Grey Larsen who is the music editor for the journal “Sing Out” (and no stranger to this board) has an article in the Winter 2002, Vol45 #4, p. 66; Titled: Teach-in: Irish Tin Whistle, The Cut.
The article is really straight forward and explained well enough even for a newbie to follow. The tune used to demonstrate the cut is The Cuckoo’s Nest, which is a sound track on his latest CD “The Green House.”
Paddy League has the next article in the above issue "Teach-In: Bodhran; Tension Free Playing.
The article also states the Grey will be releasing a book this(?)year titled, "Irish Flute and Tin Whistle, The Essential Guide, through Mel Bay.
Grey will there be a CD with the book?
Sing Out is on the net, but Grey’s article isn’t reproduced. So if anybody lives near a public library, check and see if they subscribe to the journal Sing Out. It is a excellent folk music journal with lots of tunes. I have read every issue since 1989 and it bugged me to no end when Grey’s name kept coming up on this board and couldn’t figure out were I had seen it before — Dah
Mark
PS.In the same issue, Tommy Sands has an original tune titled “Down By The Lagan Side.” It states that Tommy Sands has been working for peace in his native Northern Ireland all his life.
"“Tommys says “I wrote this song for the occassion of the opening of the new Waterfront Hall in Belfast to celebrate the musical traditions on both sides of the river Lagan.”” The song appears on his holiday album “To Shorten the Winter” Green Linnet #1212.
M.
“Everything flows and nothing abides; everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.” Heraclitus.
[ This Message was edited by: MarkB on 2002-01-07 18:06 ]
I had the oppotunity to meet and take a lesson with Grey when he was in Denver last summer. He is a very gifted teacher as well as a hell of a nice guy. He taught me more in an hour than I had learned in a month on my own.
For those who have Chris Smith’s Mel Bay book “Celtic Back-Up” with CD (a fantastic book IMHO), the dedication includes “Grey Larsen for great engineering and brilliant playing”. Also,Grey is identified as the flute player pictured in the cover photograph of a Seisiun seen through the window of a pub.
MarkB
Thanks for the inquiry/Broken fibula healed/competitive squash on hold for a while, but I look forward to golf soon.
Yes, I’ve used the last while to kick it up a notch on the whistle. Otter’s Holt & Out on the Ocean are my most recently learned tunes. I was practicing “Tom Bhetty’s Waltz” last night that fiddler Clare Renaud introduced, and “Lord Inchiquin/Waiting for the Federals” that Glenn Schultz on the box introduced, when I was last at your Seisiuns.
I expect to be at the Kildare Seisiun a week from tonight, and hopefully reasonably regularly thereafter. Sorry you won’t be there next week.
Can I review the magazine whistle article you referred to in another post(maybe using the inter-library system to my Lakeshore library if necessary) ? Thanks.
Yes you can request a photocopy of the article(s)through the county library system. Or email me privately with your address and I will photocopy the articles and mail them to you. I don’t see having the chance to get to the Kildare for guite a while.