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... does make it harder to play, and often so much harder that it diminishes the value of the ... one. It may make D# easier to play, but in Irish Traditional Music, Eb occurs very rarely, ... as a slight or insult at all. It is just the obvious question. And there were suggestions of ...

So when someone asks "why play a whistle?" (which is clearly very well suited to ... that isn't necessarily intended as a slight or insult at all. It is just the obvious question. And there were suggestions of other whistle-like instruments that would work ...

... do become standard, and are not standard for Irish whistles. I don't think anyone has tried to ... the context of ITM, unless stated otherwise. So when someone asks "why play a whistle?" ... as a slight or insult at all. It is just the obvious question. And there were suggestions of ...

New whistle printed. Tuning slide works great!

Made a short video about it, in which I purposefully break one of the old style whistles. I hope it's obvious in the video that it's not *that* easy to break them, but I do believe the brass slide is a much better solution.

https://youtu.be/nRA2P8t_qQc

... of tuning, only occasionally admitting to the influence of bore profile and other design aspects. But if you think about it, it is very obvious that our own manipulation of the air reed has very dramatic influence on tuning and harmonics. For example, an accomplished flute player can ...

... of English flutes: a conical bore, Siccama style flute from Hawkes and Son, and a cylindrical bore Rudall Carte Radcliffe flute. Note that the overall ... player, and the natural convexity of the lips themselves, it will be obvious that an edge concave towards the labial aperture, is better fitted ...

... we reflect for a moment on the fusiform aperture between the lips of the player, and the natural convexity of the lips themselves, it will be obvious that an edge concave towards the labial aperture, is better fitted to be intermediary between the excursions of the air-reed than a straight ...

... to the real point. If you’re game for extending its discussion, I’m also intrigued by the step some keyboardists are taking beyond ceili-type piano ... entry through an embedded performance sequence, again with Fergal.) The obvious question about whether piano accompaniment is currently gaining ...

... used in tutorials or written sheet music, past or present, is not so much a reference to an articulation on a wind instrument, but rather a ... These are the building blocks of human language and hence serve as obvious reference points for describing and distinguishing among subtly different ...

... Decades later when I started learning to play Irish music, this early training as a child kind ... my natural tendency was to try to get the sounds I wanted using the above techniques, which ... Tonguing does not occur on Uilleann pipes, for obvious reasons, so pipers have, out of necessity, ...

... such syllables and performance on a bellows-blown bagpipe becomes more obvious in a performance such as the one here . The expression is carried ... of the airflow with no ornamentation beyond a few cadential trills and some finger vibrato. (There are links to different video demos in the blog.) ...

... blown directly by mouth. I think this is somewhere between misleading and incorrect, depending ... Tonguing does not occur on Uilleann pipes, for obvious reasons, so pipers have, out of necessity, ... pipes. Prior to their advent, traditional Irish dance tunes were played on other wind instruments, ...

... begun dabbling in the whistles, playing with some cheap high ds as I wait for my Mk Kelpie to ... I have a second hand familiarity with celtic / irish music in general but I'd like to explore and ... me a complete noob, so any pointers for some obvious household names, albums, improv recordings ...

This is a very interesting topic, and I see that some whistle makers/designers have attempted a few things and found some obvious big "simply won't work" ideas or some variations that might help. After playing ...

Original, Folk, Boho, Aurora... are these just the same hole size/spacing and fipples in different coloured plastic or on different coloured barrels? It's really not obvious what the difference between these whistles is.