My God! It's HUGE!!!

Whistle
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Why didn’t anybody warn me. I thought I could handle it, but It’s just too BIG! I have just bought an Alba Low D.

Now guys, I’m not very tall in stature, just 5 foot 8 (in 2 inch heels) and this is my 4th whistle from Alba, the other three being “normal sized”. It’s just kind of hard to reach the holes while blowing the squeaky end. I’m hoping somehow the penny whistle fairy will sprinkle some magic dust on it to make it more manageable.

I guess that in the event it beats me, I could always use it to deter burglers.

Rogue

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Have you read about the Piper’s Grip?

http://www.chiffandfipple.com/pipers.html

Cheers,

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MUST…NOT…COMMENT…ARRRRRRRGHHHHHHHHHHHH :astonished: :boggle:

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That’s not big.

THAT’s big

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Piper’s Grip will help. Also, it takes a while to get used to it. It took me months to get full speed on my first low D. Good luck.

-Casey

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Thanks for the advice. Yep! It feels odd but I’ll persevere.

Rogue

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What on earth is that thing???

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recorder… :laughing:

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Regarding the picture, I wonder what Freud would have to say about that…



Loren

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…ummmmm…that she was weaned too early or too late?
:wink: :stuck_out_tongue:

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Freud would say:

‘There are times when a recorder is just a recorder.
That’s twisted enough, really.’

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I didn’t think recorder envy was real until I saw that. . .

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Good Lord. I just posted the same-ish sort of thing in the pub today before I read this.

It must be the UFOs.

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I thought the photo of the huge recorder was a mock-up, but here is the caption from the website where it is located:

Picture at right: This instrument is the largest member of the recorder family, the sub-contrabass recorder. It was made by the lady who is playing it, Adriana Breuknik. She lives in Holland.

wow

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I guess this proves it: recorder thingies are bigger than whistle thingies. (Posted after returning from a Christmas party with really good nog - apologies to all.)

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As a matter of pride, we whistlers need to construct an even lower whistle.

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I now realise why the two Mollenhauer recorders I possess that were designed by the same lady are branded Adri’s Dream.

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THis beast is actually a copy of a 16th cent. one. They use to play them in consorts. You can’t really play something like that solo, you can only use it to play the equivalent of long held-out bass notes on the organ. Ther is no real reason not to make a whistle even lower, though. Just what exactly are you going to do with it, once it’s made?

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Is the Alba low D big? I have an Alba low C, it’s big all right, a nice weapon too, but I can play it as any whistle without problems.

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When I decided to take up the whistle I built my own. To tune the thing I tuned my guitar to the piano and took my guitar to the workshop since it was easier to haul down the stairs. Unfortunately I did not get the whistle finished the first night and after a couple of days my guitar had gone somewhat flat. Anyway, instead of building a low “D” whistle I inadvertantly made an extremely rare “C#” whistle (how’s that for marketing…) It has quite a gap and I have to use piper’s grip but it plays fine. I use it sometimes if I am playing by myself. For sessions I built another whistle that is properly tuned to “D”. I have found that some people have trouble with the finger spread and felt they might prefer a low whistle tuned to a higher note like “G”. My wife bought me a T-shirt as a lark which reads “Big Hands, Big Feet, You do the Math…”

Regarding that huge recorder thing that girl is playing, just imagine how much air it would take…