On 2003-01-21 04:32, rbm wrote:
well blackhawk off to california and stairway to heaven, urm… the broad specrtrum of blowing your own whistle!!
Hey, it’s a very versatile instrument! 
I also do the theme from Star Wars. In fact, it’s the oldest tune I do. You know, “a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away.”
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Hey, it’s a very versatile instrument! I also do the theme from Star Wars. In fact, it’s the oldest tune I do. You know, “a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away.”
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Veratile is the word,
I’ve worked out “take it back” by Pink Floyd for whistle and mandolin
R.
Pink Floyd on the whistle ?
Hmm… Tis an idea. Guess I’ll listen back to that Barbet Schroeder’s “More” soundtrack…
The Connaughtman’s Rambles… I won’t be happy until I can play Matt Molloy’s version at the speed he plays it. 
Trying to polish off Lillie Bulera and the White Cockade for our Celtic Night in March.
Also doing Be Thou My Vision, Ash Grove, Greenfields of America, Rose of Allendale, Road to the Isles, She Moved Through the Fair and the Galway Shawl…all with lyrics. The whistle really adds to these. Can’t quite convince the group to let me play my fiddle…maybe by next year. 
Gm
Dispute at the Crossroads (Dr Gilbert)/Devils of Dublin/Black Pat’s.
I’m trying to get up to speed to play along with the Lunasa track on Otherworld. Not there yet, but I can see the dust from their boots on the horizon.
I’m listening to a lot of Lunasa and trying to pick up some of my favourite fast tunes.
Paddy’s Green Shamrock Shore, Lakes of Ponchartrain, Hewlett, The Priest in His Boots (slide) and a couple others whose names I can’t remember.
Mike
For our show coming up, King of the Fairies, Kid on the Mountain, Kesh Jig.
For my own fun, Rakes of Mallow, Christy Barry’s set, 3 sea captains, Drowsy Maggie.
Also working on 3 or 4 from the Lunasa book.
Oh, and my girlfriend and I are working on a kind of cool duet…she is learning the left hand (Low parts) of the Linus and Lucy theme on the flute, and I am working on the right hand (Melody line) on the whistle.
Aodhan
On 2003-01-21 04:42, blackhawk wrote:
Hey, it’s a very versatile instrument! >
Yeah! A really fine dance fiddler around here, Steve Hickman, dragged along the Glen Echo Open Band through what he called “The Jedi Jig” (although, like “Chorus Jig,” it’s a reel) at a contra dance one night. The dancers loved it.
M
The Fire in the Hearth, Barbara Allen, The Contradiction, Tatter Jack, Drowsy Maggie (with the C part as notated by Ralph Sweet in his “Fifer’s Delight”), Toss the Feathers, The Otter’s Holt, the Home Ruler, the King of the Faeries–plus sightreading tunes every chance I get.
Best,
–James
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Right now I’m working on a group of tunes:
Kesh, Morrison’s, and Banish Misfortune (jigs); Jimmy Mo Mhile Stor (air); and Her Golden Hair Hanging Down Her Back and the Boys of Bluehill (hornpipes).
I was always entranced by Banish Misfortune but didn’t get around to learning til now; I’m working with a Cathall McConnell version. I asked my daughter the other day, “Isn’t that a strange grouping of notes throughout that tune and doesn’t it sound wierd?” She said no, it sounded great. I love that girl.
Philo
Right now I’m “guilty” of working more on vocal stuff-- currently trying to correct a rather flat part on Star of the County Down. And learning Fear a Bhata and Siuil a Run, slowly but surely.
Whistle-wise, Amhran Na Leabhar and Crested Hens are my priority and I’m trying to correct my tempo on Inisheer.
Hwyl,
Andrea ~*~
Hello Steve
The version I have of The Yellow Tinker doesn’t have any Fnats. I don’t know much about keys but this version is very playable on the whistle. Tommy Keane plays it on the pipes.
On 2003-01-21 10:17, dlambert wrote:
Hello SteveThe version I have of The Yellow Tinker doesn’t have any Fnats. I don’t know much about keys but this version is very playable on the whistle. Tommy Keane plays it on the pipes.
Are you sure? I don’t recall hearing him play it but I think we can fairly safely assume he plays something close to Tommy Reck’s version of it [as we all do].
Reck used the key the F’s in the first part as did JOBM [see The Piper’s Rock]. You can get away with playing DG ~G2 DF ~F2 there but you will at least have to bend the F a bit downward.
By the way DLambert I responded by PM to your question about MOB last week, did you receive?
On 2003-01-21 01:00, Easily_Deluded_Fool wrote:
For a laugh, compare the ABC midi version of “The Lonesome Boatman” to the mp3!Both available via a google search.
I like the painting, too, also available via a Google search.
My current top tune for daily polishing is
Culloden’s Harvest. This song (which I play as an aire) can be found Deante’s Ready for the Storm album.
I’m also working on Scarboro Faire. On SF after I get the main melody polished a bit, I’d like to try some of the descant/harmonies that I remember from the Simon and Garfunkle rendition of this lovely english folk song.
I’m also working on Ghostwood from Lothlorien’s MP3 album. Carol’s Dorian (by our own CSkinner) and Monaghan’s Jig.
The Merry Blacksmith, Swallowtail, and Banshee - reels.
Lark in the Morning, The Butterfly, Swallowtail, A Hundred Pipers - jigs.
Lochnagar, The Month of January, My Love is like a red red rose, Air for Linda (Neil Gatherer) - airs
Flowers of Edinburugh, The Liverpool, The Galway - hornpipes.
MarkB
Mooncoin, Contentment is Wealth, Coppers & Brass, Glen Allen, Jackie Coleman’s and Dublin Reel.
“Rolling in the Rye Grass” for my whistle class…
“Star of the County down” on my low D- also perfecting “Saddle the Pony” on the low D-
and teaching my boyfriend “Gander in the Pratie hole”
-Angela
They’re making me SING Danny Boy for our band’s St. Pat’s gig! HELP!!!