Well, after the children had finished running around the hillside following Easter egg trails with the other local children, we dropped into our local Pub. Every Easter for 15 years they have CAMPED (and it’s freezing again here..) and enjoyed a low key Folk Festival.
Well…there were around 18 players and singers today - the usual fiddles, accordions, and assorted percussion, guitars, banjo…and tucked in the corner a diddy little brass D Gen whistle which might as well have been a mouse for the impact made. I should have mentioned there was also a TROMBONE and an AUTO SAX (the straight one??). Different, true.
Question: looking at some of the instruments it looked as if they had indeed seen action of many sorts…so which is the best loud, strongly made and not too expensive whistle of character to rise above the throng? Maybe they’ll let me join in one year…
I think the new Syn whistle would fit the purpose very well at $30, as would a Serpent “village smithy” at $45.
These are intermediately priced whistles; if you wish to go less, you might try Acorn or Clare. Oak is quite nice but takes breath control most new players don’t have.
Probably a soprano sax ala Kenny G (permit me a moment to get over the wave of nausea, OK, I’m better now). The alto is curved. Sounds like an interesting ensemble!
Don’t know - all I can say is it didn’t sound so high - pinched all the good whistle solos (grrr..spit..) and the instrument went down and then didn’t go up again at the end like a regular sax but just splayed a bit…and was a load quieter.
Need to learn how to do these cute quote boxes…maybe even get an avatar one day…or millions like Cranberry - maybe she’ll give me lessons..
Need to learn how to do these cute quote boxes…maybe even get an avatar one day…or millions like Cranberry - maybe she’ll give me lessons..
Two words: steal them. Visit myriads of message boards randomly till you find one you like, and make it yours. The person will never know. Mostly though, I just scan them or if they include me, I distort them severely.
I’m going to start an avatar collection, from now on all my avatars I retire go into my signature before they die.
Quotes..what I do is copy and paste words into the reply box, then highlight what you want to quote and click the quote button. There’s another way, but I don’t do it. I always manage to make everything sound much more complicate than it is. Sorry.
[quote="CranberryQuotes..what I do is copy and paste words into the reply box, then highlight what you want to quote and click the quote button. There’s another way, but I don’t do it. I always manage to make everything sound much more complicate than it is. Sorry.[/quote]
Another way to do the quotes is to simply click in the “Quote Box” which appears in the upper right corner in each message. Then you can just highlight and delete the parts that you don’t want to include.
Two words: steal them. Visit myriads of message boards randomly till you find one you like, and make it yours. The person will never know. Mostly though, I just scan them or if they include me, I distort them severely.