How do you E-flat?

Leel · Post by **Leel** » Wed Aug 18, 2004 3:28 pm

Hi All - I just encountered E-flat for the first time in a tune.

Is (are) there fingerings other than half-holing to get at a good E-flat?

talasiga · Post by **talasiga** » Wed Aug 18, 2004 4:09 pm

Leel wrote:..................
....... fingerings other than half-holing to get at a good E-flat?

Keep an F whistle at hand and cross finger the 7th.

(several edits. its my karma for being bad)

glauber · Post by **glauber** » Wed Aug 18, 2004 4:11 pm

Use the all-fingers-down fingering on an Eb whistle, then.

michael_coleman · Post by **michael_coleman** » Wed Aug 18, 2004 4:23 pm

get a flute with keys.

lixnaw · Post by **lixnaw** » Wed Aug 18, 2004 4:48 pm

i used to know a fella here in tralee, john curtin, this was about 19 years ago.
he only had one whistle, a C whistle, but he'd half hole everyting.
fair play to you john, over there in london town, i could never do it.

glauber · Post by **glauber** » Wed Aug 18, 2004 6:21 pm

michael_coleman wrote:get a flute with keys.

One key's enough!

BrassBlower · Post by **BrassBlower** » Wed Aug 18, 2004 7:41 pm

Get a rec****r and half-hole the upper pignose.

Zubivka · Post by **Zubivka** » Wed Aug 18, 2004 7:50 pm

How do I E-flat?

How do I De-flate?

How do I See flatulate?

Then, why Bb-other?

More seriously: I hardly ever eeflate except in second octave.
(And even this gave me a helluva time with this "La Bourée" by Jethro Tull start.)
Half-hole a lot 'til it's right. Why bother, btw: next day it's all wrong.
Then I decide I got the wrong whistle, and pick up a Eb or Bb tube.
When even this fails, I know I need a keyed instrument...

vomitbunny · Post by **vomitbunny** » Wed Aug 18, 2004 9:17 pm

seven hole whistle, half holing the seventh
whoops I thought we were talking about Db
maybe cross finger on a seven hole

Wombat · Post by **Wombat** » Wed Aug 18, 2004 11:46 pm

OK, that is the hardest. If you want to draw attention to the Eb then slide into the half hole until you are bang in tune, milking the effect for all it is worth. If you want to play it cleanly and in stark isolation, practice like mad. If you just want to play it wizzing past quickly, play E nat and glower at anybody who looks at you strangely.

amar · Post by **amar** » Thu Aug 19, 2004 3:47 am

Zubivka wrote:How do I E-flat?

How do I De-flate?

How do I See flatulate?----> haven't you ever ignited your farts?
Then, why Bb-other?

More seriously: I hardly ever eeflate except in second octave.
(And even this gave me a helluva time with this "La Bourée" by Jethro Tull start.)
Half-hole a lot 'til it's right. Why bother, btw: next day it's all wrong.
Then I decide I got the wrong whistle, and pick up a Eb or Bb tube.
When even this fails, I know I need a keyed instrument...

Leel · Post by **Leel** » Thu Aug 19, 2004 9:37 am

Wombat wrote:OK, that is the hardest. If you want to draw attention to the Eb then slide into the half hole until you are bang in tune, milking the effect for all it is worth. If you want to play it cleanly and in stark isolation, practice like mad. If you just want to play it wizzing past quickly, play E nat and glower at anybody who looks at you strangely.

OOOOOO...... I LIKE this one! The "milking the effect" is perfect for the tune in question.

I've been practicing the half-holing, and got it down pretty good now.

(I love the wizzing/glowering thing, too - just wouldn't work on this tune, and don't you think everyone would glower if you wizzed in public

)

BTW - It's a smashing slow aire credited to Steáfán Hannigan and buried deep in the infamous "as-of-now-unrecorded-section" of the LOW WHISTLE BOOK.

I think it's called: The Blue Remembered Hills

Check it out, It's "Haunting"!

LEE

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