A couple of friends of mine who are excellent musicians were willing to record some new sound samples of my latest whistles and I’d like to share them with you. Dave Hanger and Pat O’Scannell are regulars at the Sunday Celtic session at the Black Sheep here in Ashland and our own Tony Higgins is playing the Low D (Just tempered) along with Constance Dean who is playing accordian on the Home Page.
Your can hear the new clips at http://www.reyburnwhistles.com
Thanks for listening.
Ronaldo
Thanks for the heads up. I’ll head over to your site and have a listen!
Hey everybody, I’m playing my accordian on Ronaldo’s Home Page sound clip (of course Tony Higgins is playing along with me too, Hah!!!)
Come have a listen.
Constance
Hi, Ronaldo. As you know, I love your standard bore Low D. Thank you for posting the sound clips. I want to ask you, because I am genuinely curious, why are you making high whistles that have the opposite tone characteristics of your Low whistles?
Hi Constance, pleased to meet you! Is there time travel involved in my future? Did you come back and visit my in my near future, or something? I’m getting confused.
I mainly go on-line at work (like, at lunch time) and don’t get much time on the computer at home. I haven’t heard our duet. Were we good? (Will we be good?)
Tony
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Tony,
You might be confused, but I’m now enlightened!! I thought the playing was familiar, now I know…I presume you have sussed it by now?
Listening to those whistles has given me an attack of WhOA…just when I thought I had kicked the habit!
Dave.
No, Dave, I haven’t listened in yet. I’m still at work. I’m dying of curiosity. I know that when you deal with long distance file dubbing, keeping a steady cadence becomes an issue. I hope I didn’t make it too difficult for Constance. (I wonder if she’s cute…)
Tony
Hi Jessie, Opposite characteristics huh? Well when I started experimenting with high whistles I found some of the purer tones to be a bit piercing when compared to the mellower tones of the lower frequencies (Low D, Low F and even Low G). It was actually a little hard on my ears, especially as I was tuning over periods of hours. So to hear the breath in the tone softened the sound and became more pleasing for me. It also gives the instrument more of a whistly sound which I assume is what a lot of people are looking for. I also wanted an instrument that would play fairly loudly and be able to take quite a bit of breath, which is what I am used to in playing the Low D (which is my main instrument). I originally made a head that was quite a bit tighter in the voicing, and when I handed it to Joanie Madden she said “I want to put more air into it” which got me thinkin’. Anyway thats a lot of words and I personally just like the tone so thats what I’m making.
And yes Tony, Constance is quite cute.
Ronaldo
Yes, Joanie likes whistles that take hard blowing, like her O’Riordans (which are pure in tone). There are several variables that a maker could play with to increase or decrease breath pressure requirements. So your answer to the question of why the high whistles are much more breathy-sounding than the low ones is that you prefer the breathy sound (and yes, clearly, some people, like Steven Jones, prefer that). Ok. Fair enough.
Hi Tony - it WAS good for me. Was it good for you?? I assume you’ve heard us by now - I was the one on the bottom…
Seriously, I love the way the low D sounds with the drone of the accordian holding the base… it would be so fun to jam with you some time - for real!
Let’s get together again sometime - with the high D! How 'bout my place??
Constance
Sounds great Ronaldo, but when do we get a sound clip of the narrow-bore low-D.
Doc
Doc, the narrow bore Low D is next on the list of things to do, so it shouldn’t be too long.
Ronaldo