So, I’ve only been on this forum for a couple weeks and already I’m curious about all the personalities floating around the Chiff and Fipple cosmos. Obviously there is a broad range of experience here, which is great because we can all learn something from each other, or at least commiserate. However, most people don’t have it posted in their profile weather they have anything on youtube. The youtube sticky of this forum seems to focus on people posting really cool videos of other people. I would like to see what people on this site have done, be it fabulous or dreadful.
To be fair I’ll put a link to mine here. I’m not supper proud of it, I started posting videos because my mom couldn’t remember any of our old tunes (we both recently started playing again after a 15 year hiatus) and this is simply the easiest way to share.
Very nice! You’ve got an excellent sense of phrasing and a great sound! One thing I notice is that the ends of certain sections tend to be clipped as you anticipate a breath; I have the same problem on Lord Mayo, and I was able to- well, mitigate, if not fix the problem by making a single note stacatto during the rise and taking a short breath, then concentrating on not letting the last note fall off. I’m so jealous of your slides on this song! Perfect touch to a very sassy song. My slides still sound pretty goofy, so I’m working on that. Definitely going to learn this song though!
This isn’t whistle playing, but it does introduce you to my assistants at the Global Pennywhistle Tweaking Research and Production Consortium headquarters, Geraldine and Josephine:
My videos aren’t the best of quality, and the playing is far from perfect lol. But the music is about fun, right? And at least I have great band mates to hide some of my mistakes
i’ve a few youtube vids, but none with a whistle or a flute… (edit: after i posted this, i found some old vids that i thought i had banished to the outer reaches of the universe… the links are in the post below)
Will you put them up anyway? Doesn’t have to be whistling. I did ask for ‘stuff’.
Jerry, thanks for the great John Skelton post, super inspiring, (and makes me even more excited to get the tweaked Bb i ordered), but I want to see you play one of your whistles. Unless your the Jerry Freeman who is a bee keeper from Georgia, I couldn’t find you anywhere on youtube, just other folks playing your tweaked whistles. If you don’t mind, I would like to challenge you to get something of yourself up online.
I’m sorry to say, my playing isn’t such that I would be willing to try to record something and put it online.
I put ALL my time and resources into the whistles themselves, and I’m barely keeping up with demand as it is. Not only do I not have the time to practice, my motivation and aptitude are much more suited to working on the instruments than to playing them.
I’m something of a perfectionist and I will never play well enough to feel satisfied. However, to know that thousands of my whistles have gone all over the world, bringing pleasure to so many people and making music far more beautiful than I could ever hope to play … that is where the joy is for me.
To be truthful, the John Skelton bit, and every example of anyone playing one of my whistles, that IS me. I’m there in the instrument itself.
Not me. I’m all about the moment and guarding my privacy. Us Illuminati have to kee a low profile so that we can keep blaming the Knights Templar for everything that’s going on.
But back to you. I liked how your music sounded fresh and light and if I paid more attention, I could figure out what you were doing with that twist of your lower hand.
I love other people videos. I like to see what’s going on in the background. You have very nice cupboards but I can’t figure out what the brown thing is on top of your microwave. Is it a cutting board?
No whistle clips, but here’s a fluty one: http://youtu.be/jchMh4E0Kq4
(Pardon the bad acoustics. this was recorded in the great room, high ceilings and wood floor)
Russ
As far as I know this is the only video in captivity of me playing…at least on youtube. Taken about 1:30 AM in a jam session at “Evart” (the Original Dulcimer Players Funfest). Simultaneous improvisation is fun, though sometimes we forget to play the melody…
And at least I have great band mates to hide some of my mistakes 
Glad to hear your keeping busy, I very much plan on being part of your demand.