Apparentley if you play the flute, you get 30 years of life experience from the dying race of the Ressikans. Or at least that’s what the exhibit said. $2000 dollars for a rare alien artifact that makes you wiser… Think of it, 30 years more experience in whistling! We’d be unstopable! The world would be ours for the picking… or blowing… whistling… whatever.
About three years ago in Chiff & Fipple I ran a letter from a subscriber who had visited a Star Trek convention. (Yes, he admitted to it) and had seen this whistleprop up close. At the time he concluded, undoubtedly correctly, that it was unplayable due to the hole configuration. It IS amazing, isn’t it, that they saw fit to build a prop rather than go down to the local music store and buy a whistle.
Dale
On 2001-07-22 14:16, DrGiggles wrote:
Personally, I think teaching everyone music-theory based on the well-tempered clavier is a big faux pas. Do you know how many times I’ve had to argue that a Bb is not the same as an A#? Fretless string players unite! Teach the world! >
Nor would they be the same on a pennywhistle in D, I might add.
Sarah
What I wonder is if we know the tune Pecard was or was not playing on this possibly unplayable flute?
And a Patrick Stewart aside, there is almost no authentic sea music in the remake of Moby Dick with Stewart as Ahab. I know because I got it by mistake while looking for the original that has some great A. Loyyd (sp?) shantying.
Do we know the tune Pecard was playing?
Or is some traditional tune yet to be written?
Nick
Do we know the tune Pecard was playing?
Or is some traditional tune yet to be written?
Nick
On 2001-07-13 15:25, TonyHiggins wrote:
I notice in the photo that the holes are equally spaced and sized. I don’t imagine it would be in tune. A nice job for a prop, though. The other props look pretty cool, too, like the phaser. I’d rather get one of those.
A phaser would come in handy for zapping bodhran players who get too carried away! 