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by Champ
Tue Feb 12, 2002 8:38 pm
Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Whistle Forum
Topic: OT: Who's playing Mandolin out there?
Replies: 54
Views: 11615

Don't forget to figure in the exchange rates for the various countries while you are window shopping.

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by Champ
Tue Feb 12, 2002 3:01 pm
Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Whistle Forum
Topic: OT: Who's playing Mandolin out there?
Replies: 54
Views: 11615

You mando playing whistlers might like to browse over to my guitar/zouk/mando making friends website and drool over the mandolins on his gallery pages - http://www.dandubowski.com
by Champ
Sun Feb 10, 2002 6:28 pm
Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Whistle Forum
Topic: Raffle: Fred Rose Blackwood in D
Replies: 28
Views: 4374

I'd prefer to pay as little as possible per ticket but have the freedom to buy as many tickets as I feel I can afford.
by Champ
Sun Feb 10, 2002 3:24 pm
Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Whistle Forum
Topic: Raffle: Fred Rose Blackwood in D
Replies: 28
Views: 4374

While charging as much as possible for a ticket will ensure Dale raises heaps for charity, it would exclude those less affluent Chiff and Fipplers (particularly those from countries with poor exchange rates). Sorry Dale, you'll have to make a choice between making the raffle accessible to all or rai...
by Champ
Mon Jan 21, 2002 7:39 pm
Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Whistle Forum
Topic: Band web pages
Replies: 13
Views: 3745

by Champ
Thu Jan 17, 2002 11:59 pm
Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Whistle Forum
Topic: where to practice?
Replies: 65
Views: 12290

Most of the serious suggestions wouldn't work for me. I find the embouchure required to make any given whistle sound sweet differs significantly from other whistles. Further more, the embouchure varies as one moves from low D to the highest notes. Only through lots of practice on just one whistle ca...
by Champ
Wed Jan 16, 2002 3:32 pm
Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Whistle Forum
Topic: How Do I Start ? (Dumb question)
Replies: 4
Views: 2098

How to start eh? Just buy any old cheapie ... better still get a couple of different ones. A SweetTone, a Clarke original, a Generation, anything from your local music shop will be fine to get started. Buy a D rather than a C. You won't regret it. Most music available for whistles is in D and most o...
by Champ
Sun Jan 13, 2002 8:22 pm
Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Whistle Forum
Topic: Source for guitar tabs?
Replies: 7
Views: 1727

Are there are some tunes you're already good at on whistle that you'd like chords to? If so, list them and I'll check my collection of music and see if I can help.
by Champ
Thu Jan 10, 2002 7:25 pm
Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Whistle Forum
Topic: where to practice?
Replies: 65
Views: 12290

My family hate me playing. I get chased out of one room after another trying to avoid everyone ... it's horrible.

The only solution I can suggest, and the one I'm working on, is move the family into a new how that will have an acoustically insulated room just for you to play music in.
by Champ
Sun Jan 06, 2002 7:40 pm
Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Whistle Forum
Topic: plastic fife
Replies: 3
Views: 1171

I've got one of the Yamaha fifes. Fifes are side blown - ie, a small flute. Most fifes have fingering that is the same as that of a whistle, however, the Yamaha fife is the exception. It has fingering which is very similar (but not exactly the same) as that of a C recorder. I've found my Yamaha fife...
by Champ
Tue Dec 18, 2001 2:34 pm
Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Whistle Forum
Topic: Morrison's Jig Again
Replies: 19
Views: 4559

I just ran throught the B part of Morrisons in my head and couldn't find any triplets, so I checked at tune finder and it agreed with my humming ... no triplets?
by Champ
Sun Dec 02, 2001 3:50 pm
Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Whistle Forum
Topic: St. Patrick was a Cajun.......
Replies: 9
Views: 1837

I have both the book and the CDs and I think they're very good. The guys I play with like them too so we've incorporated a couple of the tunes into our "performance" repetoire. Whilst most sound like Irish Trad tunes, a few (my favourites), have both an Irish sound and hints of influence f...
by Champ
Sun Nov 25, 2001 8:37 pm
Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Whistle Forum
Topic: When the tune is too low for the whistle...
Replies: 37
Views: 6307

Every time a fiddle player bows 2 strings at once - which is far from unheard of in Irish music - a chord is produced. Every time a player plays a harmony or a variation on the melody a chord is strongly implied. To suggest that traditional Irish tunes consisted of one note at time melodies is nonse...
by Champ
Thu Nov 22, 2001 9:55 pm
Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Whistle Forum
Topic: When the tune is too low for the whistle...
Replies: 37
Views: 6307

The reason ... |: ~G2BG EGDE | ~G3 B AGAB | works is that the chord a guitarist would use to accompany the first bar would probably be an E minor, with a switch to G major for the start of the second bar. When the melody goes too low for the whistle you can generally harmonise by picking a note from...
by Champ
Thu Nov 22, 2001 7:57 pm
Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Whistle Forum
Topic: relative ease of learning the whistle ?
Replies: 20
Views: 4171

Learning to (1) read music and/or (2) learning to internalise (ie, memorise - more or less) music and/or (3) learning to play by ear could probably be considered "musicianship" skills rather than whistle specific skills. If I was good at one of these 3 skills (and blowing sweetly and fluen...