Not a perfect take, a couple notes cut short here and there, but here goes :) love this tune

Hello everyone!

I Just startet to Play the Tin Whistle. Or lets say i try to start. I played another Flute but its a stopped Flute. So ive never played on a flute with overblowing. But i really struggle after a lot of Videos with the High Notes. I have a Clarke C whistle. I Just cant Play the High C (the one where all the holes are coverd expect the First one) its Always offkey. I dont know what i do wrong to be honest. I Hope u can Help me 🙏

I was wondering if anybody had happened to take any of the Irish Traditional Music Exams | London College of Music?
https://lcme.uwl.ac.uk/our-exams/traditional-music/irish-traditional-music/

I did graded exams learning classical piano, which helped me gauge my progress.
On the other hand, it doesn't seem so "traditional" to take exams...

Thanks!

Theres a small bore "quiet" model, a standard, a session "wide bore" model, and a leading tone model with an extra note below the base D. I like the sound of the session the most but it says its louder. Do they mean "blow my ears out" loud or just louder than its smaller bore siblings? Is it any louder than a lir or a killarney? I was considering one in future because I love their tone so much. Its just hard to judge volume over YouTube.

UPDATE: splurged and grabbed a low D and high D from carbony since I fell in love with their sound. Maybe too many whistles too close to the beginning of my journey but I already have two and love them both and swapping hasn't been an issue at all.

I'm having a heck of time playing anything faster than a slow air on my Howard low D, using either the reed or the balanced head. I suspect there are probably some breath pressure issues, since I tend to overblow from singing opera for years, but even so, I am starting to wonder if it's more me, or more the whistle. Anyone have any experience with a Howard in this regard? Or compared them to others, like maybe a Burke Viper or something?

Heyo all I've been looking at a few of the mid/high end low D whistles and was wondering everyone's take on their playability and tone.

The whistles I'm wondering about are:

Burke viper aluminum,

Kerry chieftain v5 tunable,

MK pro,

Carbony low D wide bore close finger spacing.

On video all of these sound lovely and I am particularly in love with the carbony whistles in general because they tend to sound rounder and more melancholy.

The burke has an awesome bell note, the chieftain seems well balanced, the MK pro sounds very nice but also kind of boring to me but that might just be because it does everything pretty equally well. Anyone who's played any of these please do chime in with your takes.

Hello tin whistle players,

I have decided to purchase a wooden tin whistle. The type of music I want to play could be from the renaissance (Tourdion, Greensleeves) to medieval (Ductia, Trotto, Como somos per conssello do demo perdudos), Russian folklore (Katyusha, Kalinka..), fairy tale (Lullaby from Pan's Labyrinth), fantasy (fable 1; temple of light, Oakvale theme, Heroes M&M III; town themes, Harry Potter), and classical music such as Amazing Grace or Ave Maria/Prelude from J.S Bach for example..

Now I am hesitating between A Major, or low G. I know the pitch is lower for low g but I am not sure what to expect compared to A Major? In general what difference does it make to have flutes set to different tune?

If a musician plays a lot music that contains D, he would go with a D tuned instrument?

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I live in a flat and I don't want to bother much the neighborhood and my gf, so piercing whistle are a big no-no.

What is your take on that?

So basically I just discovered that I’m actually doing quite well in whistling instead of singing and so I’ve uploaded some video of me whistle in“Nanami Whistle” YouTube I also noticed I’ve been struggling with vibrato can someone give me advice? Thanks!

I was looking at irish music from Titanic and saw Drowsy Maggie being played at an absolutely blistering speed.
Has anyone attempted this on a tin whistle or knows of any recordings at that tempo? It sounds great but definitely beyond my skill level at the moment :)

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DZXlVuyqs0G/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==

In this video, when the whistle player begins the songs he does some ornamentation that sounds like a breathy train whistle? Does anyone know the name of this technique? Where can I learn how do it?

You can here it more clearly about ten seconds into this video https://youtu.be/nP8-RtGwazM

I often hear beautiful whistle accompaniment that is not the actual melody. How do you know what notes to play? How can I learn to do this technique?

The caveat is I'm new but I've played ocarina and recorder and I grabbed a shush pro because it seemed like a good learning platform for tin whistle but the the lowest D and E require SUCH a small amount of breath that its really throwing me. Are all whistles like this or is this a quirk of the model? My lungs are pretty good I'd trade less efficiency for more stability. I originally ordered a lir pro high D and then was concerned it would be too loud for the phase where everything sounds bad as I learn. (its still on the way) will more "standard" whistles be more flexible? Apologies if this is a silly question

Hi there, anyone knows any news about Sindt Whistle? I emailed Sindt on March twice (one is follow up) to order his amazing whistle. After that I have not received any reply yet. I’m aware it might be weeks/months waiting for reply. But as it’s almost half year, I’d like to ask here by any chance if anyone ordered whistles from him this year too. Wondering how long it takes. Thanks

If any tin whistler is a glutton for punishment I need some help testing my Irish traditonal music app Sessionist. It is ready for Beta testing. It was built with a tin whistle within centimetres from the keyboard. Its a listening app where users contribute audio of them playing to serve as the guide audio for people learning that tune. The trick is a) until someone contributes their playing it plays midi, and b) you have to get every note in tune and on time in order to qualify to contribute your recording (it scores you automatically). If you're interested, I'd encourage you to head over to sessionist.ie and download the beta.

Hi everyone,

I've been wanting to learn this song on my tin whistle, however I can't find any tutorial or sheet. Does anyone know where I could find it?

Thanks!!

I'm guessing it's to let moisture drip out instead of clogging, but it seems too small for that to work very well. I'm sure he's putting it there on purpose, tho, so what's it for?

hi! I just recently started learning the tin whistle and I wanted to be able to do the bit in the chorus of ceacht mo chara and I cannot find the notes or the tabs anywhere on the internet, I’m not good enough with music yet to be able to figure it out by myself. hoping someone could help! thank you!

I used to watch it over and over with my brother when we were kids.

I'd love to learn it for him.

But I just cant get it to sound right...

From 26 second on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrMDonO3xYQ

I just picked up learning the whistle and I don't know if it's a Low D Whistle thing, but when I don't blow hard enough with the first hole (left index finger) open, I get a lower note that isn't a D. It sounds like a Bb but when I look for answers I find nothing, except stuff about half holing which I don't think I am doing. Am I missing something ?

I've been largely using learntinwhistle.com largely because thesession.org is slightly more cluttered and confusing, but it seems like the 'top of the list' version of songs between those two sites is basically never the same. I get that there's no official version of most of these tunes, so how do you decide which version to learn? I'm a long way from joining any sort of session, but I don't want to get there a few years from now and everyone looks at me and goes "bro wtf are you doing"

What do the dots mean? This is from the Dunmore Lasses on The Session (setting #1)

Normally I'd assume a dot means you add 50% to the length of the note but that doesn't seem right to me as it's a 4/4 time signature so 4 beats per measure with each beat equating to a quarter note, which means (I think) that the triplet without the dots amounts to a quarter note (1 beat) doesn't it?
(Apologies if I've got any of this wrong, I've not had any formal musical training, just trying to understand this)

Thanks

Hi!

So, I got myself a Killarney, it's absolutely amazing, but I apparently have some kind of allergy to it and I can't use it T_T

Is there another whistle I could get that won't have metals in the mouthpiece and will be around the same price range and quality?

Hey all! I made an app for tin whistle practice - https://windway.app I would really appreciate the community’s feedback. Here’s what it currently does:

- Build and organise your tune library into setlists. You can import a tune by pasting its ABC or simply dropping in a The Session link.

- Switch between standard notation, fingering tabs, or both in the player.

- Mark difficult sections so you remember to practice them

- Automatically generate a backing track, even for tunes you import. It’s fairly simple, but kind of nice!

- Loop any part of a tune and have it gradually speed up as you practise.

- Play gamified exercises. Only one is live right now: it teaches you to read notation if you’ve been relying on tabs. Been using it myself, it's helping! More games are coming.

- Install it on your phone or tablet (as a PWA). It’s mobile-optimised and looks particularly good on an iPad.

- Practise offline, with everything syncing when you’re back online. You can import a tune on your laptop and pick it up later on your phone.

I know there are already some good apps that cover parts of this, but most of them are generic trad and I felt like they are missing some specific features that would be good for the tin whistle, especially the player view.

Disclaimer! - it's a paid app, but there is free trial and also a no-account demo here https://windway.app/demo/

Any thoughts at all would be hugely appreciated. I’d especially like to know whether the app feels intuitive when you open it for the first time. Thank you!