minstrel: penny whistle question

[nickolas kaugon]

feadog(prounounced fee jig) is a good whistle 

do you have a local branch of cultus celtori eirrein?

they will have many whistle teachers--don't cal it a
penny whistle though, just whistle(or fee jig) some
irish are insulted by the term penny whistle and will
consider you a sassenach--and there are few thing
worse.

--- david ball <dkball at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Picked up a penny whistle at an event recently. It
> is a brass and plastic 
> "Feadog" in D. It is horribly easy to over blow, and
> tends to degenerate 
> into multi harmonic screeches at every opportunity.
> I play a bit of alto 
> recorder, so I am not totally with out skill in
> fipple flutes. My reason for 
> buying it was to get something with a bit more
> piercing sound for noisier 
> environments than my recorder. With this pipe it is
> not working as I can not 
> get enough air through it and still maintain the
> tone. Is that the nature of 
> the beast? Did I just buy a piece of junk? (Hay, I
> paid FAR more than a 
> penny for it ;-). Is it just a matter of more
> practice?
> 
> Thanks
> David Falcone D'el Phoid
> 
>
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