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I'm enjoying this thread.
Very inspiring!

""abandon hope""


""Same here. Just got my new Tipple D in black PVC. Plays niiiiiice!""

Maki - Good news! I have virtually the same item on order....


Onward into the fog!

Well, after a year of noodling around with the tin whistle I have decided to dip a toe into the waters of the Irish flute. I wanted to play something with a lower tone, and I'll still be in safe waters in the key of D....

I guess I'll be a nOOB squared now
Any advice would be welcomed.

The tune should be easy to find on the internet in performance and score/ABC. Anything goes. Sing it in the shower, play it lugubriously on Souzaphone or merrily on the high G whistle. Play it approved ITM style or like Karajan conducting Mahler. Enjoy yourselves! I think it's a great idea :thumbsup:

Generation red top brass Bflat. Bought at Chester Folk Festival about 13 years ago for £2....

Nice.....

Oh. I'm enjoying the journey!
I figure I'll ascend to neeb-hood* when I can master the Mist Covered Mountains


* I'm thinking now of the knights who say "ni"

Well......the beard will be coming off any day now but I voted as I saw it

My green Clarke "Woodstock" I found in a toy store for $4.95. And I found a plastic Dixie whistle at a garage sale for $.50!

Both sound better than I imagined they would!

I don't know...this is pretty technically inclined bunch here.
(Have you seen the threads about tweaking and whistle quality?)
I think there should be a more precise definition!

"sgiomlaireachd"

Rolls right off the tongue, don't it?

I thought it would involve mastery of a tune that was old and Celtic.

When oh when can that label be peeled off?
What is the second rung called?
Post-noob?
Neeb?

Still reaching for that next rung, myself

but i still have fun.... that's the cool thing about music... it's real... it's fun... it happens...

Indeed!

Good stuff

After much thinking, I came to the conclusion I was *afraid* to play. I was afraid of learning improperly..... I wanted to learn the whistle for myself. I have no intentions of posting on youtube ( eeek, terrifying) or playing in sessions...... So why am I so worried that I will learn to play poorl...