I once thought the Irish tin whistle was nothing more than a child’s toy. I really could not take seriously that a simple metal tube and mouthpiece, costing less than $10 from a store could produce such a magical sound.<\/p>\n
Over the last few years I have been spending more and more time with and listening to traditional Celtic musicians and have come to realise how just how beautiful whistle music can be.<\/p>\n
Here celtic musician Ray Smith makes that litte Irish tin whistle sing like a bird during the recent Paddy’s Day festivities.<\/p>\n
I first met Ray on New Year’s day at a piper’s afternoon where I listened to and enjoyed first hand some of the most beautiful playing of pipes and whistles I have ever heard.<\/p>\n
I think I’m hooked. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
Photo: Robert Rath, ‘The Whistle Master’, 1\/100s f4.0 ISO800 200mm<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I once thought the Irish tin whistle was nothing more than a child’s toy. I really could not take seriously that a simple metal tube and mouthpiece, costing less than $10 from a store could produce such a magical sound. Over the last few years I have been spending more and more time with and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7351,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[47,2138,2133,702,326,722,2135,1905,2136,2134,2132,2137],"class_list":["post-7350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-adelaide","tag-blckandwhite","tag-celticmusic","tag-irish","tag-music","tag-musician","tag-paddysday","tag-performance","tag-raysmith","tag-saintpatricksday","tag-tinwhistle","tag-whistle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7350"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7352,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7350\/revisions\/7352"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}