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A fast search online shows a few pictures of Hudson Winds whistles, but not much to go on for timelines. https://clarkesmusiccompany.com/image/cache/catalog/Hudson%20Whistle/hudson-d-brass-pro-whistle-a3038-500x500.JPG I know less than zilch about them. Maybe email a current sales team for leads. T...

Sorry if this was already announced somewhere and I missed it.

It was. On that most unlikely of all unlikely places: the 'Mary Bergin whistle tutor' thread.

The old Pogue has sailed down the broad majestic Shannon.


I'm sad to say I must be on my way, so buy me beer and whiskey 'cause I'm going far away. I'd like to think of me returning when I can, to the greatest little boozer and to Sally MacLennane...

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Just in time for christmas

I like the smell and feel of beeswax and I have a lifetime supply from the time we had a few hives (which, unfortunately, had to go when the young fella developed a serious allergy for beestings). I loved having the bees but let's not dress up taking their honey and wax as 'bee friendly'. What's nex...

Whatever way you turn it, taking the food they collected and destroying the storage they built can never be 'friendly'. It is just marketing guff.

bee-friendly beeswax from Dorset

How does that work? Not sure the bees the wax was taken from will think it was a 'friendly' action.

Lucky you! I don't know Richard. Location, location, location. Musicians are likely to land here at sooner or later. Kevin Burke will turn up in a week or two, for example. Some recent snaps of two of the others: https://i.postimg.cc/dthPWmZb/DSC-1403-small.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/Kcqhrsj7/DSC-200...

I nearly got to see them around 1978. By the time the audience was seated in the hall the announcement came the band was stuck in customs at the ferryport, unable to make it. We were left with the choice of a refund or stay and see something else. Most of us did the latter and saw something not very...

Kilfenora fluteplayer JJ Conway has passed away. A stalwart of North Clare music but also a long standing member of the Tulla ceili band here . And ofcourse he played with the old Kilfenora band as well. Here , with Kitty Linnane, Tommy Peoples, Paddy 'Organ' Mullins, Francis Droney Mike Butler and ...

I thought I was long done with this thread but driving yesterday morning around the backroads of West Clare, Noirín ní Riain was being interviewed on the radio. All other things aside, there was one little bit where she spoke of how she was contacted by Sinead O'Connor during the nineties. O'Connor ...

No, you will need to shorten from both ends.

But why not just get a spare Eb body?

Connections seems to be slowing down, at times login attempts only successful after several times, a 'service unavailable' notice too, once. Trouble brewing?

"Just the place for a Snark!" the Bellman cried,
As he landed his crew with care..

I wish that the instrument market long ago had established a standard "whistle" quality much higher than it did, with a price of perhaps double the standard low whistle price, which would have allowed for higher quality parts and performance.. It's such a loss people like Micho Russell, S...