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Huhupat wrote:...With another pair tuned in fourths, I’d be able to play four pipes with two hands...

Ambitious Will need a lot of breath too!

Mr.Gumby wrote:It's been a long time since 1970s music was 'contemporary'.

Good point! I guess I'm getting old 0:

I melded two half whistles. Eventually I'lll copy the design in wood or metal. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1G_cuSgwOhM Interesting. See my two posts just above (July 17th and July 25th). Both these tunes are played using a strapped on drone whistle. Not using any holes on the drone though, like...

Pop / Rock medley played on a Shaw 'A' whistle. With the help of an Akai clip-on woodwind mike, and a chorus peddle. Stealers Wheel "Stuck in the middle with you", and Bachman-Turner Overdrive "You ain't seen nothing yet". Whistles can do traditional *and* contemporary :) [like t...

'The Balquhidder Lasses', normally a reel but played slow and melancholy. On a Shaw 'A' whistle with drone whistle attached. The drone whistle is brought in and out during the first 2 passes of the tune, in a 'call and answer' phrasing, then left in for all of the third pass of the tune. Just to go ...

'Kate at the Gate' (by Nigel Eaton, originally for hurdy-gurdy) Me on whistle, with a couple of old comrades in musical crime. The whistle is a Shaw 'A', with an A drone whistle also attached. Starts pretty, but ends heavy-metal (well, Nigel Eaton played live with Led Zeppelin, so maybe appropriate)...

Are drones whistles added to the (main) whistle counted as 'tweaks', or would that be a completely different topic? I've played twin-bore, so to speak for over 20 years, and its a really great sound, albeit much more suitable for some genres of music than others. There's rather an art to making it w...