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Chiff & Fipple Presents: Tinwhistle Haiku edited
by James Isaacs and Dale Wisely |
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101 Of Weaponry And Low D's (Diana Markoch) 102 Heavy metal bore. (Diana Markoch) 103 I play the thing (Diana Markoch) 104 My hands are so small I cannot reach the tone holes; Now what shall I do? (Peter) 105 An Irish wedding I take tinwhistles with me. Bride gives me money. (Ann Jones) 106 Air makes sweet tunes but the whistler's worst enemy is the dread hiccups (Emma Searle) 107 No income for the Great Tinwhistle Journalist. What am I doing??! (Dale Wisely) 108 At parties and such-- "I play tinwhistle," I say. "Not here!," they respond (Dale Wisely) 109
It's amazing how Terrible I can make A good whistle sound (Ryan Beavers)
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Breathy, off-key squeaks; both hands are in agony: first low-D whistle. (jack rabbit) 111
I play the whistle Divine music fills the air Then the CD stops (Ryan Beavers)
112 Fits in my pocket. Easier to carry than My big uilleann pipes. (Isaac Alderson) 113 Haunting low, dark tones Come from your big, wide, straight bore. Now I want a flute. (Isaac Alderson) 114 Worn, cold tarnished brass Green mouthpiece and tone so sweet Must be a Feadog (BOATFULL@aol.com) 115 Susato, how I Rack my brain in anguish,ah! Thumb-rest: yes or no? (Chet Scoville)
116 Puff, wheeze, pant, cough, gasp I have to give up either Smoking or my Shaw (airworks@unidial.com) 117 Hear the whistle sound Meditative state descends No need for Zoloft (Doug) 118 liquid air in motion squeezing out of skin-worn holes warm brass is alive (Patrick Gillard) 119 I sit in my car one more tune fogs the window late for work again -b benefield 120
play it carefully or hear the squeaks and noises of dying chickens (Robert Boothe) 121 Drive car play whistle, Other drivers not happy, Knees in pants worn out.
(Dan Diviney) Notice: Chiff & Fipple strongly discourages knee-driving. Limit your automotive whistling to scenic rest stops and the occasional long traffic light. 122 A misplaced Feadog a stumbled upon website now learning to play
Larry Madden lwmadden@bellatlantic.net 123 I play my Soodlum; Mother suspects mania from tunes' spritely sound. (Rachel Brewer) 124 old concept, but in a cool Space Age polymer: Name it "Susato." (Dale Wisely) 125 Michael Copeland and Pat O'Riordan in a fight. Who ya think would win? (Dale Wisely) 126 Laurence Nugent weds the lovely Joanie Madden. Think of the children! (Dale Wisely) 127 One day Dale conceives A modest whistle website.. The rest: History (Dale Wisely) 128 Never a whistle Wisely didn't like, except Generation D. (Dale Wisely) 129 So rich in content, His Chiff & Fipple website, People think he's nuts. (Dale Wisely) 130 Dozens of email daily from whistlers world wide. Who's REALLY nutty? (Dale Wisely) 131 Besides a few free whistles, he gets some cash from amazon.com (Dale Wisely) 132 Divide the cash by the hours spent at keyboard: 3 cents an hour. (Dale Wisely) 133
and defensively he claims he is not obsessed. But he is so wrong. (Dale Wisely)
134 Anxious whispers in The Wisely household: Planning An "Intervention." (Dale Wisely) 135 "Too much money on Whistles!!," Wisely family screams, "WE NEED GROCERIES!!" (Dale Wisely) 136 "What's this?," his wife asks, "yet another bill from your Internet vendors!?!" (Dale Wisely) 137 "Song of the Sea"?! "House of Musical Traditions"??! "Tayberry Music"?!! (Dale Wisely) 138 Burdened with remorse He tells his wife it will end Pretty soon, he thinks. (Dale Wisely) 139
Finches float free from Stereo cages: Mary Bergin plays a reel.
140 Spectral dancers rise; See them caper through the mist: Spillane haunts the air. (Chet Scoville )
141 Wild birds seem to know whistling empowers the soul with echoes of spring. Reid in Co. Bayfield, WI 142 A cut and a tap The roll tangles my fingers Must play it faster Rick Neal 143 A Susato whistle like A house made of straw -- You should never blow too hard. Richard Gross 144 Must win D whistle: Chiff and Fipple best website! (How shameless I am). Rodney Rigby 145 I long for the summer Whistle music fills the air For nothing is better Rosemary Kilpatrick 146 whistles are like dogs they can whine and they can trill but they don't need walks caitlin long
147 my friends hate my whistle and i hate their tubas and bells but we can make music caitlin long 148 Your Grandfather's music Through silver and tin is born Again and again Stephanie Weber 149 But it's got no keys Just six holes and a fipple Jigs from a tent stake Stephanie Weber 150 Jeff hollers "mach nicht!" Smash the Windows in stereo And the whippets all howl Stephanie Weber 151 Played Unfortunate Rake So many times wrong the parrot Can end it wrong too Stephanie Weber 152 A silver whistle for Valentines Day now all my Friends ask "Titanic?" Stephanie Weber 153 Bach B minor suite Appropriately edited Works on whistle too Stephanie Weber 154 Jazz time, five seven Sure I can handle that OK What? count syllables? Stephanie Weber 155 Silver light centered Fog off the pavement drips soft Whistling in the dark Stephanie Weber 156 Damn this jig is good Faster and faster leaping Beware untied laces Stephanie Weber 157 Faith and joy unbound Whistle's instant holiday Like a ferret's dance 158 Ebony, ivory, A bird's leg bone or tin Piping down the years Stephanie Weber 159 Commercial fragments Snatched on a street corner Whistle in the blanks Stephanie Weber
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