Hello!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Welcome to today\u2019s video, another one that I\u2019m recording here in my office next to my old piano and you can guess from the closed lid of the piano that I\u2019m not going to talk about any \u201ekey things\u201c today. But I\u2019m going to talk about a new addition to my ever-growing collection of recorders, whistles and other types of flutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
You might already have seen the video of me playing my new James Dominic low whistle in D. I\u2019m going to put the link to this video in the description of this one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Here it is!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
My new and first ever low whistle in D.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I own quite a few high D tin whistles, this instrument is actually the very first one I ever bought, but I\u2019m going to talk about this one and its story in another video. Just wanted to show it to you to compare the size.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
High D \u2013 low D.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And, yeah, one thing that you as a recorder player have to get used to when playing whistles: not only \u2013 you don\u2019t have a thumb hole, and you get into the next octave by overblowing,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
but especially for the larger whistles like the low one in D you have to learn the so-called piper\u2019s grip, which means that only your ring fingers close the holes as you know from the recorder,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
and the other fingers, you just put them flat on the holes and close them like this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And here is what this black beauty sounds like.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
[Playing the scale upwards]<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And the second octave<\/p>\n\n\n\n
[Playing the high notes, and then downwards again]<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It is not made of metal, it\u2019s made from some kind of polymer, plastic, I can\u2019t remember, honestly, what the material is called, so, sorry, James Dominic, if I\u2019m saying something wrong now,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
but anyway, it\u2019s a very light instrument. That makes it easy to handle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And the other good thing and why I wanted it is that it actually comes in two parts. You can move the upper and the lower part away from each other or bring them back together again to tune the instrument. So, if it\u2019s too high, you can make it a bit lower and if it\u2019s too low, you can make it a bit higher.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And with this warm and breathy sound it is really, really nice for slow airs and ballads and romantic songs, whatever. For example!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
[Playing \u201eDrink to me only\u201c]<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But of course you can also play lively, fast music, reels, jigs, marches, whatever \u2013 you can play them if you \u201ecan\u201c.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Here\u2019s another example.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
[Playing \u201ePortsmouth\u201c]<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So, this was a more or less short introduction to this low whistle in D.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Oh, yeah, I mustn\u2019t forget!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Because I love size comparisons, obviously I brought a tenor recorder so that you can see they\u2019re almost the same size.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The recorder has more holes and has one hole on the back and basically it looks different, it sounds different, it\u2019s a different instrument. If you want to hear what this one sounds like, you can have a look at my other videos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Thank you very much for watching today and thanks for your patience, because it has been a while since that instrument moved in and I just haven\u2019t had time for a proper introduction, but here it is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As always, if you have any questions, don\u2019t hesitate to contact me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Thanks for watching, and see you soon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Bye-bye!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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