It was January in Idaho and I was lucky enough to be spending a work day on the slopes of my favorite mountain in the stunningly beautiful Sun Valley. I was by myself. My family and friends unable to join me on my sudden business trip to Idaho. I had arrived at dusk at the […]
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I thought I’d just follow up on Misha’s post about our search for inspiration for the “toob”. Last Christmas holidays I happened to be heading through Berlin to Italy to visit the in-laws – no direct flights from Scotland to Venice, it seems we Scots are condemned to only visit the south of Spain cheaply… […]
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MK in the SoundCloud!
We’ve created a MK Soundcloud which we’ll be adding to over time. If you’d like to send us any music made with Mk whistles with then visit our Soundcloud and use the ‘send track’ button to the right of the Mk logo.
Dear Mk music, This past week I was invited to Thailand to be a part of multi-cultural band that would provide music at the international meetings of a Christian charity organization. Although the band was mostly modern instruments, I was invited to provide a more ethnic “color” using various whistles, flutes and other instruments I […]
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Brian Signs on…
Misha has asked me to write a brief introduction to myself for the “toob” blog, to describe my background and interest in the project,and after him being so nice about me and all, I thought I’d better put out my side of the story.. so here goes…
The West Coast of Scotland has to be one of the most amazing places in the world. All year I had been looking forward to another few weeks exploring it on a very special little ship, The Hippo-owned by a friend. Sailing ensures that things aren’t seen to quickly and the world goes by a […]
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A Ghostly voice by Chuck Boody
At a festival a few years back several of us were playing late at night; well really early in the morning–about 2 AM. Two of us were on whistles, lo D and either A or hi D, and were improvising harmonies to the slow tunes we were playing. There was a hammered dulcimer (a fine […]
For me designing the MK Low Whistle was a solitary affair: days, weeks, months and then years of slowly refining a process. When I did eventually start work on the Toob, MK’s chromatic whistle, I was working in exactly the same way that I always had been – on my own. It was while […]
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A Chromatic Whistle?
I always found it amazing that there wasn’t some form of chromatic whistle. I mean this is arguably the worlds oldest melodic musical instrument. Why would it be left out when almost all the other commonly thought of musical instruments are Chromatic. The number of times that I’d be playing, the music would change key […]
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Introducing the Toob
So I’ve been working on a project to create a chromatic whistle for roughly six years. It’s a typically long and protracted process for designing a musical instrument, but like so many of the things I’ve been involved with in the last few years, it might be taking longer than expected but it is actually […]