What is the alternative instrument to your favorite whistle?
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I know exactly where you are talking about, Hiro! I've visited Fort Worden before, but I had not heard about the cistern. The acoustic properties must be amazing! If I EVER have some time off to myself again, I plan to go and take my whistle and/or fife with me!Hiro Ringo wrote: I am itchy for visiting the great cistern at Fort Worden(about 70 miles northwest of Seatle) which gives 45 seconds natural reverb there, just to play my just intoned whistle.
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There's some CDs recorded in the cistern by Stuart Dempster(Didjeridu/Trombone).
http://www.newalbion.com/NA076/
9 trombonists who played there.
http://www.geocities.co.jp/Hollywood/86 ... layers.jpg
I recommend this CD the most highly than anything else,esp. if you have the gorgeous PA system.That cistern is actually where everybody can realize how Equal Temperament is evil.
http://www.newalbion.com/NA076/
9 trombonists who played there.
http://www.geocities.co.jp/Hollywood/86 ... layers.jpg
I recommend this CD the most highly than anything else,esp. if you have the gorgeous PA system.That cistern is actually where everybody can realize how Equal Temperament is evil.
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madfifer9 wrote:I know exactly where you are talking about, Hiro! I've visited Fort Worden before, but I had not heard about the cistern. The acoustic properties must be amazing! If I EVER have some time off to myself again, I plan to go and take my whistle and/or fife with me!Hiro Ringo wrote: I am itchy for visiting the great cistern at Fort Worden(about 70 miles northwest of Seatle) which gives 45 seconds natural reverb there, just to play my just intoned whistle.
Linda S.
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It's always a trip to play in really reverby (is that a word?) places. The craziest place I've been in was when I snuck into the Val de Grace Chapel in Paris...all I had was my voice but it was still pretty hair-raising.
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Well, I'd never thought of that.Zubivka wrote:
To go with didgeridoos, Aboehmrigenal music and the like, I guess Wombat will suggest the Boehmerang.
Of the listed instruments I think that each captures some of the things I like about whistles but not others. I'm a retired sax player but don't see them as substitute whistles—I'm about to write and record a piece for sax section and whistle section just to see what happens. (Relax folks, it won't be Irish.)
Concerning other melody instruments and Irish and Scottish music, I play concertina and find it consistently hits the spot for me. If I wanted something to give the whistle experience (and more), I'd play Uilleann pipes. I came very close to ordering a half set a few years ago but decided that, as someone who already played a dozen instruments, learning the pipes would be too much like a full time job. Same goes for fiddle.
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Having just come back from a fiddle workshop weekend, it has to be the fiddle.
I've always preferred the sound of the flute and fiddle to pretty much anything else for ITM, multiple flutes or fiddles add to the richness of the sound for me, but multiple squeezeboxes or bodhrans just make for a cacophony.
The fiddle beats the flute because I have some experience on fiddle and none on flute, being too cheap to buy a decent one and too lazy to develop the embouchure.
Still got a mountain to climb before I could call myself a fiddler though.
I've always preferred the sound of the flute and fiddle to pretty much anything else for ITM, multiple flutes or fiddles add to the richness of the sound for me, but multiple squeezeboxes or bodhrans just make for a cacophony.
The fiddle beats the flute because I have some experience on fiddle and none on flute, being too cheap to buy a decent one and too lazy to develop the embouchure.
Still got a mountain to climb before I could call myself a fiddler though.
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If you prefer the fagott, you should like the baroque recorder too.colomon wrote:Bassoon (definitely NOT Boehm)
Make sure to keep clear of the "renaissance" and "modern" recorders, too. With their powerful sound and big holes, they're heavily influenced by Boehm, just as our modern whistle, even if wooden... :roll:
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I don't play whistle, but I do play non-Boehm Trad flute (how many strikes against me, now?). As whistles are technically also termed "duct flutes" (and I call my flute a "transverse-mounted unfippled whistle"), I think I could safely be called a "pass" in this instance.
My other beast is a cittern. Since I tune it D'-G'-D-a-d, I would also call it non-Boehm.
Please don't beat me.
My other beast is a cittern. Since I tune it D'-G'-D-a-d, I would also call it non-Boehm.
Please don't beat me.