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Maybe I am not following this. Does a D+ whistle (D whistle with an extra hole for low C natural) played with a crossed fingered C natural give a D mixolidian scale with a bagpipe-like lower 7th? If so drilling an extra hole and adding a bit of tube to a cheap D whistle would do the job and still b...

Yes highland/smallpipes chanter is what I play. You're overthinking my aims a bit. I'm not looking for an instrument to play along in a matched key with pipes or to exactly copy pipe fingering. If I understand what your proposed layout is, it comes close but doesn't exactly copy GHB fingering. The ...

Original, Folk, Boho, Aurora... are these just the same hole size/spacing and fipples in different coloured plastic or on different coloured barrels? It's really not obvious what the difference between these whistles is.

ecadre wrote: ↑Thu Oct 12, 2023 7:52 am I'm surmising that you're talking about the Great Highland Bagpipes (there are dozens and dozens, probably hundreds, of different types of bagpipes), so you may be interested in this:]

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Very cool!

I want to play mixolydian in the lower octave with a low b7. So a whistle that runs b7123456b7 makes much more sense and is much closer to how the music lies on a pipe chanter. I'm not following. A Highland pipe chanter? As a Highland piper who has also played uilleann pipes/Irish flute/Irish whist...

Why not just buy an E whistle? Carbony and Susato sell them. They play G sharps. And you'll never have any trouble playing in E myx, E major, or A major if you buy one. Because I want to play mixolydian in the lower octave with a low b7. So a whistle that runs b7123456b7 makes much more sense and i...

Why not just buy an E whistle? Carbony and Susato sell them. They play G sharps. And you'll never have any trouble playing in E myx, E major, or A major if you buy one. Because I want to play mixolydian in the lower octave with a low b7. So a whistle that runs b7123456b7 makes much more sense and i...

Years ago when I doing studio gigs fulltime I modified an ordinary High D whistle to play G# instead of G natural. Why? It was just so I could sight-read things in three sharps without having to transpose them for an A whistle or E whistle. All I did was carve out Hole 4 until it played an in-tune ...

Well in case anyone else is interested, I had a spare hour this morning and figured worst case scenario I'm out a $10 plastic whistle, no great loss. I enlarged the hole with progressively larger drill bits and then did a bit of cleanup filing and undercutting the upwind side of the hole to get a G#...

Have you tried closing (from the top) holes 1,2, 4, 5? That flattens the A enough to get a reasonable G-sharp on some of my D whistles. May have to vary the lower hole closures between the upper and lower octave to get a better G-sharp. I've played some whistles that will give a cross fingered G# l...

Per the title, I'd like to mod one of my cheap D whistles to play in E mixolydian so I can play pipe music in the lower octave instead of having to play on A (higher, shriller, more crossing the octave break). What would be the simplest way to do so? Would slightly enlarging the tone hole throw off ...

Hi folks. Ive been reading a facinating book about the health benefits of breathing always through the nose rather than the mouth. Now I know it feels instinctive when playing flute to take sharp intakes of breath through the mouth because it feels easier to quickly fill the lungs...but has anyone ...

Circular breathing is also known as “the glassblower’s trick” and requires significant resistance to the flow of air in order to work. It is used by classically trained oboists and is practicable on other high-pressure low-flow instruments. The flute is at the opposite end of that spectrum. Circula...

Is there a commonly accepted origin or explanation for why hornpipes and related tunes seem to often feature a higher degree of mode mixture or V of V style progressions with leading tones in the melodies vs other traditional tune types? It seems like a majority of hornpipes feature these implied ha...

Unlike O'Shea though I don't believe the tradition is broken or invented, it's continuity being much more illusive than any monolithic description attempted to be used as a meaning of "authentic" . Music cannot be caught and its proper meaning is only fully shared when actually being play...