I, the Lord of Sea and Sky (Here I am Lord) is a hymn that I played tinwhistle and Uilleann pipes (not simultaneously;-) along with my choir. Made everyone a little teary eyed, and not 'cuz I’m an amateur:-) Key of G. modern but touching.
Cheers,
PR
I, the Lord of Sea and Sky (Here I am Lord) is a hymn that I played tinwhistle and Uilleann pipes (not simultaneously;-) along with my choir. Made everyone a little teary eyed, and not 'cuz I’m an amateur:-) Key of G. modern but touching.
Cheers,
PR
Kathy wrote:
One question that I had as I looked at some of these … How many different whistles, i.e. different keys, do you folks use on a regular basis in the worship setting?
Playing harmonica (also a diatonic instrument) I use the following keys in the worship service:
D, Ab, Bb, C, Eb, F, and G (I actually would use a D whistle or C harmonica to play in G).
I’ve never known any other key to be used during congregational singing in our church.
On 2002-06-21 10:57, Bloomfield wrote:
On 2002-06-20 18:08, Roger O’Keeffe wrote:
… even the vaguest of residual religious leanings.Ha! I like that! I think it’s what Walden has, because his religious slogan is only there half the time (in Netscape). >
I changed it a couple of times. The present version is Latin for Psalm 80:3, “Turn us again, O God, and cause Thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.”
Welcome Kathy. It is so rewarding to play this music. I play with our PRaise Team…we have the first service so play at least eight pieces every Sunday. The whistles I use are D C A Bb E. Once in a great while Eb Bn. Enjoy! Gm
OK, to follow up, I listed what we sang the past 5 weeks and came up with the following keys:
G - 4
Ab - 1
Bb - 1
C - 4
D - 8
Eb - 12
E - 1
F -8
After looking at this a bit, I decided that I could cover 37 out of 39 pieces with 2 whistles. Anyone want to guess which 2?
Now, about the whistles… no, no, I won’t go there!
[ This Message was edited by: Kathy on 2002-06-27 22:08 ]
on an Eb you can play Ab (13); the second would be a toss up between D and C (12 @)
My lightbulb quip was: How many lightbulbs does it take to change an idea?
Mack
Hi Mack - changing an idea is exactly the point! I brought this up because 1) While the D whistle is all you need for IrTrad, in church music we have a much wider variety of keys, and because of other instruments and singers, we can’t always transpose to something more convenient. 2) As a newbie I was trying to figure out, not only how many I would have to buy, but how many I would have to learn to play in order to keep up.
I was able to narrow it down to purchasing 2 more because, as I indicated in my first post, I have learned to play a G# on my D whistle, meaning I can now play anything in the key of A. And, correct me if I’m wrong, but I think that means that using the same fingering, I can play any whistle in 3 keys.
So… also considering the normal vocal ranges we need, I decided that the 2 most useful purchases for me at this point would be a low G ( also useful for C & D ) and a Bb ( also useful for Eb & F ).
I don’t know if I just rationalized WhoA or put direction in it … 
[ This Message was edited by: Kathy on 2002-06-28 13:58 ]
AHA! I see the light!
Good choice Kathy, but I’d like to see you have every key. Thom your cue for that subliminal thing you do.
Mack