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by jmryan
Sun Feb 21, 2010 12:48 pm
Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Whistle Forum
Topic: Help with Roisin Dubh
Replies: 12
Views: 2932

Re: Help with Roisin Dubh

Dr. Phill, Thank you, Thank you. You hit the hammer on the bingo nail. I don't remember when I downloaded it but that is the one I was looking for. And it looks like Matt Cunningham is playing it on a Generation Bflat whistle. Which I was doing. Also the tune ends on an Eflat which I think should be...
by jmryan
Sun Feb 21, 2010 8:55 am
Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Whistle Forum
Topic: Help with Roisin Dubh
Replies: 12
Views: 2932

Help with Roisin Dubh

I first heard this played years ago by one of the Dubliners on the mandolin and I taught it was fantastic. I have heard it played by various musicians on the tin whistle. I downloaded a copy of this tune from only God knows where. I am a relative newcomer to the whistle after playing the bagpipes in...
by jmryan
Fri Nov 06, 2009 5:42 am
Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Whistle Forum
Topic: What Traditional Music can be played on a B flat whistle.
Replies: 10
Views: 4634

What Traditional Music can be played on a B flat whistle.

Hello Group, I played the bagpipes on and off for 30 years in Chicago with the Shannon Rovers. I always had a tin whistle in my pipe case and I could play one tune, Roddy McCorley. About 25 years ago on my first trip to Spain I bought a whole set of Generation whistles and as I remember the price wa...
by jmryan
Thu Jul 23, 2009 4:02 am
Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Whistle Forum
Topic: 100 Reasons to play the whistle
Replies: 103
Views: 13590

Re: 100 Reasons to play the whistle

16. It keeps the fingers supple for those more mature whistlers