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On 2002-06-24 12:26, burnsbyrne wrote: Now we can try some harder ones like is it the English channel or the French channel. The Persian gulf or the Arabian gulf. And what about French toast, French fries, Belgian waffles.... Mike The channel is exactly that ("The Channel") I suspect the ...

On 2002-06-24 08:21, burnsbyrne wrote: There also is precedent for confused naming of musical instruments, eg, the French horn (why is it French?) or the English horn which isn't a horn but a double reed. This could be fun thread, things with misleading names. Mike HA! I'm an oboe/English Horn play...

The instruments that my band use to accompany whistle are: accordion, guitar, bouzouki (spelling?), lots of percussion (bodhran, bongos, side drum, etc.), clarsach, piano + loads of other stuff!
Also the whistle is GREAT as an accompaniment for voices.

I use both grips. I use the "finger-pad" grip for whistles with small holes (eg shaw low D) and piper's grip for low whistles with "fatter" holes - like my susato low d. I also think that playing with piper's grip gives me a better tone - I know that sounds a bit weird, but it so...

cheers! I've got a wee clip-on style mike that fits to the bell of my oboe. It sticks on with velcro (I've got a pad of velcro glued to the underside of the bell). I could maybe stick a velcro pads to my favourite whistle so that I could use the mike for all of them (it's a pretty good mike and I ca...

I've been playing quite a few gigs recently on my whistles, and I'm beginning to realize a problem with getting them properly "mike-ed up". It's normally OK for small gigs to just play to a standard microphone, but these don't always pick up everything. I've tried using the instrument micr...

Cheers, I knew it would be something pretty obvious!

Sorry for my usual ignorance, but what is the "Rocky Mountain Session"?

I know it's probably really obvious, but what does OT stand for?
Is it something to do with not being related to whistling?!

I use loads of percussion in my band.
We use bodhran, side drum, drum kit, bongos, udu drums, djembe, congas, spoons, bones, a bass drum, tenor drums, a very old miltary drum, a frog (it's a big hollow wooden frog with spines like a guiro) and anything else we can get our hands on!

Thanks for correcting me there guys.
I know ornamentation's not my strong point - I really will have to get a book on it or something!

On 2002-05-30 09:03, burnsbyrne wrote: It often takes a trip to Scotland, Poland or wherever for many North Americans to realize that they are Americans/Canadians and not whatever ethnic group they identify with. This realization can be discomfiting because it brings home the fact that they really ...

I'm not absolutely sure, but I think a "casadh" is a bit like the classical mordent, and should be played: (on an E) xxx xxo, xxo xxo, xxx xxo (very quickly) I don't always cut with my 3rd finger, the piper that showed me how to play ornaments uses all sorts of cut. This is a really cool o...

Si Bheag, Si Mhor is my current favourite tune!
Enjoy

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On 2002-05-29 18:06, DazedinLA wrote: Gordon: Yes, I think I get your point, but there is one exception, isnt there, unless Im missingyoru point somehow...and that is when you want to find whether the whistle is in tune with itself. So if the whistle is in tune with itself, you would tune on low D ...