how does Tommy Keane sound on his Wooff B set? That's something I'd like to hear...
Well, as Tommy Keane playing a flat set. He's trying to work a few things into his playing he saw another Wooff player do though
There was a solo CD planned for the set but I don't know how that progressed.
On the question of starting young, I've no doubt that it helps achieve a very high level, but the fact that one starts playing in their mid-20s or 30 or at 49, or whatever doesn't detract from the enjoyment of playing.
Maybe not, but I am teaching a few young ones who have started the whistle aged four, who have always been around music growing up. They have an instinctive understanding of the music late starters will never achieve, from playing along with a tune second time around and filling in the gaps with pure WIllie Clancy variations without realising it.
I know not all will have that but late starters will certainly not have that fluency. I can imagine starting at fifty or later will bring a lot of frustration if you're serious about it, Over the past twenty years or so I occasionally pick up a fiddle and that's certainly frustrating stuff even if I can knock a tune out of it.