{"id":589,"date":"2015-08-14T13:33:05","date_gmt":"2015-08-14T18:33:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/?p=589"},"modified":"2015-09-17T14:57:54","modified_gmt":"2015-09-17T19:57:54","slug":"blarney-pilgrim-and-the-irish-tin-whistle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/blarney-pilgrim-and-the-irish-tin-whistle\/","title":{"rendered":"Blarney Pilgrim and the Irish Tin Whistle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/horse0040.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-590\" src=\"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/horse0040-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"horse0040\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/horse0040-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/horse0040.jpg 476w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>These tunes are hard to learn; Irish music is unexpected, with odd intervals, a phrase goes on longer and to odder places than one would think. Learning The Barney Pilgrim on my D whistle I have to memorize every note exactly, it doesn&#8217;t just fall into place as would, say, &#8216;Hard Times&#8217;. I wonder how old the Irish tunes are. Was watching a Youtube video on Aurignacian archaeological digs in France, and one of the archaeologists had made an exact replica of a bone flute that had been recovered &#8212;- 20,000 years old. Or more. It was holed exactly for the pentatonic scale. He played the first few bars of &#8216;Star Spangled Banner&#8217; on it. That astounds me. \u00a0Back to Barney Pilgrim on this hot day (102), staying in the house except to go out and move the hose around from tree to tree.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And that kid has eight fingers on the whistle but in reality Irish whistles have only six holes. Details, details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These tunes are hard to learn; Irish music is unexpected, with odd intervals, a phrase goes on longer and to odder places than one would think. Learning The Barney Pilgrim on my D whistle I have to memorize every note exactly, it doesn&#8217;t just fall into place as would, say, &#8216;Hard Times&#8217;. I wonder how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=589"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":704,"href":"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589\/revisions\/704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}