Instruments similar to the whistle?

Tommy · Post by **Tommy** » Sun Apr 09, 2006 9:55 pm

www.ringflute.com

Chief Wanganui · Post by **Chief Wanganui** » Mon Apr 10, 2006 4:48 am

Tommy wrote:www.ringflute.com

Maybe I'm just a terminal curmudgeon, but you'd think that the maker would bother to
A: build it in tune or,
B: have someone who can play in tune demonstrate it?!
Makes sense to me.

Jerry Freeman · Post by **Jerry Freeman** » Mon Apr 10, 2006 6:26 am

Chief Wanganui wrote:
Tommy wrote:www.ringflute.com
Maybe I'm just a terminal curmudgeon, but you'd think that the maker would bother to
A: build it in tune or,
B: have someone who can play in tune demonstrate it?!
Makes sense to me.

Ouch!

Or both, maybe.

Nice tune, though. Vaguely familiar. I'm trying to place it. Seems like I've heard it a million times. Any idea where I might have heard it before?

Best wishes,
Jerry

Chief Wanganui · Post by **Chief Wanganui** » Mon Apr 10, 2006 6:33 am

Jerry Freeman wrote:
Chief Wanganui wrote:
Tommy wrote:www.ringflute.com
Maybe I'm just a terminal curmudgeon, but you'd think that the maker would bother to
A: build it in tune or,
B: have someone who can play in tune demonstrate it?!
Makes sense to me.
Ouch!

Or both, maybe.

Nice tune, though. Vaguely familiar. I'm trying to place it. Seems like I've heard it a million times. Any idea where I might have heard it before?

Best wishes,
Jerry

Joke, right?!

Jerry Freeman · Post by **Jerry Freeman** » Mon Apr 10, 2006 6:38 am

*sigh*

Nobody takes me seriously any more.

Best wishes,
Jerry

falkbeer · Post by **falkbeer** » Mon Apr 10, 2006 10:45 am

Tommy wrote:www.ringflute.com

What will they think of next...

Chief Wanganui · Post by **Chief Wanganui** » Mon Apr 10, 2006 10:59 am

falkbeer wrote:
Tommy wrote:www.ringflute.com
What will they think of next... :)

I may be shunted into the nether darkness to wail and gnash my teeth for this but, what do you call a piece of music played on the ringflute

.........(?)

falkbeer · Post by **falkbeer** » Mon Apr 10, 2006 11:04 am

Here is an idea! An instrument you can do yourself - for no money at all - and guaranteed to get attention!!! It´s my own invention, so I have no name for it yet (perhaps McDonalds straw chanter), but it´s a duble reed instrument - like the bagpipe.

OK - you pinch a couple of straws at McDonalds (they are the best). To make the head, with the reed, you cut of a couple of inches. Now flatten the end of this piece (you can heat it a little with a lighter), so it looks and work as a reed. Drill finger holes in the other straw and tune it from the bottom and up.
If you have done it right it will sound as a bagpipe chanter. You can make a couple of longer drones for some friends to blow in (two or three connected straws) - and hey presto, there is your instant bagpipe trio!

If you have done your straw chanter right (and drones) it will sound quite good, and most people will drop their yaws when they realize that you are playing on a McDonalds straw chanter. Weird but very funny!

Jerry Freeman · Post by **Jerry Freeman** » Mon Apr 10, 2006 11:11 am

Ringtone?

Best wishes,
Jerry

Jerry Freeman · Post by **Jerry Freeman** » Mon Apr 10, 2006 11:40 am

But seriously ...

Here's a typical conversation I have almost every day:

Stranger: "What line of work are you in?"

Me (the world's only fulltime professional pennywhistle tweaker): "Do you know what a pennywhistle is?"

Stranger: "No." (One in ten says "Yes.")

Me: "It's a musical instrument. Actually, you've heard them a lot. There's a pennywhistle in the theme song from Titanic and a lot of other movie soundtracks, TV commercials, popular music. It's a sort of high, birdlike fluty sound."

Stranger: "Oh. Yeah. I think I know what you mean."

The fact is, just about everyone has heard pennywhistles a lot, along with a variety of related instruments. Among the masses not familiar with Irish music, more often than not if I may dare to say so, that is thanks to the work of a single individual.

Could we please have a nice round of applause for Tony Hinnigan?

Best wishes,
Jerry

fearfaoin · Post by **fearfaoin** » Mon Apr 10, 2006 11:43 am

falkbeer wrote:... my own invention, so I have no name for it yet (perhaps McDonalds straw chanter), but it´s a duble reed instrument - like the bagpipe.

This reminds me of Daniel Bingamon's straw-reed CPVC cornmuse:
http://www.mimf.com/archives/cpvc_cornemuse.htm

Chief Wanganui · Post by **Chief Wanganui** » Mon Apr 10, 2006 12:16 pm

Jerry Freeman wrote:Ringtone?

Best wishes,
Jerry

Very good! But not what I had in mind.
Think the worst type of musician's gutter-humour.

fearfaoin · Post by **fearfaoin** » Mon Apr 10, 2006 12:26 pm

Chief Wanganui wrote:Very good! But not what I had in mind.
Think the worst type of musician's gutter-humour.

I think there might be a Scottish-American disconnect, here.

Chief Wanganui · Post by **Chief Wanganui** » Mon Apr 10, 2006 12:40 pm

fearfaoin wrote:
Chief Wanganui wrote:Very good! But not what I had in mind.
Think the worst type of musician's gutter-humour.
I think there might be a Scottish-American disconnect, here.

Does the word "ringpiece" exist in Murrcan?
Come to think of it, I've never heard any of my American colleagues use it.
However, they are all, of course, terribly polite.

fearfaoin · Post by **fearfaoin** » Mon Apr 10, 2006 12:43 pm

Chief Wanganui wrote:Does the word "ringpiece" exist in Murrcan?

Never heard it before. I had to look it up at Urbandictionary.com (Don't
do it if you're easily offended. In fact, never visit that site if your ever
offended at all.) Now I see where you're coming from.