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Teenagers are sarcastic, the middle aged are sardonic. A matter of learned finesse, perhaps?

You'll need to figure out a way to work a small bevel (between 1/32 and 1/16 inch) onto the exit corner of the block, where the air spills into the voicing window (rectangular opening on top). Be careful not to overdo it. Hmm, figure out a way is right -- just spent the last half hour trying to pok...

Using a vice to clamp the whistle also eliminates and gaps around the fipple plug, Sounds way more sensible than my method, only I don't have a vice... well, actually I have several of vices, but they're along the order of handrolling tobaccoes and microbrews, not the useful mechanical kind -- thos...

When I have folks visiting from out of town, I always take them out to the Columbia River Gorge (it's, well, gorgeous). To get there and have the best views, you take highway 84 west for a while, and then take the "Scenic Highway" exit at ->CORBETT<-, *not* the Scenic Highway exit at Trout...

Having read thru various vintage threads on other newbies adventures with Clarke originals, seemed like maybe I should recount my adventures for future explorers, particularly as my story has a happy ending. Once upon a time, long ago and far away, I played recorder and tinwhistle, but stopped durin...

And thanks, Ava, for the warm welcome -- always so very reassuring to receive a friendly greeting when wandering into a new forum. I'm looking forward to posting.

Noel

OK, for some mysterious reason the "squidgirl" activation message was invisible via webmail, yet I was able to download it (???). That account is now succeessfullly activated. And I just noticed that the mailbox for the new addy I put on the noelvn acccount was full'o'spam, so it presumabl...