Is the pennywhistle your only instrument?
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- Martin Milner
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Also (in order of learning) violin, clarinet, guitar, mandolin, tenor banjo.
But.... I don't have a clarinet anymore, and haven't played for 20 years, but I'm sure the 3 years I spent on one in my teens helped a lot on starting the whistle.
I put tenor banjo, though I only play for myself for a bit of fun - my dad had a 50 year old Windsor, so I got it restored. I'm taking a 5 string windsor along to Hobgoblin tomorrow for the same treatment, so maybe I'll be able to try some scruggs style picking soon!
I DO have a violin, but it's a real cheapie just so I can scrape away every now & then to remind me how uncomfortable I was with it as a pre-teen.
One day, maybe, wooden flute, if I can scrape up the courage and the cash...
But.... I don't have a clarinet anymore, and haven't played for 20 years, but I'm sure the 3 years I spent on one in my teens helped a lot on starting the whistle.
I put tenor banjo, though I only play for myself for a bit of fun - my dad had a 50 year old Windsor, so I got it restored. I'm taking a 5 string windsor along to Hobgoblin tomorrow for the same treatment, so maybe I'll be able to try some scruggs style picking soon!
I DO have a violin, but it's a real cheapie just so I can scrape away every now & then to remind me how uncomfortable I was with it as a pre-teen.
One day, maybe, wooden flute, if I can scrape up the courage and the cash...
It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that schwing
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Other instruments
I also regularly play:
low whistles (Dixon and Goldie/Overton)
fretted and fretless electric basses
acoustic bass
congas, timbales and myriad other bangy things
Malachy bodhrans
bones
I occasionally play (not well):
mandolin
ukelele
I own (but cannot play):
guitar (Gibson 335 copy)
Highland bagpipes (suitable-for-burning: won them as a door prize)
Ian
low whistles (Dixon and Goldie/Overton)
fretted and fretless electric basses
acoustic bass
congas, timbales and myriad other bangy things
Malachy bodhrans
bones
I occasionally play (not well):
mandolin
ukelele
I own (but cannot play):
guitar (Gibson 335 copy)
Highland bagpipes (suitable-for-burning: won them as a door prize)
Ian
The best thing about Highland Pipes is that the players can't sing at you.
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- Tell us something.: I've been playing whistle for a very long time, but never seem to get any better than I was about 10 years ago. I'm okay with that. :)
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I played baritone saxophone for 7 years while in school: concert band (boring), marching band (heavy), and jazz band (my favorite). I no longer own a sax and haven't played one since I discovered whistles (about 5 years ago).
I also currently play the D melodeon which is starting to get more practice time than the whistle...I haven't decided if that's a good or bad thing.
-brett
I also currently play the D melodeon which is starting to get more practice time than the whistle...I haven't decided if that's a good or bad thing.
-brett
- ScottStewart
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Hey Bretton!
I wasn't going to post to this thread, but as another ex-Bari player, I just had to reply......I've still got mine(a Selmer with a low A key-I should sell it as I don't play anymore...but the sentimental attachment!!) and also marched, did concert band, but *especially* loved playing in the jazz band(fun for 2 reasons-1. was the only girl in the jazz band and 2. got to play louder than anyone else..come to think of it, those are probably the same two initial reasons that I took up the Uileann pipes).
Anyway-ain't whistle great after ALL those years of lugging (which really weren't fun considering that I was tall, skinny and a weakling) and neck pain?
OK, and I also play Irish and legit flute, clarinet and conduct(which I got a master's in and am doing as a minor in my doctoral Mus Ed program)
I wasn't going to post to this thread, but as another ex-Bari player, I just had to reply......I've still got mine(a Selmer with a low A key-I should sell it as I don't play anymore...but the sentimental attachment!!) and also marched, did concert band, but *especially* loved playing in the jazz band(fun for 2 reasons-1. was the only girl in the jazz band and 2. got to play louder than anyone else..come to think of it, those are probably the same two initial reasons that I took up the Uileann pipes).
Anyway-ain't whistle great after ALL those years of lugging (which really weren't fun considering that I was tall, skinny and a weakling) and neck pain?
OK, and I also play Irish and legit flute, clarinet and conduct(which I got a master's in and am doing as a minor in my doctoral Mus Ed program)
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Flutes: Boehm-system, Irish keyed and unkeyed, traverso, and fife
Recorders: sopranino, soprano, alto, tenor
Clarinet (very little)
Guitar (very little)
Harmonica (very little)
Keyboard (very insanely little)
And of course, many many whistles.
--James
Recorders: sopranino, soprano, alto, tenor
Clarinet (very little)
Guitar (very little)
Harmonica (very little)
Keyboard (very insanely little)
And of course, many many whistles.
--James
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