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Mollenhauer make instruments at many different quality and price points. Their cheapest descant, the "Swing", is nearly as bad as anything Adler made. I've never tried one of their tenors but I don't believe the brand name alone would tell you enough about what you were getting. Moeck stuf...

I have one of those.

Compared with a kilt, it wraps the wrong way round - a real kilt is wound clockwise round your waist.

I use a presentation whisky tin with three pouches made of recycled leather.

There is such a thing as weasel coffee:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kopi_Luwak

Maybe Weasel whistles are produced in a similar way?

It's just dietary fibre.

You'll get it back in a day or so.

The "laughing" (or sobbing) effect you hear so often in klezmer is a "krechts" - you end a note with a sharp upward slide as you cut it off.

The people who put that Manchester site together have moved to Edinburgh and started our local group here.

Corrected and updated versions of the tunes here for a while:

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/ief6mlgq6vw38a1/vOIZDg1S_k

It isn't a freilach, it's a klezmer listening piece (dobriden or dobranotsh). Can't recall if it's got a name but it it's pretty widely played in the klezmer scene (and VERY much better than that dull expressionless mess Lunasa make of it).

Not all Italians have been enthusiasts for pasta:

http://cabinetmagazine.org/issues/10/anti-pasta.php

Flageolets (or csakans) played sideblown like that are an old idea. The Dayton Miller collection has one from about 1810.

It would be interesting to identify a recording of Micho playing it. I haven't been very impressed with the csakans and English flageolets I've heard, maybe he could do better.

Look in the background of this video about the Mollenhauer csakan: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtEzr1jMltU They appear to have two pole lathes. That's really trying for authenticty. Anybody here used one? (The csakan doesn't appeal to me at all - has a sound in between a recorder, whistle and tra...

It's originally a song. During the 18th century several different multi-part or variation settings of it were composed. It seems to have been Irish originally but became more popular in Scotland and was more elaborately developed there, though there isn't much trace of it in Scotland after the early...

I think this must be the most intimidating tutorial for any kind of musical activity on the whole of YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRUKveL3big

Made damn sure that I'm never going to try it, anyway.

And some more. How to make one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ft_7Og4Ga8

It has a bimetallic joint, brass and aluminium sliding against each other?

Not a brilliant design, surely?

Is it simply corroding itself to bits?