Eurovision whistle wins!

[hoopy mike]

Nice to see a whistle in the winning entry last night:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Et4nd8XFTgo
Looks like a Clarke Original, but I'm sure that can't be the case...

[Lars Larry Mór Mott]

You mean a Sweetone? Def. not a original with that mouthpiece..
Agree on the song though, pretty good for a ESC-song!

[MTGuru]

Nice to see a whistle in the winning entry last night:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Et4nd8XFTgo

Hey, I guessed right for once. I picked the winner.

Looks like a Clarke Original, but I'm sure that can't be the case...

It's a "faked" Sweetone C, and I posted about it earlier this year: viewtopic.php?p=1106063#p1106063

I liked Spain (Galician pipes) and Russia, both songs and performers that I might actually listen to. Of course, the Scots will be disappointed that Greece didn't win: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3k2MOJOkKg

I wonder which clan those guys belong to?

[Kypfer]

It's not a Clarke "original" ... pause the video at 0:59 and you can see the head on the tube quite clearly. It maybe a "Meg" or a "Sweetone".

** doubled with MTGuru **

[MTGuru]

Ireland placed last again. Time to bring back Dustin!

[hoopy mike]

Ireland placed last again. Time to bring back Dustin!

Definitely, although I can't understand what's not to like with the half-naked tattooed men.

[Paragon]

Damn it! Spoilers! I haven't seen the final in this part of the world yet.

Ruined my night now.

[hoopy mike]

Damn it! Spoilers! I haven't seen the final in this part of the world yet.

Ruined my night now.

There was a tiny clue in the subject heading...

[kokopelli]

Looks like a Clarke Original, but I'm sure that can't be the case...

It's a "faked" Sweetone C, and I posted about it earlier this year: viewtopic.php?p=1106063#p1106063

I was going to point out that the whistle continues even when the "whistler" is playing the drums. Plus it's not mic'ed at all.

Interesting use of whistle in pop music though. I generally tend to avoid this style of music so it's interesting to see such a traditional instrument used in a world that seems to consist almost entirely of heavily modified sampled or synthetic sounds. Of course, the whistle sound was also heavily modified.

[hans]

This may well promote whistle playing.
Instructions on playing the whistle part from Jacob Baagøe Thomsen from Copenhagen Drummers. Sadly he calls the whistle a 'flute', but then it is the same word in Danish I think.

Only Teardrops - Learn how to play the Flute (Denmark - Eurovision 2013)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoApp0Kioek

Original Danish page (including the video in English and a paragraph in English with instructions to download as pdf):
http://www.dr.dk/melodigrandprix/Artikl ... /flute.htm

[Lars Larry Mór Mott]

This may well promote whistle playing.
Instructions on playing the whistle part from Jacob Baagøe Thomsen from Copenhagen Drummers. Sadly he calls the whistle a 'flute', but then it is the same word in Danish I think.

It's indeed called the same, only Irish music savvy people call it 'tin whistle'

[German Whistler]

This may well promote whistle playing....

Hans, i found that video yesterday too, and thought the same, even was going to write something about it in a music blog

It is really a pitty, that he calls it a flute because in danish its "Fløjte", as in german "Flöte" but they do know, that its in english "Whistle" as the website, with the tutorial, shows, it says "Jacob Baagøe Thomsen from Copenhagen Drummers plays the penny whistle on stage"

anyway ... after looking at the video and at the fingering (What a bad tutorial) i was so confused by it,
even if i was able to play it by ear already and after trying ... anyway

on stage he had a clarke sweettone, or meg in C,
in the vidoe a clarke original in C,
but i first played it by ear on my d whistle and after the tutorial i did use my c whistle, and now i think the c whistle is right and so ...

whats right?
Mtguru when he said its a faked d whistle
or that video-tutorial?

by the way, in that video is a link to another one, where you can win that original whistle ....all you need to do is record your singing of "only teardrops" ... oh wouldnt i like to see mtguru singing ist?
who else would vote for that?

[hans]

the phrase is played on a C whistle, second octave:
b c# b a f#
- notes written in D whistle terminology,
and leaving out the grace notes and ornamentation.

[German Whistler]

thats what i belive, too, because when i play that on my clarke original C whistle, it sounds (to me) same as in the video
but i am wondering because mtguru was so sure about thats its a faked d

anyway i like the song and the little melody too, if that makes some people wnat to learn to play the penny whistle, even better, isnt it?

[Mr.Gumby]

This may well promote whistle playing.

Ofcoursse it won't, why would it? I don't think it's the first time a whistle was played in a Eurovision (winning) song (Emer Quinn's I am the Voice spring to mind and Secret Garden may well have used whistles as well when they won). It was a prop few people would have noticed much. You may as well suggest a huge upsurge in people walking around beating side drums. Or a huge rise in drinking problems because of the Greek song. It's not going to happen.