What's a cross between a whistle & a bagpipe?

mcfeeley · Post by **mcfeeley** » Thu Mar 11, 2004 11:10 am

Terry McGee playing the whistlebag!

http://www.mcgee-flutes.com/boxwood_2002.htm

Bloomfield · Post by **Bloomfield** » Thu Mar 11, 2004 11:24 am

http://jubileeinstruments.messianic-web ... histle.htm

Cayden · Post by **Cayden** » Thu Mar 11, 2004 1:08 pm

Didn't the bagwhistle thread have it's run within the last few weeks?

mcfeeley · Post by **mcfeeley** » Thu Mar 11, 2004 1:38 pm

Peter Laban wrote: Didn't the bagwhistle thread have it's run within the last few weeks?

Must have missed that one. Sorry.

GaryKelly · Post by **GaryKelly** » Thu Mar 11, 2004 1:39 pm

I guess it depends on which of the two is doing the nailing...

I know where my sympathies lie!

Bloomfield · Post by **Bloomfield** » Thu Mar 11, 2004 1:41 pm

Peter Laban wrote:

Didn't the bagwhistle thread have it's run within the last few weeks?

That is so funny! To think of tuning anything to a whistle!

Thanks for sharing that.

Who's the man? (am I showing my ignorance?)

BoneQuint · Post by **BoneQuint** » Thu Mar 11, 2004 2:33 pm

Showing my ignorance: why not tune to a whistle?

Bloomfield · Post by **Bloomfield** » Thu Mar 11, 2004 3:22 pm

... because whistles are proverbially out of tune. Even if you get one that can be played in tune, it is very easy to blow it out of tune.

And you know the old joke:

How do you get two whistlers to play in tune?

Shoot one.

BoneQuint · Post by **BoneQuint** » Thu Mar 11, 2004 3:29 pm

Ah, that makes a lot of sense. I wonder why they use pitch pipes then.

Bloomfield · Post by **Bloomfield** » Thu Mar 11, 2004 3:55 pm

BoneQuint wrote:... I wonder why they use pitch pipes then.

Different animal.

Zubivka · Post by **Zubivka** » Thu Mar 11, 2004 4:27 pm

Bloomfield wrote:... because whistles are proverbially out of tune. Even if you get one that can be played in tune, it is very easy to blow it out of tune.

Hmm... like democracy, proverbially the worst system if you only forget all other woodwinds.

Ok, I just mixed metaphors, now Bloomenheimer should get spanked for transposing an old joke originally told about fiddlers/alti/banji (1 banjo, 2 banjeez!)/bombardes/bagpipes/brasswinds... etc.

PS: How do you call two XXXXX ( <--- replace with your faved scapegoat instrument

) players playing in unisson?
A major 7th...

BoneQuint · Post by **BoneQuint** » Thu Mar 11, 2004 5:03 pm

That's right...duh, pitch pipes have some sort of reed, don't they, they aren't whistles.

All this stuff about "different notes" can be a bit confusing to a percussionist.

So does an orchestra often tune to an oboe because it has the most stable tuning?

Bloomfield · Post by **Bloomfield** » Thu Mar 11, 2004 5:20 pm

No. Because it has the brightest sound and can be hear best.

Some say, btw, that the tradition of tuning to the oboe is partially responsible for the rise in "concert" pitch in the last 200 years from about 405 MHz to 440 MHz: the oboes like tuning a little sharp: makes them brighter and prettiers. The fiddles, of course, don't care or like tuning sharp, too, and the brass is left wringing their hands.

GaryKelly · Post by **GaryKelly** » Fri Mar 12, 2004 2:07 am

Bloomfield wrote: Some say, btw, that the tradition of tuning to the oboe is partially responsible for the rise in "concert" pitch in the last 200 years from about 405 MHz to 440 MHz:

So *that's* why all our TVs go on the fritz when that blimmin' oboe-ist down the road starts up!!

They're playing in the UHF band!

Tony · Post by **Tony** » Fri Mar 12, 2004 6:55 am

After warming up, the oboe tunes to the piano first.