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Control of octaves comes entirely from air pressure. Blow softly, you get the bottom octave. Harder, and you'll jump up into the second octave. Blow really hard and you'll hit the third, which will hit you back. If I understand this correctly (bearing in mind that I'm still new to the whistle, can'...

Now that I can play a couple of tunes on my tin whistle, I am contemplating the purchase of a fife. This is just an idea at this point, as purchasing another whistle is of higher priority. I am curious, though, as to whether a plastic fife would suffice or I would be better off waiting until I could...

Yeah. The whole thing is about attention, not about the curvature of the earth. Writing earnest pieces about why the stunt-guy is wrong is accepting his framing for the story, and means he wins. The public he's appealing to already knows he's wrong, and they don't care. They feel oppressed by scien...

Some seven or eight years ago, I bought a Walton's Irish Whistle that came with the book. I made some noise on it, but it remained largely untouched until last month. After some practice, I can now play a tune or two on it...and I'm now thinking of buying another whistle. I know that Freeman whistle...