To Dale...

Whistle
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I can honestly say, Dale, that you have changed my life. Once, I was just a normal zhlub, dragging myself thru an unchanging, dreary, beige landscape of life. I stumbled on your site and became transformed.

Now, not only do I now have more whistles than I can carry, as well as fifes, flute-like objects and a stray ocarina, I also have a couple of wonderful flutes all of which I cannot play worth a poo. Recently an obsessive desire to take up the hammered dulcimer has come over me ( perhaps I need a musical instrument which, even if I cannot play it, I can hit with a hammer). I have been driving around town with Uilleann pipe music wailing. When I pull up to a light, hip-hoppers roll up their windows and pretend to ignore me.

With your unwitting encouragement I have embarked on a descent into WhOA, IrTrad, madness, degeneracy and Celtic festivals.

Thank you, thank you, thank you Dale.

Enjoy the Copeland.

Roger

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Ach, Roger…Be careful. On the road to hammer dulcimers, dragons be…
If ye think whistles are addictive, ye have not yet lived…Been there for 20 years. No way out. And that’s OK…

Best.
Byll

23

Thanks so much Dale. You really have done a remarkable thing here.

This “thank-you” was a long time coming and well-deserved.

Thanks to you as well Paul.


Doc

24

I’ve put together a little thing to thank you all for this beautiful gift.

http://www.chiffandfipple.com/UndisputedD.htm

Alas, no clips. (Yet.) I really have to buy a microphone one of these days.

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Awwwww! That is so sweet!

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It is, very sweet!


…kinda tacky going for a microphone too… :smiling_imp:

Hey, anybody out there got a mike they ain’t using?

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:laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing:

Sorry - I just lost it when I saw that.

Roger

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Oh, no, you miss my point. There’s a REASON I don’t own a microphone.

Dale

29

Heh, heh, heh… :laughing:

…keep hopin’ big guy :stuck_out_tongue:

30

He’s really very good at this, isn’t he?

31

He who, Lamb O? :confused:

32

Hip Hip Hooray! Cheers Dale! May you play it always in harmony
and good spirit!

Nicely done, all!

33

Dale, many thanks for providing this forum. I’ve learned much!

Happy 49.5th birthday!

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I do this too! Intentionally!

I find the Bothy Band to be the best for this sort of thing, especially the tracks that include a bodhran.

At last, a legit use of the goat!


And a big thanks to Dale for helping me plug into the whistle/flute community. :party:

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Hooray for Dale. Couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy.

And many thanks to Paul for putting this project together and making the great certificate.

What a gang we have here. :party: