Andrea Corr's Tin Whistle
- Martin Milner
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I've been trying to identify the tin whistle Andrea Corr plays on stage.
I've only found one clear picture of her playing, and it looks to me like a Feadog, in Black, with a large gold label on it; the head is quite large, and though she probably has tiny teeny hands, the bore looks quite large & may be a C rather than a D.
Does anyone have a clearer notion of what she favours?
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I've only found one clear picture of her playing, and it looks to me like a Feadog, in Black, with a large gold label on it; the head is quite large, and though she probably has tiny teeny hands, the bore looks quite large & may be a C rather than a D.
Does anyone have a clearer notion of what she favours?
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Because it fits her dress...On 2001-11-01 07:34, Jens_Hoppe wrote:
...but as far as I know she plays a Waltons Little Black Whistle.
God knows why...
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I've been studying my picture, & it is a LBW, thanks! I've just discovered that Ms. Corr is only 5"1' tall, about 150 centimetres, so even a LBW would look big in her hands. Wonder if she has ever tried a Low D? In fact, checking the Whistle Shop, it's the same picture they used.
In that picture, she's showing good wrist alignment for StewySmoot to emulate.
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In that picture, she's showing good wrist alignment for StewySmoot to emulate.
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I watched some concert of theirs on HBO and she was playing a Feadog [post-edit: mouthpc was green, not black]. Had 2 or 3 in a little tube hanging from her mike stand. Maybe she switched because it was more hardy? I can't think of any other reason she would want to change to a (ugh) Feadog.
Prior to watching the programme, I was only familiar with about 4 or 5 songs of theirs from watching music videos on tv.
Interesting -- they played 2 or 3 sets of Irish trad tunes (I'm assuming they were trad: wasn't familiar with the tunes). Of course they played it more pop-rock than anything else.
I have absolutely no idea if they learnt the stuff specially for their shows, or if they actually used to play the trad stuff in their family.
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Prior to watching the programme, I was only familiar with about 4 or 5 songs of theirs from watching music videos on tv.
Interesting -- they played 2 or 3 sets of Irish trad tunes (I'm assuming they were trad: wasn't familiar with the tunes). Of course they played it more pop-rock than anything else.
I have absolutely no idea if they learnt the stuff specially for their shows, or if they actually used to play the trad stuff in their family.
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A friend of mine has some of their CDs. They do play a bit of trad (dunno how or when they learned it), but they mostly use Celtic touches to their rock-pop stuff. Overall, their music is enjoyable, if poppy, their harmony is tight (family harmony is hard to beat), and the diversity of instruments adds to their music. Plus the eye candy factor doesn't hurt. They do have a cool version of "Little Wing" (the old Jimi Hendrix song) with the Chieftains backing them up.
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You're not the only person to make this observation, but isn't it odd that you can't play along with the CD using a Generation Bb?On 2001-11-04 23:38, Eldarion wrote:
I saw Andrea Corr play backup for Celine Dion on a Generation Bb whistle for the song "My Heart will go on" on some TV thingy.
It's played in the key of E on the CD, which requires a low E, a soprano A or a B natural.
Perhaps it's a studio editing trick, or maybe even a studio editing error... or maybe it's an attempt to drive whistle players crazy!
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