Hiedee Hoedee Everybowdee
I am a feckless NEWBIE
So come on all you knowitalls
sock it to me ! sock it to me !
Sorry about the late confession
but after 35 years of piping
I cannot see my profession
So I guess I’ll settle for NEWBIE
It seems to be the fashion
Hiedee Hoedee Everybowdee
I am a feckless NEWBIE
So come on all you knowitalls
sock it to me ! sock it to me !
Well, if you want to play the feckless newbie, I’ll reverse roles the other direction and play the part of the knowitall and see if we can find your feck around here somewhere. 
When does one get to be an oldbie?
95 posts.
To all the young innocent readers who may be watching this forum,
this is a perfect good example of why it is not a good idea
to live too long in the city, drink too much alcohol and be bored to tears 
very hard to know what the feck is the real reason for this post,
but oh well,
party on dude!!
David
Folks who hang around here may be young - I’m not that sure about the innocent part.
The road never travelled
Is the longest
The task never started
Is the hardest
The poems I write
Are the worstest.
Well Davy Crockit,
Get you down to the Warracknabeal Library or whatever
and lookie up “teetotaller” …
A culture with no humour will never crack the ice.
There once was a wannabe newbie
Who had, it seems, way too much doobie.
His nick, Talasiga;
Of bollocks, a flinger,
Who should get back to playing his tubie.
By the way, the third and fourth lines rhyme more than y’all might guess; check out your Fijian orthography. 
“A noble spirit embiggins the smallest man.”
Jerimiah Springfield
I guess I’m an oldbie now.
Gezzus you dont drink? and you can still do posts like this, whats you smokin??
damn tal i would never admit to that 
I have never smoked in my life.
I am not your drinkin, smokin ozzie guy.
I have never shot at a kangaroo in my life.
Cross lingual rhyme
ain’t worth a dime
I’ll take that as a pat on the back.
Hey, I have just come across an unusual piece that requires a low D flat.
Anyone know of a way to half hole the low D or cross finger it?
The piece I am playing is for a D whistle. Its called AFP.
It’s really quite a hack (to use software jargon) but you can cover the end of the whistle with your pinkie finger to lower the bell note if you’re very careful. That might give you a decent D flat.
Silktone 7 hole half holing the 7th hole maybe?
Seems like I remember some kind of jazz played on whistle (kwela?) where they liked to use shaws and put thier mouth so far onto the wistle that it starts to cover the sound hole just a bit, allowing them to bend notes. I remember looking up some stuff one nite, even listening to some samples. It’s not too easy though. I can get the high d to bend maybe a half pitch, but with a sorta iffy tone. I can only get about a quarter pitch bend out of the DD shaw.
Hmmm. A combination irish whistle/slide whistle might be cool.
Have you tried this yourself? Is this what makes you vomit?