Hey there..
has anyone here tried playing canon with the d whistle? do u think it’s possible or is the range very limited? Please comment on this.. Thanks
For a moment I thought there was another camera for sale
Which Canon?
Pachelbel’s ?
It should mostly work…maybe a low B now and then you’d have to move up an octave or replace with a different note.
-Brett
I would think that the range would be limited, seeing that all the holes in the whistle would allow the expanding gases from the charge to escape and the thin walls would have a tendency to explode . . . 
I haven’t played canon with a D, but I have played mumbley-peg with a high G. The smaller bore makes it easy to penetrate the ground.
real helpful lot aint we
I’ve played it before, there’s a good recording by a fiddle player (who’s name escapes me at the moment) who plays it wonderfully and turns it into a reel at some points… very interesting composition she came up with.
Seems that there are several versions on YouTube.
Canon in D
Yep - Big whistle Canon
LOL! So, Tony, how does it play? Must take awhile to adjust to the embouchure requirements.
To our esteemed doubleg’s question, it does cover quite a range, so it would have to be adapted. Also, part of the interesting composition of the piece is the counterpoint between the different part, which the whistle won’t capture.
I’m gonna work on editing a whistle version of it. Dangit, I managed to adapt Purcell to the whistle, why not Paco Bell? We’re practically relatives!
Mark Bell
Big Whistle Canon Characteristics:
Playability: Correct Pitch + Yaw difficult to adjust and hold.
Range: Up to 3 Miles
Handling: Heavy
Tone: A Blast, Loud and Harsh
Back Pressure: Massive
Workmanship and Finish: Solid
Breath Requiremants: Better use a compressor.
Rob Paravonian hates Pachebel’s Canon
I’ve played it with 3 D flutes and with flute & guitar and it was very nice. If I remember correctly, the guitar part was arranged so it would cover the interesting parts for the second & third players. It’s been done nicely with hammered dulcimer & guitar also. Without all three parts covered it’s like singing a round solo.
I believe there is a link version somewhere on this site to a version that has been arranged so it doesn’t go below D.
Eileen Ivers is the one I was thinking of.
The Pachelbel works perfectly well with three D’s. Even better with three good low D’s with a guitar playing the ground.
Hmmm… and who ever said you couldn’t play the 1812 Overture on a whistle?
Is that 150 mm or 177??
An bhfuil reigimint airtiléire an FCA i gConndae Ciarraí? Díle m’anam!
On a more serious note, I would welcome a discussion of the concept of “canon” as applied to a beautiful woman by those of the French persuasion.
I had always assumed that the expression “c’est un canon!”, spoken in a “nudge-nudge, you-know-what-I-mean?” tone of voice, was intended to summon up all sorts of phallo-ballistic mental associations. But latterly a French colleague - who markets himself as a bit of a lad - claimed nevertheless that “c’est un canon” is more innocent, and simply implies that the lady (if such she be) is the incarnation of an aristotelian, or even platonic, canon of beauty.
So which interpretation of the gynaecoaesthetic concept of canon is valid?
Discuss on no more than two sides of the page.
To Roger: Comhluadar Éadaí Saor?
To Key-of-D: Canon in the Key of DDDD.
Guess if you took a measuring tape into a
church and measured the largest organ pipe,
it would give you an approximation.
A weapon of this nature was used to destroy
the walls of Jerico!
Yep. Strange Kerrymen… Yep.
Don’t go to church anymore, and I’ve yet to go to one that had a pipe organ…
Anyways…