What is the alternative instrument to your favorite whistle?

ScottStewart · Post by **ScottStewart** » Mon Jun 30, 2003 7:45 pm

Afuche, particularly ones made by the famous afucherion Madein T. Aiwan.

Hiro Ringo · Post by **Hiro Ringo** » Mon Jun 30, 2003 9:02 pm

Albatross wrote:Trombone...

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.

Someday.

Chuck_Clark · Post by **Chuck_Clark** » Mon Jun 30, 2003 9:21 pm

Mountain dulcimer

madfifer9 · Post by **madfifer9** » Mon Jun 30, 2003 10:28 pm

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.

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!

Linda S.
madfifer9

Jack · Post by **Jack** » Mon Jun 30, 2003 10:32 pm

Lately I've been cheating on the clarinet with the flute.

But please don't tell her.

Hiro Ringo · Post by **Hiro Ringo** » Mon Jun 30, 2003 10:49 pm

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.

allezlesbleus · Post by **allezlesbleus** » Mon Jun 30, 2003 10:50 pm

madfifer9 wrote:
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.
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!

Linda S.
madfifer9

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.

PC

Wombat · Post by **Wombat** » Mon Jun 30, 2003 11:02 pm

Zubivka wrote:
To go with didgeridoos, Aboehmrigenal music and the like, I guess Wombat will suggest the Boehmerang.

Well, I'd never thought of that.

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.

Zubivka · Post by **Zubivka** » Tue Jul 01, 2003 12:20 am

How could I miss the blunderophone?

Flyingcursor · Post by **Flyingcursor** » Tue Jul 01, 2003 5:33 am

I might learn the Synth Axe Drumitar but there's only one in existence.

How do you post a picture if it's on your local computer?

DaveG · Post by **DaveG** » Tue Jul 01, 2003 5:38 am

Irish bouzouki..

Martin Milner · Post by **Martin Milner** » Tue Jul 01, 2003 5:48 am

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.

colomon · Post by **colomon** » Tue Jul 01, 2003 6:40 am

Bassoon (definitely NOT Boehm)

Zubivka · Post by **Zubivka** » Tue Jul 01, 2003 11:13 am

colomon wrote:Bassoon (definitely NOT Boehm)

If you prefer the fagott, you should like the baroque recorder too.
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:

Post by **Nanohedron** » Tue Jul 01, 2003 11:25 am

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.