Your Favorite Tin Whistler

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Tin Whistler
From: GUEST,Paul Burke
Date: 22 Jun 05 - 12:19 PM

I can see disagreements developing here over matters of pure taste. Vin Garbutt plays in the spit- tongue style that the old guys in the Exile of Erin (anyone remember that?) used to call "folkloric".

Mary Bergin, Tom McHaile and most other Irish players play with very restrained, subtle tonguing. The punctuation is largely provided by the fingers, using cuts, rolls, crans etc.

My preference is for the latter, but as I say, it's all a matter of taste.

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Tin Whistler
From: Le Scaramouche
Date: 22 Jun 05 - 12:09 PM

Personal taste, but Furey uses too much vibrato.

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Tin Whistler
From: Stu
Date: 22 Jun 05 - 12:08 PM

I saw Paddy Moloney with the Chieftans in Manchester last year, and he was incredible.

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Tin Whistler
From: GUEST,CN
Date: 22 Jun 05 - 11:19 AM

Mary Bergin gets my vote

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Tin Whistler
From: Dave Bryant
Date: 22 Jun 05 - 11:17 AM

Mind you I'm surprised that no-one has mentioned Finbar Furey, he virtually pioneered the low D whistle, and his composition "The Lonesome Boatman" is one of the most performed pieces om it.

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Tin Whistler
From: ard mhacha
Date: 22 Jun 05 - 10:19 AM

Mary Bergin the greatest.

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Tin Whistler
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 22 Jun 05 - 10:19 AM

Vin the man...

And Phil Brown on the low D ('specialy if he is backed up by a brass band)

Cheers

DtG

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Tin Whistler
From: Dave Bryant
Date: 22 Jun 05 - 09:33 AM

Vin's rendition of "The William Tell Overture" used to have me in fits. One of his albums was called "The Young Tin Whistle Pest".

Mudcat's own Leadfingers is pretty good whistle player too - at least he can't play banjo at the same time !

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Tin Whistler
From: GUEST,Richard
Date: 22 Jun 05 - 08:55 AM

Packie Byrne (and he uses plenty of tongue)

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Tin Whistler
From: GUEST
Date: 22 Jun 05 - 08:51 AM

James McNally , even Van the man called him the maestro!

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Tin Whistler
From: GUEST,An Englishman Abroad
Date: 22 Jun 05 - 07:56 AM

The Old Tin Whistle Pest Himself.

Vin's the Man

all the best John

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Tin Whistler
From: muppitz
Date: 22 Jun 05 - 07:38 AM

Garbutt.

Nuff said.

muppitz x

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Tin Whistler
From: kendall
Date: 22 Jun 05 - 06:43 AM

The late Tom Rowe.

Tommy Makem

Cathell McConnell (Boys of the Loch)

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Tin Whistler
From: GUEST, Jos
Date: 22 Jun 05 - 06:28 AM

Yes, Vin!

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Tin Whistler
From: GUEST,padgett
Date: 22 Jun 05 - 06:20 AM

Vin no question!

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Tin Whistler
From: Kaleea
Date: 22 Jun 05 - 06:16 AM

A kid named Roy, who used to be in Ceili band I used to play in (he was about 20 at that time). He came across the pond from Ireland with his parents at about age 10, already a darn good whistler. He taught me to whistle, along with the button accordian player(he was in his late 20's when he came to the states), who used to tell me, "No tongue, no tongue at all!!"

Subject: Your Favorite Tin Whistler
From: Le Scaramouche
Date: 22 Jun 05 - 06:10 AM

Inspired by the banjo thread, who is your favorite tin whistler?
My three are Liam og o'Flynn, Johnny Moynihan and Phil Cunningham.
Mary Bergin gets an honourable mention.

Allen