Ohhhh, never say never my friend.........The Weekenders wrote:I still want another whistle, but I have to play it first. No more ordering.
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Anti-WhOA. Is this normal, Doctor?
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Re: Major infection
Wooohooo! just bought an Abell Hi-G!Doc Jones wrote:
I have the cure Patrick but it's painful. Buy yourself a set or two of pipes. Then you'll be so broke you won't even think about whistle acquisiton anymore.
Trust me, I know whereof I speak.
Some believe the flute can be a cure but I have seen many a sad case of FlOA and it's ugly. No, no...it must be the pipes.
Doc
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Re: Major infection
Doc Jones wrote:Wooohooo! just bought an Abell Hi-G!Doc Jones wrote:
I have the cure Patrick but it's painful. Buy yourself a set or two of pipes. Then you'll be so broke you won't even think about whistle acquisiton anymore.
Trust me, I know whereof I speak.
Some believe the flute can be a cure but I have seen many a sad case of FlOA and it's ugly. No, no...it must be the pipes.
Doc
Very cool whistle man, I've wanted one of those ever since I tried one a few years back.
Loren
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Re: Major infection
At this point, why seek a cure? Keep buying and trying, break on through to the 'other side'.patrickh wrote:
The disease is spreading throughout my system wildly. As a former sufferer who is now cured of MAS (Mandolin Aquisition Syndrome), I thought I would be resisent to this strain of infection but I was wrong. I am in serious trouble. Since the summer, my collection has grown to :
(5) Burkes - NB D - Brass, NB D - Allum, NB C, Session C and D.
(2) Busman (C and D) - a third (Eb) is coming
(1) Seery D
(1) Lon Dubh D
(2) Thin Weasels (C and High G)
(2) Black Diamonds (D and C)
(1) Greenwood (D)
(6) Assorted tweaks (Freeman, O'Briain)
(1) Silkstone D
On the way - Abell C/D set, Rose, Busman Eb, more tweaks (Irvine, Freeman, O'Briain), Humphrey D/C set, Water Weasel.
Scott Bridges
Auxilio ab alto
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Impressive, Patrick. I could say that I'm concentrating on the music now, and don't need any more whistles, but, when I arise on the morrow, who knows...what evil (spelled w-h-o-a) lurks in the heart of man...only the whistleman....whhaaaaaaaahahahahaaaaaaaaaaa! 
Philo
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Well, there's the answer, then. Now that I've achieved nigh perfection as a player, I just don't need all those whistles anymore.DCrom wrote:I suspect that for many of us rampant WhOA is an attempt to improve our playing - "surely if I find THE ONE whistle, the problems I have with all my other whistles will disappear". Of course, the real area that needs improving is our playing, but this looks like a quick fix.
Actually, for me it might be just the opposite. Concentrating on one whistle seems to make me a better player, especially when it comes to "personality" issues such as breath vibrato (which each whistle responds to differently), notes that need blown into tune, etc.
t
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For me, I've found that playing different whistle makes (and in different keys) has actually helped my playing quite a bit.
There was a time when I, too, thought I should focus on only one or two whistles. When I started branching out, I found that -- strangely (or so it seemed at the time) -- my playing on the whistles I'd been concentrating was getting much better.
Perhaps it's because I need to be flexible when playing substantially different whistles -- they require different fingerings, blowing, positioning, etc.
Moreover, I found this was also the case when I started learning the Irish flute about a year ago -- my struggles with the flute made me a better whistle player.
Of course, others have had exactly the opposite experience.
Walt
There was a time when I, too, thought I should focus on only one or two whistles. When I started branching out, I found that -- strangely (or so it seemed at the time) -- my playing on the whistles I'd been concentrating was getting much better.
Perhaps it's because I need to be flexible when playing substantially different whistles -- they require different fingerings, blowing, positioning, etc.
Moreover, I found this was also the case when I started learning the Irish flute about a year ago -- my struggles with the flute made me a better whistle player.
Of course, others have had exactly the opposite experience.
Walt
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Re: Major infection
Yeah, especially when WORLD FAMOUS flute makers keep sending you their best stuff!!!!!!!Doc Jones wrote:Some believe the flute can be a cure but I have seen many a sad case of FlOA and it's ugly. No, no...it must be the pipes.
Doc
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I'm happy with the collection I have..."collection" being of a streatch. I have 1 cheap D whistle (I don't know the brand), 1 Clarke Origional in D, one D Alba, 1 low D Alba, 1 C flute (inexpensive), and 1 G flute (also inexpensive). At the moment, I have no desire to acquire more, because I prefer to not switch back and forth constnatly and because I'm cheap.
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Last night I had several dreams where I was searching for someting--the last dream I was searching in the water at a beach.
Yes, I had spent part of the day been looking online at new whistles!
...perhaps a sign that I should STOP??
But seriously, I don't really think WHOA is a constuctive sickness. Whistles do play differently, and when I'm playing in my basement switching whistles for different sounds, I frequently overblow my Syn, underblow my Gen tweaked Bb, and basically screw up on my Burke D.
Yes, I had spent part of the day been looking online at new whistles!
...perhaps a sign that I should STOP??
But seriously, I don't really think WHOA is a constuctive sickness. Whistles do play differently, and when I'm playing in my basement switching whistles for different sounds, I frequently overblow my Syn, underblow my Gen tweaked Bb, and basically screw up on my Burke D.
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I'm a newbie in the whistle playing, as I began during last summer.
I don't suffer of WHOA, but I'm infected with another desease, the WHOB : Whistle Obsessive Building disorder !
I've already built 2 PVC D, 1 PVC/copper D, 1 copper D, 3 aluminium D and 1 PVC/copper Bb.
The last whistle I built is always my prefered one : I play it during a few days, indentifies the pros and cons and begin to build another one trying to keep the pros and suppress the cons. Well, the results are not always the ones I was thinking of, but I learn a lot about whistle design, and it's really funny !
I don't suffer of WHOA, but I'm infected with another desease, the WHOB : Whistle Obsessive Building disorder !
I've already built 2 PVC D, 1 PVC/copper D, 1 copper D, 3 aluminium D and 1 PVC/copper Bb.
The last whistle I built is always my prefered one : I play it during a few days, indentifies the pros and cons and begin to build another one trying to keep the pros and suppress the cons. Well, the results are not always the ones I was thinking of, but I learn a lot about whistle design, and it's really funny !
Thierry