Jubilee Low D "Practice" Whistle

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Howdy, I’m a fairly new whistler (about 9 months), I’ve posted a few things here, but this is the first evidence that I actually play the blasted things. I’ve got several high D whistles (my favorite right now is the tweaked Shaw, although I re-tweaked it slightly), and a few Cs and other miscellaneous keys.

A month ago or so, since it was a mere $18, I decided to give one of Daniel Bingamon’s Jubilee “Practice” low D whistles a try. Since then I’ve spent a total of 3 hours tops with it, but since someone asked for sound samples, I thought I’d post something at least. I’m more into the dancing-skirling sound of high whistles, but I’m always ready to play with a new toy.

The whistle does take a LOT of air, as someone mentioned. Play a Whitecap after this thing, and it feels like you’re holding your breath! I’ll probably try thinning the airway a bit to see what happens. But here’s what the unaltered thing sound like in my hands (and lips). I recorded it with a decent mic (an AKG C2000S) in a dry room, 2 to 3 feet away.

I don’t play many “slow airs,” but the ballad “Lady Franklin’s Lament” sounded pretty nice to me in practice. It has a longish C-Natural (fingered 0xx 000), which sounds pretty in-tune, but a little “strained” (which seems to be usual with a cross-fingered C-natural.) The air requirements caused some re-arrangement of the phrasing, excuse the gasping. The second tune is the “Huntsmen’s Chorus,” an old tune that’s a bit more sprightly.

I played with my fingertips, the reach is pretty easy. But my thumbs feel slightly cramped from supporting the whistle (holding it too tight, I guess). I think it’d be a lot easier to hold if I covered the lower hole (stabilizing the whistle with my pinkie) when playing A or above, but I’m not used to that. I tried it a little though, and it sounded fine that way.

I hope this helps somone out a little bit. I think it has a pretty nice sound, with a bit of air, although it’s a little plasticky sounding. But hey, it’s only $18, just buy one and try it yourself!

http://www.tohu-bohu.com/LadyFranklin.mp3
http://www.tohu-bohu.com/Huntsmen.mp3

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I had the same idea you had. Here is a brief test clip I made this morning. Just 15 sec or so. I can’t finish this morning because I have an errand. I cleaned it up and added just a touch of echo for a stairwell effect. I used audacity. (which I just downloaded this morning, and it is very cool).
http://us.f2.yahoofs.com/bc/401bc885_251f/bc/My+Documents/lowd.mp3?bfoy8GABTWr.T9n4
Ps. Ok, I cleaned it up a lot.
This is the same 18 dollar whistle. Got it two days ago. I’m new as well. I started a week or so befor Christmas. I used to play recorder…geez I havn’t even picked on up in a month now…
PPS. Cheapo staples mic. Got to pick up something better today.

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Ps. This whistle sounds a lot like a hoot owl befor you clean up the sound, accourding to my gf…
I couldn’t help but agree with her a little…I have been hooting up the house for two days…hoot owls been flying in and roosting on my roof. Aparently I sound like one in heat…
Oh well, those that can’t do…cheat.

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And one more befor I run to Radio Shack to find a somewhat better mic.
http://us.f2.yahoofs.com/bc/401bc885_251f/bc/My+Documents/scataglen2.mp3?bfY09GAB7GJcJrAV]
Ps. I just uploaded this to my yahoo briefcase. I hear people asking for places to post mp3s to. You can set your briefcase, or just single folders within, to allow all public access, so everyone can listen just by clicking on the link. I wasn’t sure you could do this until this morning.

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I get this error message while trying to load your clip:

Forbidden
You do not have permission to get the requested URL from this server.

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Huh. I’m working on that right now. I thought I set it up to share with everyone, whether they have an account or not, or are signed in or not.
Dang. I had problems with this befor sharing photos. Lemme work on it a bit.

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Now I can’t even get to there!
Ok, try this now. Three very short text clips I made yesterday.
http://f2.pg.briefcase.yahoo.com/bc/kevin38230/lst?.dir=/My+Documents&.view=l
Ps. Can you point me to some sight where I can hear some bones? I was looking that up last week. Plenty of pics, but no sounds.

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One more time. It worked yesterday, but now it doesn’t want to.
http://us.f2.yahoofs.com/bc/401bc885_251f/bc/My+Documents/lowd.mp3?bfWySHABGuI0T9n4

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The second link you posted took me to a “briefcase,” but it said there were no files there. The third (last) one gave a network error.

You can hear some short bones clips on my “gallery” page:

http://www.tohu-bohu.com/bones/gallery/

Click on the picture of each pair to hear what it sounds like (I’m playing one-handed in the clips, of course.) I’ll probably post something later playing with a band.

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Yeah, I pointed to one of my yahoo briefcases. Funny, it worked when I first did it no problem. Do you have a yahoo account? I’m thinking it might not let people on without an account. There are three test files in there. I’m still playing with microphones trying to find something acceptable.
I’m having a little better luck now. I had a lot of interferance and the mic was way out of adjustment by default. At least I can get a decent enough recording to sort of clean up now. I’ve played around with some recordings I’ve found here and there. I took some that were well played but the sound was terrible, and cleaned them up into a very acceptable recording.
Thinking about trying another audio program though. There are 2 or 3 freeware apps out there.

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Hey BoneQuint! Nice playing & recording. What kind of recorder/pre-amp do you use other than the AKG mic? You get a good, fat signal with it.

Hey VomitBunny! I couldn’t get the links to work either, but I guess you already know about that. Looking forward to hearing your stuff, though!

Aldon :smiley:

edited to add:
p.s. I don’t think Yahoo briefcase will allow you to post mp3’s anymore. I tried to send a tune to Tony for Tinwhistle tunes, but it wouldn’t work. When I sent the link to myself it said that I had sent myself a photo! :astonished:

p.p.s. Vomitbunny, you can get 15mb of space for free at nowhereradio.com to post your mp3s. You should check them out.

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Wow! Thats what bones sound like! Sounds a lot like a snare solo. One handed too. Cool.
Ok, I think what the problem is : I don’t have the premium yahoo service, so if you don’t have a yahoo profile and are signed in, you can’t access the files. Don’t hold me to that.

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Thanks. Seems like I’ve heard of them befor somewheres.
Like, I think they were offered on a version of morphix maybe? (a small distribution of linux made for graphic and audio people, boots and fits off of one cd) Don’t hold me to that either.
p.p.p.s
Wonder what this guys good low d’s sound like. I feel…I…feel…the…Whoa…it’s…
I’ll probably order one befor I go to bed tonight.
Hey they make one with a big reach but it has a key for the low hole. Not even expensive.

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Ok, I have an account with them. Now what do i do? I don’t see anything about uploading tunes and stuff.

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I remember having a bit of trouble navigating at first, too. It does take some getting used to. Here’s how you do it:


Once you log in, click on the words “Artist Administration” in the top right corner (just above the search field).

In Artist Admin click on “Album Manager.” From there you can upload to either “singles” or “album.”

In order to see the song once you’ve uploaded it:

– Go to your Nowhere home page and click on “discography.”

– Click on wherever you uploaded the song to (album or singles) and it should show up.

Hope that helps!
Aldon

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Thanks! It was recorded with a PreSonus](http://www.presonus.com/html/products/firestation.html%22%3EPreSonus) Firestation, which has two tube mic preamps (I only used one mic.) I didn’t use any effects or processing, to give the most accurate idea of what the whistle would sound like “live.”

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Hmm. Im afraid I run into a page saying they don’t take any new memberts to upload right now. I did manage to get a dang dern stupid slow editing tripod page though. Man, I need to go back and remember a little html. That big note song book editor crap is slow.
http://vomitbunny.tripod.com/index.html
Ps. Very nice job playing!
ps.ps. I went ahead and ordered a regular copper low d with the 6th hole key. Man! That’s the first whistle I’ve ordered in almost three weeks!
Look around the guy’s websight. He’s got a bass whistle on there now, not ready for customers yet, but soon. I’m curious about the high whistles too. Can’t seem to find anyone to give any kind of review of them. Oh well, I suppose in three weeks, when I havn’t ordered a whistle in three weeks and the whoa comes back on me…