Actually, not that it matters to anyone, but I DO have a hearing loss.
So do I. It’s a high frequency loss and it affects my listening to whistles. If a high-pitched whistle like an F or G is used many notes go missing on me if the whistle is coming through a speaker. It also happens some with a D whistle. It’s not so bad when I or someone else plays. However, I don’t think that a simple hearing loss affects my abiliby to learn by ear. I haven’t noticed any decrease in that ability.
Just out of curiosity, does playing the upper octave A’s and B’s hurt your ears? It’s painful for me. I ordered a quiet whistle from Mack Hoover. Hopefully that will enable me to at least play all the tunes I like.
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I should get a quiet whistle too-for a variety of reasons. But yes, high notes can be unpleasant as can almost any kind of loud noise. I think many kinds on noise, including high notes, are now much more painful that before I had the loss. I carry ear plugs to any place where I might encounter a lot of noise.
I’m looking for sheet music to a song called, Kid on the Mountain. It’s a dance song.
I have a book for sale, “Mastering Irish Music in 5 Easy Lessons,” by the classical composer, Leonid Shegolev. He claims he has never heard Irish music and doesn’t need to, and you don’t either to become expert. If you follow the plan, you can become proficient in 2 weeks on any instrument. I’ve done it, it really works. (He strongly discourages learning by ear as you will pick up all kinds of bad habits and idiosyncracies.) The melodies in the book include ‘When Irish Eyes are Smiling,’ ‘Danny Boy’ ‘I’ll Take You Home Again, Kathleen,’ and a song that doesn’t have any words: ‘An tSuiggeannnbhuill ar an bMhbaioghlachmytongueiscramping sghalloughrainn.’ In English, ‘The Dog.’
I have some really great penny whistles for sale. They are fully chromatic, having 7 holes on top and a thumb hole. The pinkie hole has 2 holes. They are perfect for playing folk music as they sound as close to a recorder as you can get without being a recorder. (The label states ‘Flutophone.’) The low flutophone has to be heard to be believed. This instrument was played by a famous piper in the original Riverdance.
By the way, it’s great to see other members are Enya fans. I’ve transcribed all her songs. Email me for the abc’s. Don’t you hate it when elite musical snobs make fun of you for liking ‘real’ music. Who needs those silly dance songs. The notes jump all over the place. They have to be computer generated.
On a less serious note, we should have a competition for the most irritating signature. This will require some thought; there’s fierce competition out there.
Tony
On 2002-06-25 13:52, TelegramSam wrote:
You know what’s really amusing? I think the only thing I’ve been able to pick out only by ear, completely without the aid of sheetmusic, is the melody from The Violent Femmes’ song “All I Want”
Hey! I did the same thing with “Blister in the Sun”. Start it on D (DFD GF DFD GF DF GFED ddd dB, etc…)
Yeah? Well, when you can play all the songs in O’Neill’s gazillion dance songs, with and without ornamentation, come back and speak to me about my temperament. Where’s your humility???
Tony
Steve, I think people have lost track of your original question.
I think your problem is that “Three blind mice” is the title of the SONG. The AIR, or tune, is usually called “Eye-poking theme from the Three Stooges.” I think JC’s has versions in D, G, and A, including a transcription of the rare recording of Chieftains with Moe Howard on sackbut.
“When you get to the top of the mountain, take a leak, because it all runs downhill”
PS will be posting the abc for “Two Fat Rats” after I learn tune from Redwolf. Then I put it in Clips and Snips under Medleys… no category for post-modernists classical polkas.
[ This Message was edited by: The Weekenders on 2002-06-25 18:51 ]
Bretton and Sam,
The only Violent Femmes song they play on the radio here is “Blister in the Sun.” I have yet to try to figure out any song on the whistle that I’ve heard of the radio. May have to try it some time when I get even more bored than usual.
I just wanted to make it clear that I wasn’t making fun of anyone. (well, hardly anyone). Just the knuckleheads, actually. But, you know that isn’t you.
When you get to the top of the mountain, you can look down on everyone else.
