Whistling..

[hobbitblue]

I've not done as much music these past months as is usually the norm, stringed things are just too challenging for some reason, though I've been playing my recorder most days as its friendly (been playing since I was 6 years old after all (and boy am I out of breath... *g*)). For some reason the other night my brain remembered the existence of a

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[badcat42077]

And of course one is a gorgeous blue! :D

[hobbitblue]

Everthyhing blue is gorgeous, including yours truly :)

[ganimede]

How do you find the time for all this stuff? :P But you know, I would never have thought of learning to play a whistle like that, although I did learn to play the recorder when I was a small person. You would have liked my recorder, it had a gold sparkly shimmer to it. I possibly still have it somewhere!

[hobbitblue]

i don't do any of it for very long, sadly, but 15 minutes tootling makes me happy nonetheless :) And me either on the whistle, in that i had a tin whistle as a kid and it sounded *dreadful* (they still make that brand, I recognised it and ran away rapidly!). Ooh, sparkly gold shimmer! Recorders are fun, you should have a tootle, see if you still enjoy it after all this time.. my current recorder of choice has a blue head joint with sparkly gold bits in it, its the one in the icon.

[ganimede]

It can't be bad if only 15 minutes is enough to make you happy! I know I enjoyed playing my recorder when I was younger and I was sure it was in the attic so I had a look when I was up there the other day but I couldn't find it. It's hiding in a corner somewhere, I know it, I just can't remember which corner. Mine isn't as posh as yours, that looks very classy. I really wanted to learn the flute and when I went to high school, those of us who wanted to learn an instrument went along one lunchtime to get one. There were only two flutes though so I ended up with a trumpet. Not entirely happy with that substitution!

[hobbitblue]

I am, luckily, quite easily pleased (my boyfriend says its one of my charms... :) That recorder is quite a posh one, I do admit, I have an even posher expensive german one, went all the way to the early music centre recorder shop in London to get it (well we were in London for something else and I made sure we went there also...) and I got to playtest lots of really pricey ones, in the up to £100 range to find the one that a) sounded best and b) I could hit the high notes on fairly easily. Am very pleased to find how easy it is to get the high notes on the whistle, there's a folk song I play on the recorder that has bum note in cos I can't get a clear high A but its fine on the whistle (where its not a high A its a high something else with similar fingering but still

[becky44]

Glad you've got a Dixon!

When you're ready to get a low D - have a look at the 4 piece flute! The kit has an interchangable head joint - so you get a low D whistle just right for real Irish music...... and you also get a superb 'R&R' style trad flute - and being made of synthetics, it's indestructible!

Have a listen to Rhonda Larson on youtube.... the recording where she's playing 'The Boatman' at the mediaeval fair in Italy. I think you might like it......

I've had my kit now for 5 years and it's one of my favourite instruments - goes everywhere with me - every day! Alongside the Pocket Sax!

[hobbitblue]

What a genius idea, just took a look on the Dixon website and the flute/s really atttactive, not sure how I'd go on with a traditioanl flute tho, I'm just about ok breathwise on my concert flute, but i seldom play my crystal flute because it needs more breath control than my sometimes fuzzy head can handle... someting to dream about nonetheless, 2 instruments in one can't be bad! :)

Wow, that's a gorgeous piece and played so well, thanks for telling me about Rhonda :)