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If you stick with the music, you'll get far more trenchant advice and comment than you'll get from me. The trick is to drop the defensiveness, and learn the difference between being "talked down to" as the beginner you in fact are, and being steered in the right direction by experienced p...

If you're grateful to Nano for saving you an hour's drive, just think of the next poor guy who shows up Thursday at 7:30 because they read your notice on TheSession ... You Know I don't know how many more times I can say I'm sorry! I don't understand why you feel the need to use guilt to make me fe...

I will check that out man thanks! Here's a question for you: Now I've been listing to ALOT of differnt albums, from all of Mary Bergin's albums, Joannie Madden's "Songs of the Irish Whistle: , Joe Mckenna's "The Irish Low Whistle" and Michael McGoldrick's "Wired" and it seem...

I really am sorry! Its not like there ae rules posted for this kind of thing, that's half the reason I am posting on this forum!

I'm sorry!!!!!!!!

giedosst, You should probably revise or delete the session listing you posted on TheSession, which is either incorrect or incomplete. http://www.thesession.org/sessions/display/2458 In general, it's not a good idea to publicize a session unless you're the organizer, or an actual participant and you...

Oh man Nanohedron Thanks a million you did save me a hour drive! Looks like I will have to catch the "Celtic Jam" on the 5th of November! In the mean time, this should give me plenty of time to get "The Silver Spear" up to snuff, or at least a decent speed! Now I've been listing ...

Hi Chiff and Fipplers! Ok, coming up on the 22nd is a session at The Spot Pub in Fergus Fall Minnesota. I found out about and and thought it would be a good chance to see some of this wonderful music I've been immersing myself in for the last year or so. I have these tunes down cold on penny whistle...

Cool! So soak the whistle head in some hot water for a few minutes to loosen the fipple? Could I use some of my grease from my susato to lube the whistle head to adjust the tuning or would it need to be affixed to a place permanently?

Ok! So the whistle sounds great! It has such a clean pure tone, nice and full on the low end and sweet and clear on the top! It will jump in to the 3rd D but anything after that is pretty painful! Its low D is in tune, while the high D is not and all the other notes in bettwen are all over the place...

Hi all!

Just got a red-headed Generations whistle set and was wondering how one goes about testing to see if the whistles are duds or the few rare good ones? As far as I can tell the D, Bb, C and F all play pretty decently, but what do I need to look for to see if these are keepers?

Hey guys! Thanks again for all your help, I never imaged that playing Tin Whistle was this much fun! Anyway I am really learning to get a good tone out of my tweaked Sweetone, but I have run into a snag! For the last few days I have been practicing 2 to 3 hours before bed. This evening I was working...

Ok np, I'll pull the air in, thanks for the advice, I'll take it!

Thank you.

Seriously,
I'm sorry if my questions annoy you. I have never played tin whistle before and I thought my newbie questions would'nt be a problem, sorry I asked!

Ok guys, got another question for you. I was just given a stock sweetone in addition to my freeman tw aked, and I noticed that both whistles are very touchy when it comes to Blowing the lower and upper octave. No matter what I do it seems to jump up unless I blow very softly, of coarse its not as ba...

Hi everybody!

Just got my Freeman Tweaked Sweetone Pennywhistle in D. This is a great instrument, with a magical sound, but I do have a question. I noticed that the tone is clear with a touch of air. Is this how it should be or am I blowing too hard?