Can you identify these whistles?

slowair · Post by **slowair** » Mon Aug 09, 2004 10:31 pm

This weekend I found a CD called Celtic Mystique. Just one of those things you find near the register.

Loretto Reid is listed as the whislter, but that doesn't help any.

Just curious...can anyone identify the whistle(s) in the photo from inside the jewel case?

Mike

BoneQuint · Post by **BoneQuint** » Tue Aug 10, 2004 12:35 am

The one on the right is an O'Riordan. The "Traveler," black aluminum with brass fittings.

colomon · Post by **colomon** » Tue Aug 10, 2004 6:17 am

They're all O'Riordans. The middle one is an O'Riordan head on a Generation-style body, and the left one appears to be a lower O'Riordan Traveller, probably a Bb or an A. Odds are good these are Loretto's actual whistles -- she certainly played whistles that looked like these over the weekend.

(Incidentally, for those that keep track of this sort of thing, Loretto now has an Eb O'Riordan head / Generation-style body whistle, and I never saw her use her trustly old Generation Eb at Goderich this time.)

blackhawk · Post by **blackhawk** » Tue Aug 10, 2004 9:07 am

I have a great whistle CD by Loretto from a couple of years ago. Does this mean there's a new one available now?

colomon · Post by **colomon** » Tue Aug 10, 2004 10:41 am

What album do you have?. I've just checked her web page (http://www.reidtaheny.com) and Celtic Mystique is not one of their albums, just one she appeared on, if I'm reading it correctly.

They have four albums which are basically of tunes -- Golden Dawn, Celtic Mettle, From the Inside Out, and Celtic Flair. They're not whistle albums, per se -- she plays flute, accordion, and concertina too, and her husband Brian gets in some excellant solo string tracks. But each of them has some great whistle tracks.

They've also appeared on a bunch of the Celtic this and Celtic that albums from Canada. (Actually, Celtic Flair is one of these, too, but it's entirely their band, and it's tunes rather than slow airs or songs.) Plus Loretto had a big double-CD project called the Children of Lir, for which she composed a bunch of music and played whistles -- it got a Juno Award nomination for best children's album of the year last year.

KDMARTINKY · Post by **KDMARTINKY** » Tue Aug 10, 2004 11:02 am

Where did you find Celtic Mystique? Walmart by Chance?

slowair · Post by **slowair** » Tue Aug 10, 2004 1:51 pm

KDMARTINKY wrote:Where did you find Celtic Mystique? Walmart by Chance?

Thank you everyone for playing "Name That Whistle".

No prizes other than knowing you are right.

I picked up Celtic Mystique at Linens and Things at the Mall.

Caution though, this is baby making music.

Mike

blackhawk · Post by **blackhawk** » Wed Aug 11, 2004 8:43 am

colomon wrote:What album do you have?. .

Actually I think the one I have is Celtic Flair. I shouldn't have called it a whistle CD but there is some excellent whisting on it. Right now it's in storage, but I do think CF is the one I have. It has Eleanor Plunkett on it, a beautifully played whistle version.

colomon · Post by **colomon** » Wed Aug 11, 2004 9:05 am

Yeah, Celtic Flair is a great album.