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BigDavy wrote:Hi Sean

FolkHibernia - on Daily Motion


David

Part 1 only?

s1m0n wrote:English co-opts words all the time.

"We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary."

-- James Nicoll

Although I'm quite sure I'm too old to even consider trying such a thing, I'm still curious:

Who's the oldest runner to complete Ramsay's Round?

Anybody have any inside information on when this may be available?

I'd really like to see what she teaches about slow airs ...

Nanohedron wrote:, brayed Jerry Lewis

(without Dean Martin)

AaronFW wrote: It has been a little surprising to me to see people post clarinets on eBay and call them flutes.

I once saw an item in a flea market labelled as a "dartboard".

It was a chessboard.

I often see people saying blow harder to play the second octave, but what I like to tell people is to blow faster. I think it can help you develop good technique by thinking about it that way. When I saw this advice (in the big Grey Larsen book) and started doing it, the quality of my second octave...

Perhaps Ochs' version is put up into a higher key. Yes, it's in a section of the tutorial expressly on third-octave notes, and goes to third-octave G. In these cases I usually half-hole it; I'm already at B, all I need to do is crack open the C# hole a tiny bit. Ochs actually says that's the best w...

In the Ochs tutorial, at the tune Constant Billy, Ochs recommends half-holing 2nd octave C-natural but also suggests looking at the fingering chart in the back of the book for an alternate fingering. This is oxo xxx. Has anyone else tried this? The difficulty (challenge!) I'm running into is that I'...

Nanohedron wrote: I wrote some doggerel about them; "Google, Yahoo!, Baidu and Bing" has too much snap to resist.

The doggerel wouldn't be based on "Christ, Marx, Wood and Wei", would it?

The name Steáfán, if the fadas are included, seems to be unique to Steáfán Hannigan , at least in googledom. The usual Irish version of Stephen is Stiofán. I would have expected Steáfán to be pronounced something like SHTAW-fawn, but here's the man himself at 0:49 ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

Are there any stores in the Cleveland Ohio area I can walk in and buy a whistle? Most of the places I have gone have a whistle, a beginners book, and a CD. I just want to walk in, see some generation whistles and walk out with one in hand...lol You're more likely to find that from a vendor at a fes...

Brighde Chaimbeul, young player extraordinaire of Scottish smallpipes, native speaker of Gàidhlig, born on the Isle of Skye:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9owse95kgV4

Surely a typesetting mistake. If you provide ABC for the last few bars of the section concerned, or a scan of the page, we should be able to solve the mystery. It really doesn't look like a typesetting mistake, or I'd think the measure wouldn't time out. Anyway, the main variant (measures 6-7-8 of ...

ytliek wrote:Yes, the entire series is worth a view.

I second that (having done so).