerophone."
- Sat Mar 30, 2024 3:48 pm
- Forum: Flute Forum
- Topic: was there ever any attempts to make a flute with valves?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 567
Re: was there ever any attempts to make a flute with valves?
https://collectionapi.metmuseum.org/api/collection/v1/iiif/504684/1026600/main-image I think there are two reasons that brass instruments have valves, while other instruments (particularly aerophones) do not. .. aerophone, any of a class of musical instruments in which a vibrating mass of air produ...
- Tue Mar 26, 2024 12:52 pm
- Forum: Irish Traditional Music Forum
- Topic: Michael Coady - RIP
- Replies: 0
- Views: 1315
Michael Coady - RIP
I just read the writer and poet Michael Coady has died. RTE news : Death announced of writer and poet Michael Coady Coady was many things but in the context of this forum he was a close friend of the Russells of Doonagore, Doolin and the author of the wonderful 1996 memoir of Packie and Micho Russel...
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 8:48 am
- Forum: Uilleann Pipe forum
- Topic: Piping Newsletter Archive
- Replies: 2
- Views: 983
Re: Piping Newsletter Archive
'The other piping forum' used to give access to the Seatle pipets' newsletter but that forum is long gone.
NPU has it available now through their archive :
The pipers review
NPU has it available now through their archive :
The pipers review
- Sat Mar 23, 2024 1:30 pm
- Forum: Sold and Old
- Topic: Two Whistles For Sale (Humphrey and a Mystery Whistle) (SOLD)
- Replies: 2
- Views: 280
Re: Two Whistles For Sale (Humphrey and a Mystery Whistle)
Olivier Bouchard. Most likely.The other is a "Mystery" whistle.
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- Mon Mar 18, 2024 4:36 am
- Forum: Flute Forum
- Topic: Flute recordings - Happy St. Patrick's Day 2024
- Replies: 2
- Views: 365
Re: Flute recordings - Happy St. Patrick's Day 2024
/quote] 4 tunes played by PEG McGRATH when she became only the second woman to win the Senior All-Ireland flute title since Fleadhs started in 1951. Apart from the LP record she made with the Belfast "Cherish The Ladies" trio, I am not aware of many other recordings of her, although there...
- Sun Mar 17, 2024 11:36 am
- Forum: Flute Forum
- Topic: Wassup with connecting to C&F
- Replies: 13
- Views: 707
Re: Wassup with connecting to C&F
perhaps a better contact for the Administrator might be in order. In fairness, 'dalewiely' was an obvious enough typo. It was corrected earlier this week, I think. That said, the forum had been playing up with increasing numbers of server errors for at least a week or two, so there were signs thing...