Tin Whistle Music

[HEIGHTSIXFIVE]

This is the easiest instrument to play if yu have a good ear for music. The only problem is that I have to listen to the song I want to learn like a thousand times before I get it completely right.

[blkvelvetband]

awesome talent!.....God bless him!

[mossyslopes]

What a fantastic - clean style of play .

Refreshing ........ timeless.

[deterdettol]

Happy 95th birthday, Micho.

[banglefaar]

It is SO hard to play this instrument. Trust me, I own one. You have to blow into it a certain way. I hope to be just a fraction as good as this man someday.

[helpmetounderstand1]

I just want to understand. I respect that old man.

But please, what is so special in his playing that makes him a very good whistler?

I was told to hear his music to learn to play ITM.

I think that some beats are added, it can't be danced, many notes don't sound good.... I think many younger players are playing better now. Am I wrong?

[celticmarine1]

Yes, you are wrong. Micho's music can absolutely be danced to, then and now. His music has a wonderful rhythm, played in a lovely unique Clare style. Keep listening, and you'll understand eventually.  Listen A LOT.

[BlackFolkAndPiano]

@helpmetounderstand1 probably you're pointing about a technical aspect.. I've been wondering about for a bit, you know... I just think that you're right saying some players, as Vallely for example, have a better technique in playing fast, very precisely, at a perfect tempo and with genial variations.. but that's not the traditional ireland's whistling... that's something new, while Micho was THE REAL THING.

am I wrong?

[BlackFolkAndPiano]

@helpmetounderstand1 anyway in these tunes there are no added beats... the tempo is not perfectly precise, but it's great for dancing, I think..

you know, old players were far from technical perfection.. that was just not the point, do you understand? Seamus Ennis, legend of the Uilleann Pipes, recorded just an album, The Wandering Minstrel... Listen to it: it's absolutely not precise, full of squeaks or lost notes.. but it just doesn't matter! what matters is feeling.. irish music was his

[helpmetounderstand1]

@BlackFolkAndPiano : OK you help me to understand.

I still prefer listening to young players but I thank Micho to have them made play better. He was their teacher !

[sionnachfichiuaois]

Priceless:)

[pushiwallboy]

I was hitching in C.Clare in 1984 with my girlfriend. We were carrying instruments and it was raining. A van stopped and picked us up. The driver was a young woman and the passenger an older man.

Do you play music? She asked. Micho plays a bit don't you Micho? Ah now and then, he replied. Yes it was Micho Russell, the greatest whistle player ever,

just back from touring America. I had no idea at the time, but it's a happy memory.

[baahsten7]

Great again. Love his style!

[euth]

lovely, thanks

[cocusflute]

Great clip. Thanks again Bannerman. Micho died in an auto accident. The way I heard it- as a passenger in a car driven by a drunk American on the wring side of the road. He plays this lovely reel in G. I have no name for the second tune, which sounds like a very local Doolin-Liscannor tune.

[MaireMc]

Great tune. Lovely quality to the recording. Thanks x

[goatskinhero]

wasn't he killed in a car-accident?