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Re: Penny Whistles
Poster: edh@ascc01.ascc.lucent.com (Alfredo el Bufon)
Writes Lady Alianora Munro:
> Most modern penny whistles are made of some combination of metal and
> plastic and are keyed in D; if you can get a *wooden* penny whistle keyed
> in C (such things exist, I have seen them) you will have something fairly
> close to a medieval flute.
This reminds me of something a mundane co-worker once told me years ago:
I had a wooden whistle,
But it wooden whistle.
So I got a steel whistle,
But it steel wooden whistle.
Then I got a tin whistle,
And now I tin whistle.
I think that's better than any tortured story I could make about
a penny whistle made of nickel keeping dime in close quarters.
-- Alfredo
Alfredo el Bufon
Elvegast, Windmaster's Hill, Atlantia
edh@ascc01.ascc.lucent.com
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Into Tuskane he turnes when thus wel timed,
Takes townes full tite with towres full high;
Walles he welt down, wounded knightes,
Towres he turnes, and tourmentes the pople,
Wrought widowes full wlonk wrotherayle singen,
Oft werye and weep and wringen their handes;
And all he wastes with war there he away rides;
Their welthes and their wonninges wandreth he wrought!
-- Alliterative Morte Arthure
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