levi
Still fresh, damnit!
Hey, I never said I'd ignored any of your threads; it just seemed a useful thread to make that feature known for anyone that does want to!
Funny, my brother once told me to drive his automatic and after minutes of not knowing what to do i opted out. I found it so very complicated...
Nice car btw.
My best high d whistle so far. It's very heavy (about 150g) thanks to being quite massive brass, has a nice sound, I can get 2 octaves +1 note out of it chromatically and it isn't even that expensive:
And a new high c whistle from the same line but made from aluminium, I can get the same range out of it (with only one grip being different on the upper most end), it did cost about 2/5 of my old high c one made from carbon fibres which has less range:
I had several low-D whistles by now, some are specifically made for small hands and I need that too.very nice, i bought my first Tin Whistle in Blarney right after i kissed the Blarney Stone...... i want a low D but i dont think i hve big enough hands to reach the holes....
I had an interesting learning experience learning manual. I was on the solar race team in University: take a few years, build a solar car, race it across North America against other schools. I was in my final year when we finished and the race was coming up, making me one of three people on the team that was 25 years old, of which only two of us had a drivers license: you needed to be 25 or older for insurance purposes, you see. I had a crash course (figuratively speaking) on manual transmission learning how to drive an 16 foot cube truck, and drove it, with a million dollar solar car in the back, from Ontario to Kansas and then to Texas, and then an empty one back home. Only stalled once because I made a mistake pulling into a sloped driveway: getting going from a standstill is a lot easier on flat ground than it is uphill. Since then I've only had occasion to drive manual twice, once when I needed to go somewhere at lunch, before I owned my own car, and my friend lent me his car; and again when my wife and I visited my mother-in-law and her fiance in Puerto Rico. That was an interesting visit.In my case for learning manual, I just had limited exposure to them
i heard it so often i could whistle the training signal sequence..lolBack in the day we used to listen to the dial up tone and knew before the computer told us whether we'd got online or not.
I had several low-D whistles by now, some are specifically made for small hands and I need that too.
So far the ones best playable with small hands were:
Carbony / Rob Gandara
- Ideal for very small hands but lacks in range and chromatics, warm sound.
- Inverted cylindrical bore (you want that with small hands).
- Pricey and not very versatile though.
MK Pro
- Often described as "God's gift to low whistlers". I agree.
- Mostly "out of stock".
- Pricey but worth it.
Tony Dixon
- The plastic version actually plays better than the more expensive aluminium version. Fantastic price/value ratio. Range and chromatics are excellent, sound is nice although not comparable to MK Pro.
- Inverted cylindrical bore (see Carbony).
I didn't try the Alba low D but since it's made by a woman (just like the MK Pro), it should work although I think the spacing of the Alba's is very weird.
What I urge you to stay away from when you have small hands:
Ian lambe and Howard. The sound is fantastic but I just couldn't close the holes properly with my fingers.
I'd recommend looking for the Dixon Low D in local music stores, they often have it since it's made in big numbers.
If it doesn't need to be a Low D, I highly recommend Low F and G whistles, the Chieftains are nice for example when it comes to those sizes although you can never go wrong with Dixon and they are cheaper.
I have whistles in the keys of D, Eb, E, F, G, A, Bb, c, d, eb, e, f and g.
There's a size for everyone. I just need all those because I play with many different instruments from different cultures on sessions and the keys vary a lot.
Since I currently own 19 whistles of various sizes and tried many brands by now in big and small, just ask for further information.
I am not playing exclusively Irish but also French, German, Greek, Russian and Swedish folk on them so versatility (range, chromatics) is probably more important to me than to anyone else.
PS: I'm only talking about tunable ones since I never used non-tunables.
Ha, I started out in a pipe band as well, as a piper though.i have about a dozen in various keys.. about 4 or 5 in D, a G, a B flat..... and one in D that is in 2 pieces. used to carry that in my sporran when i was a drummer in a pipe band...
i have a couple of wooden ones and a couple that might be termed loosley a flute. basically the same as a tin whistle but played and blown like a flute..
currently i mostly play a Cigar Box Guitar i built. a 3 stringer in DAd tuning...