From 10p a day to celebrating the 1792 Harp Festival, Michael Rooney on music, ... The harp joined fiddle, whistle and concertina in Michael’s repertoire. However, like so many before him, ...

And like young Oscar Anderson, they wanted to learn to play the harmonica, too. Even in modern times, Mr. Hohner’s original idea of selling a small, playable musical instrument at a low price holds ...

We know that once a tin whistle is pulled out of the handbag, it’s going to end with a good night, but where did it all start? Irish traditional music began as an oral tradition, passed on from ...

A close relation of the whistle is the flute. Until the late 1800s most flutes were made out of wood, although most are now made from metal. It was usually played with other instruments such as ...

Along with the fiddle, the harp, the pipes, the accordion, the guitar, the Bodhran drum and the banjo, the Tin Whistle plays a pivotal role in Celtic music.

Pretty soon, I started thinking of songs to whistle. My Uncle Flood used to go into the dining room in the evening and take out his harmonica, and I used to sit there on the floor, just listening ...

Article on the traditional Welsh musical instruments the whistle and flute, on the BBC Wales Music website. ... It was usually played with other instruments such as the harp and fiddle.