Klarinet Archive - Posting 000573.txt from 2002/06

From: Tony@-----.uk (Tony Pay)
Subj: [kl] Penny whistle
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 05:49:13 -0400

On Tue, 18 Jun 2002 00:10:09 -0700 (PDT), w7wright@-----.net said:

> One of the things that knocked me unconscious recently was what can be
> done on a penny whistle, and how -good- it can sound when played
> properly. It's not a reed instrument, but it can be a true concert
> instrument if you wish.
>
> I'm not kidding about this. A year ago, I attended a standing
> ovation concert, and afterwards I approached the performer because
> obviously she had an instrument much better than the $3.95 penny
> whistle that is sold to kids.....
>
> .....the lady smiled and said that her whistle definitely was *not*
> the $3.95 sort.
>
> It came from a jar of $1.95 whistles! (which she had sorted through
> until she found the right one).

There's a deep truth lurking there, Bill.

I was once gripped -- nay, excited, entranced and transported by turn --
for around five minutes by someone doing a solo break on a *cowbell*.

Of course, it *was* the Selmer hi-tone Festival double-undercut Moennig
reverse polycylindrical cowbell, played with the superbalance maxply
carbon-fibre/cocobolo composite exciter, and using the double reverse
flexible wrist action taught at Curtis, or perhaps some other place in
the US.

Tony
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