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?
[ This Message was edited by: Martin Milner on 2001-11-01 07:26 ]
[ This Message was edited by: Martin Milner on 2001-11-01 10:54 ]
There are people out there (you know who you are!) who are more, er, into Andrea Corr and the whistles she plays than me, but as far as I know she plays a Waltons Little Black Whistle.
God knows why…
Cheers,
Jens
[ This Message was edited by: Jens_Hoppe on 2001-11-01 07:34 ]
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.
[ This Message was edited by: Martin Milner on 2001-11-01 10:53 ]
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.
[ This Message was edited by: tuaz on 2001-11-01 12:39 ]
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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Auckland concert October 14th - she only used one whistle and it was a bronze plated green plastic mouthpiece model. From 20 rows back it looked like a D but my attention wasn’t on the model label.
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. I think it was on “Pavarotti and Friends”. But thats only for that occassion only. Othertimes I think she plays a Little Black.
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.
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?
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!
The whistle used on the Titanic soundtrack is in key of A (alto). I think it may be that Andrea Corr didn’t have an A whistle thats why the song was sung with Bb whistle accompaniment. It should be plausable, since that means that Celion Dion only has to sing all the notes up a halfstep.
I do have my doubts that Ms. Corr was accompanying Ms. Dion. I think I saw the same TV thingy and it was a background singer that kinds resembed Ms. Corr (as I have been told I do, by the way). As someone has suggested, this person was certainly “whistle-syncing” with the Gen Bb.
I can see why AC would remove the label; the wretched thing keeps lifting at the edges and cries out to be peeled off like a scabbed knee.
I got an LBW at the weekend; a tad sharp in the bellnote, and most in the shop were all scratched, probably because the metal is so so soft when banging about with the Generations and Waltons in the shop bin. It plays very smoothly, with a nice transition between the octaves, though the assistant reckoned they’re dull in tone. Dead cheap though!
