Here it is again for those who missed it... and for those who may have somehow forgotten it.
_________________Dale,
As a little gift to the whistle community in honor of the release of the first
movie of the Lord of the Rings trilogy,
I offer "Ithilien," an instrumental piece for harp, viol, and whistles. The
whistles are a Clark C, and Generations
in Bb and (high) F - $19 worth in all.
In Real Audio format (28K stream):
http://www.elvenminstrel.com/tolkien/audio/ithilien.ram
In MP3 format (3.47 Meg) (uploading now, should be ready by about 1:45 am CT):
http://www.elvenminstrel.com/tolkien/audio/ithilien.mp3
In Tolkien's Middle-earth, Ithilien is a beautiful, garden-like strip of
forested land that belongs to the
kingdom of Gondor. It lies between the great river Anduin and the Mountains of
Shadow. The land of Ithilien should appear sometime in the third movie; Frodo
and Sam travel through it with their troublesome companion, Smeagol. A land of
great beauty, pools and streams, and a wide variety of lush green plants and
herbs, it languishes, nevertheless, under the threat of Sauron's dark realm of
Mordor, which borders it to the West.
Tech details for those interested: the whistles were recorded in a fairly dead
room with a tube mic (AKG C-12)
placed behind my left shoulder. Thus the slightly distant tone. It was
amplified with a Drawmer 1960 (tube mic pre with compressor), moderately
compressed. From there straight to hard disk and mixed in the digital domain.
--
David J. Finnamore
Nashville, TN, USA
http://www.elvenminstrel.com
--
I can't be an anti-intellectualist. I don't even know what it means.
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<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: raindog1970 on 2002-10-12 09:57 ]</font>
Beautiful tune !!
