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AS MANY OF you know, Michael Copeland has made some fine woodwinds over the decades. He made my flute in 1977, among the first 3 he ever assayed ... here's a new tune commemorating that and all the music that's flowed out of that wooden wonder since. https://youtu.be/ZLcuLHy5GAE

AS MANY OF you know, Michael Copeland has made some good woodwinds over the decades. He made my flute in 1977, among the first 3 he ever assayed ... here's a new tune commemorating that and all the music that's flowed out of that wooden wonder since. https://youtu.be/ZLcuLHy5GAE

At what age did you start playing/learning the tin whistle ? AGE 20 years, 11 months, 354 days Did you have any previous musical background? YES ... classical piano, pop/jazz alto sax, clarinet, recorder, harmonica Did you learn to read music first or learn mostly by ear? BOTH Starting tales ... htt...

A SEQUEL TO “St. Patrick Was a Cajun” is likely getting closer … when published by Ossian in 1998 I’d composed 78 original tunes in the Irish traditional idiom … 20 years on, that number stands at 235 … 58 composed the last 2 years, 8 this year with this the latest (as of yesterday) — “Thoughts 'n' ...

JUST PUBLISHED A NEW BOOK: A 726-page, 2-volume set on Irish Traditional Music … “What Whistle Would You Play at Your Mother’s Funeral? — L.E. McCullough’s Writings on Irish Traditional Music, 1974-2016, Vols. 1 & 2” . 300,000+ words, 122 articles, complete dissertation/2 theses — and a screenpl...

Bill had been my teacher for the last eight years. Thursdays in his little shotgun apartment on 46th Street and 10th Avenue. I will miss him. Pete Doyle I remember c. 1972 going to that apartment and him having to lower the key to the front door down in a basket so I could enter the building. Hell'...

IF ANYONE IS interested in the music notation for the tune, it is here: https://lemcculloughswhistleblog.wordpr ... new-tunes/

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L.E. McCullough

L.E. McCULLOUGH is now offering personal tinwhistle lessons … both “in-person” at Woodbridge, New Jersey studio or via Skype to anywhere on the planet … Full Details Here: https://lemcculloughswhistleblog.wordpr ... le-lesson/. All levels of experience cheerfully accepted.

L.E. McCULLOUGH is now offering personal tinwhistle lessons … both “in-person” at Woodbridge, New Jersey studio or via Skype to anywhere on the planet … Full Details Here: https://lemcculloughswhistleblog.wordpr ... le-lesson/. All levels of experience cheerfully accepted.

Hey, Everybody! I believe Steve Mansfield has the complete tune assembly (161 so far) up and available in ABC format. So, check in with him, grab the tunes and start playing. Thanks, Steve, Lesl and Gary for the tech flow. Thanks for the interest ... sorry I've been out of reach ... been running 3 t...

Check out a site called Creativity Post ( http://www.creativitypost.com ) that has many good articles on the subject of overcoming obstacles to achieving creative goals. Also worth reading: ART AND FEAR by David Bayles and Ted Orland. http://www.amazon.com/Art-Fear-Observations-Rewards-Artmaking/dp/...

Amy Beshara (fiddle), Pete Ford (guitar/vocal), L.E. McCullough (whistle/flute/bones/bodhran/harmonica) performing tonight 8-11 pm Dec. 21, 2012 at Shillelagh Club, 648 Prospect Ave., West Orange, New Jersey. Phone 973-325-9338. http://www.shillelaghclub.com/ Come celebrate the Darkest Night of the...

Music for Your Apocalypse ... http://lemcculloughswhistleblog.wordpress.com/2012/12/21/apocalypse-maybe-one-nite-only/ Fluter Mike Hogan said that the last thing he'd enjoy hearing as the universe ended was a new composition celebrating both the Apocalypse (re-scheduled from today) and the Solstice....

I once taught an adult tinwhistle student who’d been playing 3 years or so and didn’t yet sound very good. He’d hit a low plateau early on and just never got any better at rendering a coherent tune. He kept asking me to "make him better". Yet each week, as I tried to show him basic ornamen...

In the case of McCullough, it's more a virtuoso show-off thing, legitimate but idiosyncratic, and the musicality of which is open to debate - which is part of Gumby's point. And it's hard to assert where the technique sounds best when it's not needed at all.[/quote] Hey, this is L.E. McCullough, the...