Whistles From Santa

Wilsing · Post by **Wilsing** » Sat Dec 17, 2005 6:41 pm

I was just sitting here thinking, what whistle would the members of Chiff

and Fipple ask Santa to bring them as a gift this year?

Hmmm? What whistle would YOU ask Santa to bring you? Now lets

see... Were you naughty or nice? What whistle would YOU ask for???

James

A Stor Mo Chroi

Screeeech!!! · Post by **Screeeech!!!** » Sat Dec 17, 2005 7:31 pm

Sorry to tell you this, but Santa isn't real.

Honest.

Congratulations · Post by **Congratulations** » Sat Dec 17, 2005 7:53 pm

Well, since I'm getting (already have, actually) and Abell C/D/Eb set for Christmas, I think I'd ask for a low D. I don't own one, and I think it's about time. Perhaps an Overton? Copeland? I really have no idea where to begin. Perhaps I should start another thread called, "What low D would Congratulations like?"

Hmm...

ned o the hill · Post by **ned o the hill** » Sat Dec 17, 2005 8:03 pm

Thanks to some astute (though some would use a differing phonetic iteration of that to describe my playing

) bidding on eBay, Santa brought me a mint condition Burke Viper Pro.

As I told Mike in an FYI e-mail, the whistle's haunting tone sounds like a moaning bean sí. Feels like it's pounds lighter than my brass Howard and fingers like a dream. Can you tell I'm excited?

chas · Post by **chas** » Sat Dec 17, 2005 8:43 pm

Not a whistle, but Santa got me a von Huene A. Grenser copy Baroque flute. I think I'll have Santa wrap it up (it came a couple of months ago), although I'm not sure Santa will be wrapping my wife's serger, which came about 4 months ago.

Unseen122 · Post by **Unseen122** » Sat Dec 17, 2005 8:45 pm

Screeeech!!! wrote:Sorry to tell you this, but Santa isn't real.

Honest.

I got to agree with Screeeech!!! on this one. I myself happen to be Jewish, but if I was going to ask for a Whistle it would have to be a Lon Dubh or an Abell as I have always wanted to try a Lon Dubh and the Abell I once tryed was great.

canpiper · Post by **canpiper** » Sat Dec 17, 2005 9:19 pm

An Abell Low G...unless anyone thinks that one of Santa's elves might be able to figure out how to make an Abell low D! No? No...probably not. The low G then!

steggy · Post by **steggy** » Sun Dec 18, 2005 3:33 am

I have gone for whistles this xmas. i have received a set of Mr O'Brien's( Canada) handmade whistles, howver these have been intercepted by Mrs Steggy and hidden until the big day. i am itching to get my fingers on em and very excited.

i am also looking for a soprano overton d for my birthday but my dealer( god i'm weak) tells me that they are no longer being made. any second hand ones out there , i'll probably pick up a susato at some point too.

that said it was great to see spider stacey of the pogues laying the law down with a generation ( cheap and when they are right very cheerful indeed), must not forget our roots.

love for solstice and xmas , steggy

ShadowBG625 · Post by **ShadowBG625** » Sun Dec 18, 2005 6:44 am

Congratulations wrote:I think I'd ask for a low D. I don't own one, and I think it's about time.

Same here Congrats!

brewerpaul · Post by **brewerpaul** » Sun Dec 18, 2005 7:34 am

chas wrote:Not a whistle, but Santa got me a von Huene A. Grenser copy Baroque flute. I think I'll have Santa wrap it up (it came a couple of months ago), although I'm not sure Santa will be wrapping my wife's serger, which came about 4 months ago.

Ooh-- Von Huene makes wonderful stuff. I have one of their Rippert alto recorders. Is Loren still working there?

Do you plan to play Trad music on this, or just baroque? Actually, by his dates O'Carolan qualifies as a Baroque composer, I think...

chas · Post by **chas** » Sun Dec 18, 2005 9:22 am

brewerpaul wrote:
chas wrote:Not a whistle, but Santa got me a von Huene A. Grenser copy Baroque flute. I think I'll have Santa wrap it up (it came a couple of months ago), although I'm not sure Santa will be wrapping my wife's serger, which came about 4 months ago.
Ooh-- Von Huene makes wonderful stuff. I have one of their Rippert alto recorders. Is Loren still working there?

Do you plan to play Trad music on this, or just baroque? Actually, by his dates O'Carolan qualifies as a Baroque composer, I think...

Loren is still there; he helped broker this deal with one of his co-workers. The flute plays beautifully -- it's a pretty faithful facsimile, but has a couple of tweaks. One is a very slightly elliptical embouchure, the other is that the F# is slightly flattened in order to make the Fnat a little more in tune.

I'm playing almost exclusively O'Carolan on it. I worked on several Laments last night after seeing Helicon's 20th annual solstice concert. (Chris Norman, Ken Kolodner, and Robin Bullock, an absolutely amazing collection of musicians.) I picked up a tape that has Chris playing Squire Wood's Lamentation, so I got out the O'Carolan book. The other four laments on that page are all in Eflat or F. I'd been playing transposed versions of them, and THEY DON'T SOUND THE SAME TRANSPOSED!!! They sound much better in their native keys, plus it gets me practicing the flats and one also has accidentals.

It's a blast. I'm enjoying the one-key a lot more than any multi-key flutes, but that may really be the quality of the instrument rather than the mechanics of playing it or the appropriateness of it for the music.

whistlekin · Post by **whistlekin** » Sun Dec 18, 2005 12:13 pm

What you mean Santa Aint real!?!?! crazy folk round here.

I would go for a Burke Narrow Bore Aluminum D!!!...and a new garage door opener.

Merry Christmas to all!

-W

canpiper · Post by **canpiper** » Sun Dec 18, 2005 12:48 pm

Oh, Santa is real alright. You people just don't see him around much because he plays recorders!

anniemcu · Post by **anniemcu** » Sun Dec 18, 2005 12:54 pm

I have a twist on it... I got to play Santa a bit by doing the bidding on a Thin Weasel for a friend who dearly wanted it for Christmas, and I didn't have to use my money... her hubby is paying for it. I love it! (Of course, I might have loved it more if it was for me, heehee)... but hey... surrogate Santa is a good thing.

IDAwHOa · Post by **IDAwHOa** » Sun Dec 18, 2005 2:14 pm

I need Santa's help in convincing the person I am borrowing an O'Riordan set from to trade for it!

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