You can get brass tubing from specialshapes.com or a local Hobbytown store. And yes, the TWCALC program will do a six hole verision of the Ahava Rabba mode. However, it is better to have that mode in seven holes simply because a lot of Jewish music (and Arabic as well) descend down to that extra lower C note.
Please write to me if you need help with the tonehole positions.
BTW - I'm making plans to have the Ahava Rabba mode whistle available in additional keys. I've done it by special request, but my website will have a 'cart' entry set up for different keys and the how much stretch it is for the fingers.
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Lunasa played a piece called Frailock
Also known as Frailach or Itzikel
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/445
In the first Lunasa tune book, it is transposed into D.
If you copy/paste the ABC from the session into
http://www.concertina.net/tunes_convert.html
you can hear the tune.
If you get win2abc, you can transpose the midi file,
or the abc to any key you want i.e. from say C to D,
or Bb to D, etc
If played slower the first time round, then slightly faster
the second, and 'go for it' on the third,
you can really get people dancing.
Also known as Frailach or Itzikel
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/445
In the first Lunasa tune book, it is transposed into D.
If you copy/paste the ABC from the session into
http://www.concertina.net/tunes_convert.html
you can hear the tune.
If you get win2abc, you can transpose the midi file,
or the abc to any key you want i.e. from say C to D,
or Bb to D, etc
If played slower the first time round, then slightly faster
the second, and 'go for it' on the third,
you can really get people dancing.
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Yes, of course you can, if you cross finger or half hole to obtain a Bb that satisfies. And if you can do that you will get the other relative modes I mentioned earlier including B harmonic minor.bjs wrote:
Can be done easily on whistle:
F# G Bb B C# D E F#
Can you do this at speed though, great speed? Listen to Klezmer.
Thats the the good thing about a Bingamon tailor made whistle.
Even a beginner will be able to be at it at speed.
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Yes I have one with the extra C hole. It is fun to mess about with and sounds very eastern but it is way out of tune and not in any consistent way. I have had it for some time so they may be better now.Can you do this at speed though, great speed? Listen to Klezmer.
Thats the the good thing about a Bingamon tailor made whistle.
Even a beginner will be able to be at it at speed.
Supposedly tuned to:
C, D, Eb, F#, G, A, Bb, C, D
The A is somewhere between A and Ab and curiously the second C (all holes open) comes out as a B. Maybe if I blow harder .....
Typical of NON-diatonic modes, the Ahava Rabba has LESS than 6 intervals that can be the root of a harmonic chordal triad. In this one, the unrootable ones are the 3rd and the 5th. Thats only two for this. Diatonics have only one unrootable. Bhairav/Hejaz Kar (I think Daniel uses the term Roma) has 3 unrootables.
You can see now why the diatonics under the banner of major/minor key signatures predominate in modern western chordal music. Can't you?
You can see now why the diatonics under the banner of major/minor key signatures predominate in modern western chordal music. Can't you?
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