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Mary Did You Know If I can play it, it's easy! I made a Christmas CD for myself with music off mp3.com, before they closed up the free downloads site. <sob> I think the Mary Did You Know rendition on it is by Jennifer Avalon. She's got a site w/ music downloads for free, but doesn't include that son...

For those who haven't seen one, a cardboard dulcimer actually has a nice, strong, precicely fretted *wood* fretboard. The body is all that's cardboard, and it's sturdy enough that they hold up pretty well. I also can picture just how long an all-cardboard dulcimer would hold up against string tensio...

Wally Wally (Wali Wali) is an alternate title. It's a song claimed by lots of folk genres. For some more tasty versions search on mp3.com for "Water is Wide" (31 hits!), and try the ones by So's Your Mom (vocal incl. nice whistle work), Joe Dobbs or Jeffro Bodine (gentle bluegrass instrume...

On Hwy 192 in the Kissimmee area, I think it's between I-4 and Vineland Road, there's an indoor flea market / mall. It's right next to one of the big Buffet restaurants. A year ago I was in there and a booth with a bunch of African crafts had some cheap bamboo whistles. They looked like the generic ...

If you're wondering about where to get whistle raw materials, you haven't truly been struck with WhOC (whistle obsessive construction disorder). If you have been WhOCd, then you start pilfering anything tubular from the neighbors' trash bins, checking out the thrift stores for cheap things that coul...

Yup, Teri posted 'em before, around 3/10/01. At the time you labeled them reels and stored them with reels. To further confound things, I've got two renditions of Cooley's *Reel* by Mick, one from Clips&Snips around 2/16/01, recorded straight, and a second one I downloaded around 6/8/01, recorde...

I Heard The Voice Of Jesus Say is in the Cyberhymnal, at http://www.cyberhymnal.org/htm/i/h/iheardtv.htm , but there's two tunes for it. adrianh; do you use the tune titled Vox Delicti, or the one titled Kingsfold ("English melody", which sounds a lot like The Star of the County Down)? Tha...

I'm one of the ones Brian Lee sent his mp3 of The Coolin to --- send me your email addy, PhilO, and I'll email you a copy. Thanks for sending it out, Brian - it is a lovely piece. There's two other versions on Clips&Snips, one somewhat shorter, one a lot shorter. The one by Arto Vallivirta on a ...

AHA! I play Shule Agra (anglicized spelling), which sounds completely different to me from Shule Aroon/ Johnny Has Gone For A Soldier Midi at http://www.contemplator.com/folk/johnny.html vs. http://www.contemplator.com/folk/shulagra.html or for that matter about four other tune variants linked to th...

If you're twenty stories up, you're probably looking through plate glass, not something you can open, but however you do it, *listen* to the river. See if there's anything about its sounds that suggest a tune, or a theme, or even just a riff. Or maybe a possible instrument. Foghorn ... digiridoo? Bi...

Thomas -- Sorry for my poor typing -- I probably meant "pencil offense". That's a bit of Irish culture -- ever seen the John Wayne movie "The Quiet Man"? Remember the bit in the pub where (names are made up - I canna remember the right ones) Morrison says to his sidekick "Mi...

When Whistles are Militarized .... from a bagpipe page: The Great Highland Bagpipe is the only musical instrument ever to be banned as a weapon. Playing of the bagpipes was banned in Scotland by an Act of Parliament in 1747. After the last Jacobite Rising ended in 1746, the Hanoverian government tri...

I've got a Guy Van Duser tape like Joe referred to -- the opening track starts with Billy Novick leaning into Sweet Georgia Brown on pennywhistle a whoooole lot like someone would tackle it with jazz clarinet. It's a Rounder recording for Book-of-the-Month club, 1977, titled just Guy Van Duser - Fin...

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Did you use the tapered part of the ski pole? I figure I can get at least one cylindrical and one conical per pole. My local thrift shop supplied a pair of poles for cheap a while back, but I haven't perforated one yet. I'm sure my wife has noticed them in the trunk of the car, but she hasn't asked ...