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Thread #67616 Message #1132766
Posted By: Bob Bolton
10-Mar-04 - 12:36 AM
Thread Name: Tuning an Irish whistle
Subject: RE: Tuning an Irish whistle
G'day Wyllow / leeneia,
Since the affordable ('pennywhistle'/tin whistle) only appeared in 1843 - although all sorts of home-made and traditional whistle lived all over the civilised world - whereas the recorder, after a few centuries dominance was fast disappearing about the same time (OK - it was revived by Dolmetsch in the early 20th century) I would have thought that the recorder would then have been the favoured, 'traditional' instrument - and the newfangled tin whistle would have been about as 'traditional' as an electric guitar in 1950.
It's all a matter of perception ... and prejudice ... and what you can get away with!