What instruments are most used to accompany the Whistle
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Sounds fine. Have you ever heard "At The Rackett's" self-titled first albumn? Lots of Sax, piano and flute, as well as fiddle and banjo. I don't think any whistle or bodhran, but very fun-none the less.On 2002-06-20 10:11, ChristianRo wrote:
I dream of writing a suite for piano, saxophone, bodhran & whistles someday. You guys think that would be a good idea?
Christian
Also in general, nobody had mentioned bouzouki or mandola
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Harpsichord comes to mind as a great potential trad instrument. I would love to hear a flute/whistle, violin, guitar and harpsichord recording. I'm still in the "trying to like it" phase where celtic piano accompaniment is concerned. But David Sandall of Puirt a Baroque does wonderful things with harpsichord on the albums, "Bach Meets Cape Breton" and "Return of the Wanderer." He's playing with fiddler David Greenberg and guitarist Terry McKenna. Sadly, no flute player on these recordings.
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I don't know about most used, but I've heard some stunning slow airs played w/ just whistle and harp. Jerry O'Sullivan plays O'Carolan's Farewell to Music on the Gentle Breeze compilation cd. Derek Bell and Paddy Moloney of the Chieftains have done some great pieces together, as well.
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I've generally played with piano accompaniment. If you've got a person with a good bounce and a strong harmonic sense, it works just fine. Unfortunately, my ex-bandmember didn't have the good bounce in her rhythm, but she did have a strong enough harmonic sense to make it worthwhile. Besides piano, she's a first-class clarinetist, and played Irish on clarinet well enough to impress Gerald Trimble, who we opened for in the 80's and who called her up to join him in her set. But when we tried (on several occasions) to do whistle/clarinet duets, the results were disastrous -- incompatible keys, she told me; too much transposition, she said. (I think she just didn't want to do it.) In retrospect, I should have pulled out a whistle in another key, but it simply didn't cross my mind at the time. But I'd say piano and whistle are a great combination. Guitars are more flexible, though (or maybe it's guitarists who are more flexible), and next time I'd team up with a guitar player.
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