Thanks for your expressions of appreciation. When the site started, I took it over as third owner and ran it since. (I checked; the first entry is in 2002, so approximately around then.) It was a lot of fun emailing back and forth with enthusiastic whistle (and other instrument) players and posting our tunes. Of course, it started exclusively with C&F members, but evolved to include people from all over the world, including Russia, China, and Argentina, to name a few random spots on the globe. Would have been cool to get a post from a future Mars colony, but that's for another generation.
I developed some fond email friendships as a result of the interactions, people I would have loved to meet in person. Some of us did get together back around 2003. The site has some photos if you scroll down the left side of the newspage:
http://tinwhistletunes.com/clipssnip/Ch ... ing05.html This was one of several yearly parties at my mom's house in San Pablo, CA. Almost all the people in the photos are C&Fers or their SO's. Some people drove quite a distance to attend. There are some live music links on the page as well. You may notice the beginners' compulsion to play faster as a set progresses. (Took me years to break that habit.) My mom, 92, is still in that house and Lance/Weekender still lives 2 blocks down the street. I always look at his house when I swing by. If he's working on his lawn or in his garage, I pull up and yack with him for an hour or two.
Just for fun:
http://tinwhistletunes.com/clipssnip/Chiff10-06.htm An Irish cousin, attending my sister's wedding, taught everyone a slide, which another sister remembered and taught to the party goers. Maybe when the pandemic is over...
So, presently, I'm out of the loop. Is there a central location where C&F people share tunes? I got away from self recording a while back. I could be enticed to put something out there if there was a sharing place. Probably not TikTok, huh?
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