Fiddle playing with flat sets ( uilleann)

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When I wrote my post explaining to the neophtes of the violin world about flat bridges, I understood, of course, that veteran fiddlers would already know this. I also assumed that having a flattened bridge and strings flattened four half-steps down to Bb would make it more difficult to single out the notes. Karen Cook said that she didn't have a problem doing this, playing down to B, so I tried it myself. I'm using synthetic-core strings on my fiddle, and when I tuned down to Bb on my fiddle with a flattened bridge, I also didn't have any problems. So what I had surmised in theory is quite clearly not true.

BTW, Nano, I make a low C# flute. The only ones that I have made were for a musical, music by Phil Collins.
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Doug_Tipple wrote:BTW, Nano, I make a low C# flute. The only ones that I have made were for a musical, music by Phil Collins.
Name-dropper. :wink:

Thanks, but I'm really set for flutes. A whistle's what I'm after. :)
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I have a B and Bb whistles, BUT DID I BRING THEM? Of course not! :-)
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I hate it when that happens.
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fel bautista wrote:I have a B and Bb whistles, BUT DID I BRING THEM? Of course not! :-)
Well, there is always next month, or is that replaced by the SoCal Tionol?
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We have our meeting so we can get all the "to's and fro's " for people flying in; as well as the tionol.
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Cool, good luck with the whistles then, should you choose to use them.

:) Those meetings sound like a lot of fun...
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I've been playing mostly in C on a 3/4 flat set for a while and when I play my D set, gosh, it is so loud I almost can't stand it.
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