Is this a Tin Whistle?

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1

I was listening to some music from one of my favorite books/movie, the Lord of the Rings, and I clicked on this:

The Lay of Nimrodel:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFZbzKN4S78

Correct me if I’m wrong, but is that a Tin Whistle? :confused:

Thanks!

2

Correction: It’s a re(&*^$er!!! The recording you linked to on YouTube is by Broceliande, a self described early music group, led by Margret Davis who plays harp, flute (Boehm AFAIK) and recorder. She also plays in Avalon Rising. I’ve looked through YouTube for a live Broceliande performance but have not as yet found one except this.

But here she is in Avalon Rising playing her “whistle”.

Here’s their website. You can email and ask.

Feadoggie

3

Tin whistle at the start and tenor recorder later on, maybe?

Their website says they play both.

I was recently given a decent-quality recording of a pub session I was playing in. I was using recorders of various sizes, there were also whistle players there with both low and high D whistles (good ones). For some tunes (not ones I use as showpieces) I couldn’t tell which flutey sound was me.

4

It definitely sounds like a recorder. Some whistles sound like recorders, though.

5

That’s a recorder?
Wow, I coulda sworn it sounded like a whistle.
Just shows how magnificent recorders can be!

6

Almost certainly a recorder. The overall reedy tone, plus the quality of the high A, and the lack of register break between the C and D more or less give it away.

It shows how magnificent an effects chain and lots of reverb can be. :slight_smile:

7

I have no doubt that it’s a recorder.