Day 1.
Oh my she’s my new toy… and I love her so much. Long, smooth, creamy and mellow… expensive too! After some coaxing, I can get a couple of notes out her. But… are a humans fingers physically able to stretch so far? Is this an intstrument for mutant freaks of nature?
Day 2.
(Morning)
Wow… I can get most the notes, with a bit of work and a LOT of squeaking and missing on the low notes. But I can play something that is vaguely recognisable as South Wind. Perhaps if I incorperate some finger gymnastics into my daily routine… or perhaps plastic surgery on the lower ring finger… (midday)
Was that Amazing Grace?
And welcome to C&F, centre of the whistle world, molten core of all that’s hot in whistle playing, the jam in the middle of the whistler’s doughnut … good to have you here!
your hands represent your body aswell. a bad back will trouble playing a low D. if you’re not sure it’s your back, go and see an osteopath.
if not, stretch your body daly and your hands,like everything else, will improve along.
it’s also a mind thing, play with a relaxed mind.
i heard about a 13 year old girl, playing a burke low D pro in to weeks!!
Hullo! Sorry it took me a while to reply… hotmail has been dumping all reply notifications into my junkmail folder.
To answer.. aye.. I’m using the pipers grip and I have small goblin hands. Trying to relax.. I seem to be able to play better early in the morning for some reason. And yup thats me in the picture… all dressed up in goblin garb. I don’t always look like that though… sometimes I look like this… http://users.bigpond.net.au/webtribe/mambray2.jpg but looking like a goblin is way more fun.
Low D is getting easier, playing it for a bit each day, can get a few slow tunes out of it like South Wind and Bonnie Doon etc, but reels and jigs just aint happenin’ yet! I still love her though!!!
Nim’ohtar Elandili 