I've given in (new member)

Whistle
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On 2003-01-22 20:45, RosieCotton wrote:

I know allll about GAS! Kept it in check, but now I’ve discovered the joys of WHoA, and since it’s so much cheaper to appease than GAS, I think it’s possibly even more dangerous…

Tell me about it. Much too cheap - to the point that if I order anything from an online vendor I tend to throw another whistle on, too. Just ordered the Bill Ochs book/CD from the Whistle Shop - and added another few whistles, too.

The bag this time:

Tony Dixon High D
Generation D Brass
Generation D Nickel
Generation Eb Nickel
Generation Bb Nickel

This joins the Feadog, Walton’s C & D, Clarke original, Sweetone D, and Meg C I already have.

You know - a few for playing at home, a couple for at work, one for each car, maybe one or two to take on trips . . .

But I’m being firm with myself - no premium whistles until I can play the most difficult pieces in the Waltons/Soodlums #2 book to my own satisfaction.

[ This Message was edited by: DCrom on 2003-01-22 21:07 ]

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I, too, play guitar, bass, and mandolin. Yet, we all gravitated to the whistle…

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I confess to WHOA, GAS and…yes even BAD (banjo aquistion disorder)

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Another guitar player here. I did the GAS thing until I found my perfect guitar, a '69 Gibson. Of course, a little parlor guitar might be nice <EEEKKKK!>

I now play mostly Irish music on the guitar. But mostly I play whistles. They are indeed addictive.

Welcome to the club that has no 12-step program! You might as well just go to e-bay now and add “whistle” to your Favorite Search list. And open a paypal account if you don’t have one. You’ll need it soon. :slight_smile:

Tery

[ This Message was edited by: tkelly on 2003-01-23 01:44 ]

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WhOA and GAS of both kinds here. How bad? Well, let’s put it this way: whenever I entered a room in my old house, a guitar and a concertina had to leave. My solution: buy a bigger house of course. I’ve started with the furnishings first: a Martin 00028, my first Busman and Grinter and that new bouzouki I’d been promising myself for ages. Well, we have to get our priorities straight, don’t we?

Oh, and welcome Michael. And don’t be fooled by our superficial civility. We’re not nearly as polite and sane as we seem. Not to worry; after a few weeks here neither will you be. :wink:

[ This Message was edited by: Wombat on 2003-01-23 01:49 ]

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On 2003-01-22 16:03, MichaelG wrote:

After lurking the forum for a week or so, it seems there are some decent, interesting, and (reasonably) civil folk here.

Good to meet you, the name’s Walden.

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Welcome ashore, Michael.

GAS? Sounds to me like that them there geetar things is another wepnamastersturction.

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On 2003-01-22 18:02, MichaelG wrote:

WooHoo, another guitarist! We’re taking over! Yeah, baby!

Hmmm. So I’m not the first guitarist to make the leap to whistle? Nuts. I thought I was on to something.

Oooh, no. I played guitar for 5 years and in that time had about a dozen on and off, now down to just 3.

I played (and still play Mandolin) for a couple of years, and have 4 - two I play and two that are just ornaments.

Whistling 18 months or so, and I have, golly, at least 30! Fortunately most of mine are cheapies, so the whole lot came to less than one cheap guitar. Now I’ve settled down to playing the things more!

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Michael,
Welcome to the list, but I’m afraid you will have to change your name. There are entirely too many Michaels around here already. :wink: There is a ceili band around the west side of Cleveland with a rather fluid membership. I attended once to try to play along with them and I was the fifth Michael to be there of five males present. And I thought I was special.:frowning:
Michael
PS I play guitar too. At least I did until I broke my left wrist. The whistle is a good substitute but I still hope I’ll get back to the guitar some day.


[ This Message was edited by: burnsbyrne on 2003-01-23 07:54 ]

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On 2003-01-22 20:56, RosieCotton wrote:
Oh brother! I’ve heard it called a LOT of things! “Is that a ukelele?” “What’s that, a banjo?” “Is that a travel guitar or something?” Always amazes me how many people have no idea what it is!

I prefer to think of it as the offspring of an intimate relationship between a fiddle and a guitar. > :wink:

[ This Message was edited by: RosieCotton on 2003-01-22 20:57 ]

Rosie,

Would you be a LotR fan by any chance? Because you are the one person on the board who actually appears in the books!

I played violin as a boy and guitar as a young man, and the Mandolin is much more like playing a pluckin’ fiddle to me. Tuned like a fiddle, about the same size, plays the same tunes, fingering is almost identical etc. I started not long before the Captain Corelli film was shown in the UK, and that’s still my nickname from some colleagues.

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I’ve been playing guitar for nearly 18 years. Mostly heavy rock guitar, but lately my tastes are mellowing. I currently have a really old Ibanez Iceman and a Fender Stagemaster 7 string… I also fool around with bass guitar and am a decent vocalist when I put a little effort into it :stuck_out_tongue:

Been playing the whistle for a little over two weeks and have started building them as well. Something about the tone of the whistle just grabs ya don’t it? :laughing:

Welcome Michael… BTW, I’m a Michael too! :laughing:

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Hi Michael. Just a warning – stay away from flutes! They’re just as addictive as whistles, but lots more expensive. Very, very dangerous! Oh, who am I kidding? You’re here now – there’s little hope for you anyway. Besides, just one to see if you like it won’t hurt, will it??

(My wife has pretty much agreed to the Ormiston keyless now, and hardly ever mentions the German 6-key I got last year as a reason why I shouldn’t get another… Help!!)

Steven

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Well, I am very impressed! I had no idea that there were so many guitarists who also play the whistle! Whistle + guitar = a well rounded musician. :smiley:

My main guitar is a Gibson Les Paul but I also posess 3 Strats, a Danelectro DC59 “Pagey”, Seagul S6, a classical and I’m currently building a Telecaster for slide work. I design & build tube amps, too.

So, I play a electric Celtic rock style which includes whistle. My main gig is playing weekends at church but I’m trying to put together a band.

What are you people playing that lets you use whistle and guitar?

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Hi, Michael!

Cead mile failte from another guitarist. While you’re here, check this out:

http://tinwhistletunes.com/clipssnip

Check out the non-whistle section, and you will see that there is plenty of talent here on instruments other than the whistle! :smiley:

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Hi MichaelG, I’ve been here only a few days myself, I haven’t had to ask one question yet, I’ve learned enough to keep me busy for a while, by just reading others questions.

I’m also a guitar player/brand new whistler. I’m down to three guitars (I used to suffer from Gas), a '78 Strat, Yamaha 12 string, and an Ovation Custom Balladeer.

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Goodness–where to begin this morning?

Zubivka: I’ve loosely followed this rumble thing and confess that I’m not clear on all the issues. So while enlightenment eludes me, I’ll do my best to remain a Neutral Party and, in the best sociological manner, a Participant Observer.

DCrom: It’s nice, indeed, that whistles are cheap. It looks like I’ll be buying a lot more of my, ahem, guitar supplies (strings, picks, whistles) from Elderly.

burnsbyrne: I figured there’d be a lot of Michaels at a site for Irish music enthusiasts. At least our parents have good taste in names (and we have good taste in music).

Steven: My wife has a very nice open hole flute that neither of us can play. I suppose I may try to pick that up once I gain some proficiency with the whistle. I sure don’t need another instrumental interest right now!

There’s a nice collection of guitars here. I’ve got a couple of G&L electrics, a '98 S-500 (basically a Strat on steroids) and a '99 ASAT Classic (Tele) semi-hollow. My wife gave me a new Guild DV-52 acoustic as an engagement present back in 1996. I’ll share that story some other time.

Quite an eclectic group here, I’d say. Thanks for the warm welcome!

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Would you be a LotR fan by any chance? Because you are the one person on the board who actually appears in the books!

Yes, definitely a fan! And Sam’s my favorite character…hence the name!

I play a little fiddle, too, or try. And you’re right - mando is very close. Bowing is HARD, though. I really struggle with it.

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On 2003-01-23 10:26, RosieCotton wrote:

Would you be a LotR fan by any chance? Because you are the one person on the board who actually appears in the books!

Yes, definitely a fan! And Sam’s my favorite character…hence the name!

I play a little fiddle, too, or try. And you’re right - mando is very close. Bowing is HARD, though. I really struggle with it.

Haha, I thought so! In the internet “Which member of the Fellowship are you?” personality test, I came out as Sam. And we have a TelegramSam on the board, though I don’t know how hairy his feet are. So you’re in Samfriendly territory here.

I’m so rusty on the fiddle, I’m worse than the inside of Soineanta’s Clarke Sweetone. I have a really cheap one for when I feel like a light scraping, but that’s only about once a season.

I’m hoping to transfer my whistle tunes to the fiddle one day, when the power is out so I can’t watch TV, play PC games, or generally distract myself from the serious business of practising, but I know I’m going to be thinking “What’s this 4th string for?”

The problem I encountered with the Mandolin was that it didn’t really carry in a big session, so I might have been playing anything. Whistle at least I can hear myself playing!

Nice to welcome a fellow LotR and whistle fan to the board, check out all the old threads about the books and films!!

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MichaelG, Rosie Cotton, and DCrom,

Welcome aboard!

May you discover the heartsong that leaps from within and slaps reality in the face.

I’ve been singing and playing folkmusic in general for 35 years. I have a 1970 Goya 12 string thats seen me through 2 BS degrees, 2 careers, 2 wives, 2 kids, 2 step-daughter, 2 step sons (actually only one step son,but he was enough of a pain to be counted as 2).
I never was really interested in becoming a “Guitarist”, always just a picker and strummer to support the songs of folks. Perhaps that’s why I didn’t get Gas as bad as some. I have Epiphone 6 string that gets played once every couple of months. A cheap, unbranded nylon classical and a Framis 5 string folk banjo, both of which get little if any play.

When I moved down to the east coast (Baltimore-DC area) my voice deteriated rapidly, whistle has become my replacement melody instrument.

The whistle’s simplicity is deceptively addictive, something this easy and this much fun, and not a sin? This is good, so perhaps, it is a little habbit forming, but we’ve all been taught the value of maintaining good habbits, right? Whistling’s a good thing, so it’s like perpetuating good habits, not really an addiction. I have about 20, down from 40, withdrawal wasn’t that bad. Okay, yes its mostly a result of not counting megs that I buy by the dozen to give away… the first one’s free. Anyway it can’t be addictive; because, you don’t build up a tolerance. They actually last longer and are smoother as you continue to feed your addiction, er no I didn’t mean addiction .. or feed, a … hmm… how about … as you acquire a broader range of intruments to master the subtle variations in tone and key… yea thats it …let me make a note of that … need a range of instruments … tone and key … (got to remember that one for discussion with dearly beloved regarding the next delivery from my dealer … er I mean vendor.)

In truth this bit of tube and breath
give air to melodies of life:
dances, dirges,
laments, and lullabys
amoung the forms
that play across
the many memories,
ours and others.

T’is whistling,
to me,
this music,
the source,
it begins with each,
and connects to all.



Welcome to C&F and remember to ever …

Enjoy Your Music,

Lee Marsh

[ This Message was edited by: LeeMarsh on 2003-01-24 10:58 ]

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On 2003-01-23 10:41, Martin Milner wrote:

Haha, I thought so! In the internet “Which member of the Fellowship are you?” personality test, I came out as Sam.

I came out as Frodo! Let’s go trippin’, how 'bout it? :smiley: