Who would have thought…
I believe there’s also some evidence that the great French horn player and mysterious baseball pitching phenomenon Sidd Finch also recorded some impressive penny whistle tracks.
Best wishes,
Jerry
I have that CD.
I found it a little disappointing.
(:lol:)
Review Published: April 01, 2003
Cynic.
Best wishes,
Jerry
Was Sidd Finch the guy they wrote about in Sports Illustrated a few Aprils ago who studied pitching in Tibet?
Gambol can be reached at: 801.371.8686. A website is in the works.
The phone number for Gambol comes back to
Big Daddys CD Exchange
1774 N University Pkwy
Provo, UT 84604-1568
(801) 371-8686
And after 2 and a half years, they still don’t have that website finished.
Did no one click the little green guy at the bottom, or is everyone just really good at pretending? 
Ayup.
They don’t make them like George Plimpton anymore.
Best wishes,
Jerry
It’s much more fun to do it the hard way.
I also liked the links to other albums on further down the page. The one by Ruth and the Colettes features the strung-out whine of Evelyn (Lamb Chop) Lamuraglia on the violin.
I seem to remember a novel about a French Horn playing pitcher who studied in Tibet also. Did someone expand the Plimpton thing into a novel?
Check this:http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/siddfinch.html
Ah if only…
But I do remember some virtuoso jazz pennywhistle recorded in the 1980s by Billy Novick of Boston, whose main instrument was the clarinet. His renditions of Irish tunes were awful but the jazz numbers were brilliant and fun. It was called The New Pennywhistle Album, with guitar accompaniment by the incredible Guy Van Duser. Seems to be out of print; it’s not even listed on Billy’s website.
Here’s the actual article:
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/features/cover/news/2000/07/24/finch_flash/
This is a reoccurring gag… Stick around another six to eight months…It will be back!
Now we need to drag this thread back out of OT territory, with a connection between the Himalayas and whistles.
Here’s a true story: I made my first whistles in the 1980s when I was teaching in Bhutan, south of Tibet. Some of my students said they would teach me how they made whistles and they took me on a hike up the mountain behind the school to where the bamboo was the right diameter. It gets narrower as you climb up. They showed me how to cut a rectangular window with a blade at the bottom. The fipple was a wooden plug, filed flat on top. The finger holes were burned into the green bamboo with a red-hot nail-head. I still have three of those whistles.
Have you then listened to South African Kwela music and the pennywhistle legend Spokes Mashiyane? Check out for example: http://www.thephatplanet.com/music.ihtml?pid=1555&step=4
I just got to listen to that record and wow! It certainly is interesting. This guy seemed to have a distinct style at playing pennywhistle. He got his own fingerings and he played with the mouthpiece inside his left cheek. 
Also, there seem to be many other south african pennywhistlers…I don’t know about you, but for me this was big news! Wholly new whistle ground to explore!
Oh, just used the “search” option, and it seems you have talked about Spokes and Kwela a lot. How did I miss all this
Has anyone actually heard the recording, “The Pennywhistle Tapes” by John Coltrane? If so, what do you think about it???
And, do you know how I could order a copy?
No.
Best wishes,
Jerry