What else are you playing?
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This board has an understandable predominance of Irish traditional music -- which I personally love, and I am enjoying reading all of the discussions. But, the word 'pure' has never been applied to me, and I am a bit of a musical tart, so what else are you guys playing? Anyone experimenting with C20/21 classical, anybody using the whistle as a chromatic instrument? What other folk/world genres are you into? I'd love to hear what else you are up to.
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I usually play anything Celtic... Irish, Scottish, Hebrides Islands, Brittany... whatever works on the whistle.
On my other instruments, I like Jazz and Classical.
On my other instruments, I like Jazz and Classical.
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I'm probably weird but lots of Handel works pretty well on whistle.
Anybody else ever play with "classical whistle?"
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Anybody else ever play with "classical whistle?"
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I am quite an omnivore both in food and music (sorry, Fatveg). Strangely, I usually play IrTrad on the guitar instead of the whistle, except for slow airs (I'm a relative whistle newbie). Besides trad, I like to play church praise songs, Christmas carols, and my all-time favorites, classic rock & roll instrumentals (like the Ventures). "Sleepwalk" is an AWESOME tune for the whistle!
A few days ago, I heard a tune on LiveIreland that really blurs the line between trad and classic rock instrumental. It is "The Boatman" by the Furies (Fureys?). Do any of you know where I can get/download a copy of this tune?
A few days ago, I heard a tune on LiveIreland that really blurs the line between trad and classic rock instrumental. It is "The Boatman" by the Furies (Fureys?). Do any of you know where I can get/download a copy of this tune?
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It's actually called, "The Lonesome Boatman" and was written by Finbar Furey. It was a bit of a party piece for him and one of his most popular tunes. He originally played on an Indian reed low A, which he sat on at some point. This, as legend had it, led Finbar & Bernard Overton to develop the low whistle, when Finbar comissioned the first Overton low whistle to replace his broken whistle. You can get a transcription of the tune on JC's Tunefinder, but it doesn't help much imho. Better to get an A and a recording and learn it that way.On 2002-05-29 17:49, BrassBlower wrote:
A few days ago, I heard a tune on LiveIreland that really blurs the line between trad and classic rock instrumental. It is "The Boatman" by the Furies (Fureys?). Do any of you know where I can get/download a copy of this tune?
/Bloomfield
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Hi Excessive Soylover:
I continue to perform as a classical guitarist at casuals as soloist and with flute player and I am still the head honcho (Performance Director, sounds silly) of a California historical folk music group. We do a variety of tunes from native California tribal, through Rancho period, minstrel, sea chantey and International (French, German, Russian, Italian, Chinese) songs from Gold Rush period mostly. no cowboy cause it came later.
Not lately, but have been deep in Brazilian music, where I accompany myself on fancy-pants chords and sing in Portuguese on bossa nova songs and play choro (Brazilian ragtime) music. I still play the songs especially when the weather warms up 'cause there is nothing like that style of guitar playing when you can do it (Joao Gilberto-style). Great language too for singing.
Musically yours,
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I continue to perform as a classical guitarist at casuals as soloist and with flute player and I am still the head honcho (Performance Director, sounds silly) of a California historical folk music group. We do a variety of tunes from native California tribal, through Rancho period, minstrel, sea chantey and International (French, German, Russian, Italian, Chinese) songs from Gold Rush period mostly. no cowboy cause it came later.
Not lately, but have been deep in Brazilian music, where I accompany myself on fancy-pants chords and sing in Portuguese on bossa nova songs and play choro (Brazilian ragtime) music. I still play the songs especially when the weather warms up 'cause there is nothing like that style of guitar playing when you can do it (Joao Gilberto-style). Great language too for singing.
Musically yours,
the fat meat-eater
Our motto: if it was good enough for the Son of God, I'll eat lamb too.
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I attend a weekly group that plays fiddle tunes. We do Irish but also lots of American trad. My folksong group does Canadian, American and British Isles, traditional and contemporary. I play a little whistle on some of those. Learned some swing guitar and Jazz piano last year, but haven't had much time for it this year. But I sing Jazz, kid's songs, Leonard Cohen, folk.... you name it.
If I was a blackbird, I'd whistle and sing...
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I'm new at this so there isn't much I can play, but I've found quite a few hymns in my Baptist Hymnal that I can manage...hymns I've grown up with. The great thing is, they have a list in the back of the "first lines" of the songs and then <b>the key</b> they are played in! So anything in the key of D is pretty good for me to try!
My favorite? Be Thou My Vision. One of the few I have memorized...mostly!
Kim
My favorite? Be Thou My Vision. One of the few I have memorized...mostly!
Kim
"Whistling women and crowing hens never come to no good end"