F-e-a-d-ó-g

Hellooooooo!

They are here! My Feadógs!!! I forgot about the time they took to get here, and fell instantly in love!

Love the more mellow sound of the brass one, but also the more refined sound of the nickel one. Unfortunately I don't have much time to play today, I just played parts of Road to Lisdoonvarna and Concerning Hobbits, but tomorow I really want to make it count and practise for about an hour or so with them. My fingers are still a bit stiff from the stop, but I'll try to regain my (little) knowledge to be able to play more tunes.

I'm thinking in:

- Road to Lisdoonvarna

- Swallowtail Jig

- Lord Mayo

- Scarborough Fair

- Gift of a Thistle

- The Irish Washerwoman

- Irish Drinking Song

not necessarily by this order.

And for the end of today's post, my newborn:

Cheers!

New blog, no new Feadog

Hello you all!

Today I have bad news and good news.

Starting with the bad ones: I'm not too happy with feadog.ie, I bought a couple of Whistles on the 27th of January and they still didn't arrive. That makes it 10 working days, which I think is much more than enough for a couple of Whistles to come from Ireland to Portugal.

First it took around 3 or 4 days for the order to be processed, and now it says it has been shipped...I'll wait until tomorrow for them to arrive before I contact them.

Now the good news, I'm going to make some visual modifications to the blog, nothing fancy, just a couple of things here and there.

Hope that I still have readers after all these blackouts. Not so sure if I deserve them!

Go on now, it's time for your daily practise, I might be doing the same in a couple of minutes.

Cheers!

DerElligh and a couple of Feadogs

Hello Whistlers!

While roaming around the C&F forum I found DerElligh, which was presented by Stefan (the Whistler off course!)

It's a German band with 5 members, they play Irish Folk and you definitely should check them out! Their site is www.derelligh.de and it's full of videos from their performances and info about the band. The only thing I have to say is that the site is only in German, maybe an English translation might be coming, surely the english speaking fans would apreciate.

As for more news, I'm waiting for my 2 Feadogs to arrive, one Brass D and one Nickel D. I still amaze myself that
one can get 2 instruments (not the best in the world for sure, but fully playable and with a nice sound) for less than 20€.
You know...I came from electric bass, just a set of strings would cost me more than that!!!

And that's all for now people of the Whistle!

Cheers!

10 days later...

Hi there everyone!

Here I am again, with nothing too new to say!

These last days I got a small cold, same as saying that no whistling around :(

I tried the Low D, but the amount of breath together with my goey nose...just doesn't work!

I've been checking on Ryan Duns videos again, to see where I am at, but lacking the time (and breath) to do it. Some days I just wish I could have a couple of weeks in the middle of nowhere, alone in a hut, with my whistles and no schedules whatsoever.

Hope someone still reads this...

Cheers!

Day 1...again!

Yes, today I'm officially going back to the Whistle!

I'll retake some online lessons, and check out some simple tunes until I can figure out where I am at right now!

I hope to be able to post some videos of me playing in a couple of weeks, but that's something that depends on my skill :P (I can always make people laugh by "pretending" I'm playing bad) Hehehehe

I'm thrilled to get back to it, I missed the little bastard!

Cheers to you, and have a nice whistling weekend!

Side note: the visitor counter crashed, I guess it was about 600 unique visitors (IP's) but not really sure, so I'm still unsure as to put another counter or just forget about it. If you want to bother just give your opinion ;)

3 months later...

Helloooooo people of the Whistle!

I'm trully sorry for my absence, life's a mess and for the last 3 months I hardly touched the Whistle (except for one or two incursions :P )

I really hope to get back to it until the end of January, and start learning (almost) everything again.

Cheers to you good people,

Yay!

Hello there!

I finally have a new computer and internet connection, from now on I'll be able to start posting again. I am sorry for the interruption.

Cheers!!