Hey guys, I've been in touch with Jerry on this, I was one of the first pennywhistle makers to use this mode and in closing my business I passed the baton to Jerry as he is an excellent craftsman. The Ahava Rabba mode is in D however the Descending note goes to C and it's very necessary in a lot of songs to use the descender. Also, this descender allows it to be played in one of the Arabic modes as well. The Ahava Rabba historically is known as far back as the Byzantine era. It might even go back to the temple period in Jerusalem. You can play Hava Nagila, Shalom Aleichem, Tantz Tantz Yiddelech, and Bei Mir Bist Du Shoen. Gary Gould plays an Ahava Rabba whistle: ruclips.net/video/kFLxxYkAoSQ/видео.html
Hey guys, I've been in touch with Jerry on this, I was one of the first pennywhistle makers to use this mode and in closing my business I passed the baton to Jerry as he is an excellent craftsman. The Ahava Rabba mode is in D however the Descending note goes to C and it's very necessary in a lot of songs to use the descender. Also, this descender allows it to be played in one of the Arabic modes as well.
The Ahava Rabba historically is known as far back as the Byzantine era. It might even go back to the temple period in Jerusalem.
You can play Hava Nagila, Shalom Aleichem, Tantz Tantz Yiddelech, and Bei Mir Bist Du Shoen.
Gary Gould plays an Ahava Rabba whistle: ruclips.net/video/kFLxxYkAoSQ/видео.html
Way cool!
Sounds very nice Jerry. What's the overall length of the whistle? It sounds a bit lower than a high D but maybe my ears are playing tricks on me?