Diatonic Weapons - more fun and nonsense

[Daniel_Bingamon]

Last year we have the threat of WMD's Whistles of Mass Destruction.

To further pollute bandwidth with additional nonsense, I have come up with a new term.

First of all, to some, bring a Recorder to session is a akin to posseses WMD's - or WiMD's it can mean Wind Instrument of Mass Destruction.

To help the classification, we can now refer to Tin Whistles as Diatonic Weapons. I like that term, it sounds almost like Atomic.

Diatonic weapons are based on 6-hole theory. The most destructive being the smallest - The High-G.



I have a whistle and I'm not afraid to use it.

[Chiffed]

Couldja make a three-fippled high G? A true doomsday device.

[Congratulations]

Couldja make a three-fippled high G? A true doomsday device.

You tamper with forces you cannot understand.

[Daniel_Bingamon]

Exactly, you could really level the playing field with a High-G Tri-fipple diatonic device. A group of them playing together could be perceived as "Guided Whistles"

[Jack]

Weapons are cruel and evil.

[Walden]

Weapons are cruel and evil.

So is an ensemble of triple-fipple-high-G-whistles and gar klein recorders!

CAUTION: As a matter of safety, we do not advise the
wearing of spectacles with glass lenses to this concert.

[SteveShaw]

Without wishing to up the ante by antagonising you six-hole types I should like to nominate the ten-hole diatonic harmonica as the ultimate wind "instrument" of mass destruction. Over a billion have been made and many people would like to see them destroyed en masse.

Steve

[peeplj]

Without wishing to up the ante by antagonising you six-hole types I should like to nominate the ten-hole diatonic harmonica as the ultimate wind "instrument" of mass destruction. Over a billion have been made and many people would like to see them destroyed en masse.

Steve

A friend and coworker of mine who has played guitar for years and years asked his wife if he could order a tinwhistle.

She wasn't thrilled with the idea, so she "compromised" and bought him a harmonica.

Actually, he sounds pretty good on it already. Like any wind instrument, it is an avatar of either beauty or pain, depending on who is playing it.

--James

[SteveShaw]

Without wishing to up the ante by antagonising you six-hole types I should like to nominate the ten-hole diatonic harmonica as the ultimate wind "instrument" of mass destruction. Over a billion have been made and many people would like to see them destroyed en masse.

Steve

A friend and coworker of mine who has played guitar for years and years asked his wife if he could order a tinwhistle.

She wasn't thrilled with the idea, so she "compromised" and bought him a harmonica.

Actually, he sounds pretty good on it already. Like any wind instrument, it is an avatar of either beauty or pain, depending on who is playing it.

--James

More pain than beauty when someone grabs the one you're "playing" and rams it where the sun don't shine...

Steve

[Daniel_Bingamon]

Without wishing to up the ante by antagonising you six-hole types I should like to nominate the ten-hole diatonic harmonica as the ultimate wind "instrument" of mass destruction. Over a billion have been made and many people would like to see them destroyed en masse.

We'll have to call that a Harmonic Decidiatonic Sonic Disruptor.

The ultimate solution is to gather them up and send them to Mars.



BTW - The above graphic used to crash Macs for some reason, hopefully that has been resolved.

[Darwin]

Exactly, you could really level the playing field with a High-G Tri-fipple diatonic device.

You could probably level a large building.