Klarinet Archive - Posting 000574.txt from 2002/06

From: notestaff@-----.de (David Glenn)
Subj: Re: [kl] Penny whistle
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 06:22:24 -0400

Tony Pay wrote:

> 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.

No doubt by a legendary teacher

>
>
> Tony
> --
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>
> ... He who laughs last, thinks slowest.
>

David

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