{"items": [{"author": "Todd", "source_link": "https://plus.google.com/112947709146257842066", "anchor": "gp-1337391635069", "service": "gp", "text": "Artistic license?", "timestamp": 1337391635}, {"author": "Alex", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/442058592471555?comment_id=442084382468976", "anchor": "fb-442084382468976", "service": "fb", "text": "Maybe he's only covering a hole with the top finger? Then there would be no more holes than a pennywhistle.", "timestamp": "1337394019"}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/442058592471555?comment_id=442098725800875", "anchor": "fb-442098725800875", "service": "fb", "text": "@Alex: pennywhistle is a two-hand instrument.  The one-hand version is the three-hole pipe.  Covering holes at the bottom as (almost) no effect when there are still open holes at the top.", "timestamp": "1337395679"}, {"author": "Alex", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/442058592471555?comment_id=442110815799666", "anchor": "fb-442110815799666", "service": "fb", "text": "Well right. But if you were holding something else in one hand, and you just needed to LOOK like you were playing to the untrained eye, you could hold a pennywhistle covering just the bottom hole (quite comfortably), and it would look like this painting. Alternatively, the artist may have gotten it wrong.", "timestamp": "1337397511"}, {"author": "Michael", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/442058592471555?comment_id=442161959127885", "anchor": "fb-442161959127885", "service": "fb", "text": "In this case, I think the artist got it wrong.  The ropes on the drum aren't right, either.", "timestamp": "1337405880"}]}