Tonight on the intro to Saturday Night Live, there was a guy that seemed to be playing two whistles at once, both in his mouth and one hand on each. Which left a lot of uncovered holes if my eyes were right. Did anyone else see this and can someone tell me what was up? Could they have been tabor pipes, for example? Or was it yet another way to make my whistle learning curve steeper?
Looked to me as though they were whistles (both nickel generations). Didn’t play more than two or three notes, though.
Hey, I recently saw a busker playing THREE instruments…a whistle in his mouth (sans hands) and one recorder shoved up each side of his nose. And, what’s more, one of the recorders was an alto! I took a picture and will figure out how to post it when I get back from vacation in a couple of weeks.
Jef
PS and the person with me at the time said, “Yikes, that guy is three times as good as you are.” Apparently he has a nose for music.
This is something I learned to do back in the Seventies on a tune from a Steel Eye Span record. For example:
You can play a Low D and a Low G together with the top three tone holes covered. The using the lower whistle as a drone note play a simple melody on the higher whistle. The lower one only varies a note or two and the higher one makes it interesting. I first tried this using Eb and Bb whistles. Other combinations are:
A & D
Low G & C
I always thought of it as playing harmony note intervals, thirds, fifths, etc.
It certainly turns heads when you do it on stage.
Jim
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Erik the Flute Maker sells a double pennywhistle combination.
Craig
I saw the late,great, multi-instrumentalist Don Cherry play two wooden whistles simultaneously.The real ‘master’was of course,‘Rahsaan Roland Kirk’ who oftenused to play two,and some times three,saxes at once.If that wasn’t extraordinary enough,he could play two harmonising SEPERATE melody lines simultaneously!! Check out a track called ‘Dance of the lobes’(referring to the two seperate lobes of the brain)if you get the chance,it really is amazing! kevin’jazzbuff’ m.
As soon as I get my corpus callossum separated, I’ll give it a shot. (Don’t know if that’s spelled right.)
Tony
For along time I knew my friend could play two recorders simultanously(sp?) by mouth. Then at music camp she tried playing one recorder through her nose. Somehow if progressed to two recorders through her nose, thus it became her celhi act-“Playing two recorders through my nose”. LOL
Caryn
PS I realize that was sorta random but this thread reminded me of it.
I saw that and agree- looked like 2 nickle generations, and I really would not call what I heard “playing” in any sense other than he was sounding different notes with each whistle most of the time.
Hey, jimr, which Steeleye Span tune? I have their first 12 records(have replaced some with cd’s but not all) and love their music.
At WOMAD last year I saw Daniel Lapp (a great guy!) play a trumpet and a violin simultaneously. Think about it. It was awesome (and the set, with his band LappElectro) was one of the highpoints of the weekend.
fatveg