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BillChin wrote: X:1 // I don't know

The X: line is the start-of-tune marker, and the number after it indicates which number tune in a multi-tune file it is. So the first tune would start with X: 1, then next with X: 2, etc.

Actually, I bought this whistle from him... and it showed up quickly and in great shape. Wonderful whistle. So I personally have no qualms about Mr. illuminatus.

Tuning slides are also rather nice to have if you want to attempt to play with other people.

I've recently been trying to do some research on the history of the tinwhistle. There doesn't seem to be a great deal of information out there, but both of these books did have some information: Instruments of the Middle Ages and Renaissance by David Munrow (Oxford University Press, 1976) Musical In...

Yeah... I'm pretty sure I played the piece you're thinking of in high school. Lots of unusual notation we had to figure out and such. But very moving. A little Googling turned up this: Symphony No. 1 (In Memoriam, Dresden, 1945).

...I'm having too much fun with the whistle right now. I have to say this is they key for me. I played trumpet for several years, and in the past year or so have attempted to pick up guitar bodhran, recorder, and whistle. But the whistle is the only one I've stuck with. It just... feels right... an...

Opening up My Docs, My Computer, Controll Pannel, and my Network Places is still horribly slow and takes more then five minutes to open after I double click. I have still not been able to get the search function to run at all. If you don't already do it regularly, you may want to try defragmenting ...

I spend a good deal of time with a medieval re-creation group , especially with dance (I'm the dancemaster for our local group). I also have a tendancy to pick up various hobbies, try them out for a few months, then get bored, and move on to something else. In the past year or so, this has included ...

What I would do in this situation is transpose the music to D, print out, then play it on my C whistle. I use the D fingerings, but the notes that come out of the whistle are in C. This would work the same for every other key. If I play the D sheet music on a Bb whistle, the notes come out in Bb. T...

Welcome to the whistling world! Among cheap whistles (the only ones I have experience with), original Clarkes and Shaws have about the airiest sound. Clarke Sweetones have a sound about halfway between those and the purer sound of Feadog/Generation whistles. I personally much prefer the mouthpiece o...

This question has been kind of touched on in a couple of recent topics, but not really answered, so I'll try to ask it a bit more specifically: How do you play in keys other than D and G? Say I have a piece in C. I can't play it on my D whistle without having to half-hole the F natural, and there's ...

What's this? Royalties for using a file format? Isn't that about like Dolby allowing noise reduction on cassette tapes unless for Professional Use then you have to pay....? I have never heard of that... How exactly is that set up? :-? Scott McCallister I believe the way it goes is you have to pay t...

If you don't mind getting down 'n' dirty with the command line, SoX can convert between pretty much any format and any other format. Really, it should be as easy as:

<tt>sox file.wav file.au</tt>