Just looking for for something different, I came across J. S Bachs ‘Minuet in G’
Please, all whistlers who are in a position to do so,
Please, would you put your version on youtube (or whatever) so that I, and possibly other beginners, can see what can be done with such a seemingly simple tune, and, of course, post the link here.
P.S. or harmonica players(Mr Shaw 
) or pipes etc etc
PPS that includes you Nano, MTGuru, Dale and all, oh great ones
Here is a good link for this, and many tunes. 
Just click on the tunes, then click M then scroll down to Bachs Minuet in G. You can view the dots, and listen to it in MIDI or MP3. And tell Greg thanks for a great site.
http://www.tinwhistler.com/index.aspx
I was fortunate enough to come across that site when I first started and downloaded my Christmas carols from here.
I am practicing by my Irish, English and Welsh tunes(sorry haven’t come across a Scottish one I fancy yet)
but just fancied something different for a change.
This seemed like a different choice and although there are some lovely clips on another line I thought this might be interesting to get different musicians actually playing the same tune and possibly not one most people have played.
But thank you all the same 
You’ll probably find a few of the ones you thought were from the England, Ireland or wales are actually Scottish. Try here for starters http://www.nigelgatherer.com/whistle/tut_5/5-1.html
As Nigel says " IT’S GENERALLY ACKNOWLEDGED that the reel is a Scottish invention; the first record of a reel being danced here was in 1591. From Scotland they spread and became very popular in Ireland. Indeed, many Irish reels are in fact Scottish in origin. Such Irish staples such as Paddy Ryan’s Dream , The Flogging Reel, The Youngest Daughter, The Ewe Reel, The Boyne Hunt, Dogs Among the Bushes, Bonnie Kate, The Mason’s Apron, The Money Musk, The Flax In Bloom, Miss McLeod’s, Green Groves of Erin, Lord Gordon’s Reel, The Wind That Shakes the Barley, Rakish Paddy, The Tarbolton, are just a few that are Scots imports."
Wha’s like us - damn few and they’r aw deid…
Of course it’s not really a folk tune per se. It’s from the second “(Clavier) Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach”, and current scholarship apparently points to Christian Petzold, not Bach, as the composer. The BWV lists it in the Appendix #114, as unattributed.
The Breitkopf & Härtel edition below looks close to an Urtext, so it’s probably a good indication of Bach’s manuscript, with phrasing and ornament up to the (keyboard) player. It’s paired with the Minuet in G Minor, which usually means they’re meant to be played together as a single piece with a 3rd repeat once through.
http://imslp.org/wiki/Notebook_for_Anna_Magdalena_Bach_(Bach,_Johann_Sebastian)
Use the “1725” PDF link under “Band 43.2”. The piece is Minuet IV on page 26 of the MS, page 21 of the PDF. The treble line is in soprano clef. Just transpose it down a M3 to read it in G treble clef.
To play it as a baroque minuet on whistle, just apply the the standard tricks of baroque flute/recorder ornamentation and phrasing. As a ITM influenced whistle tune, I guess anything might go.
Then there’s this - which probably did more (in 1965) to popularize the melody than anything before or since.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=im_O06IN9i0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nme_Gujngyc
But are you going to play it record it and post it (or link it)?
Oh for goodness sake just do it yourself…
I need inspiration and more to the point I’m shy!!
I don’t know yet, Pammy. Playing baroque music on a whistle is a kind of parlour trick. And I’m still working on getting a spoon to stick to my nose. 
Try glue - polystyrene cement is not quite as strong as others but for spoons on noses it adds a certain space cadet quality
I wonder if it might interfere with whistling?
“I told you not to put that magnet in your mouth…”
I believe whistle maestra Mary Bergin plays this tune with the folk-Baroque group Dordan on their debut CD Irish Traditional & Baroque Music, although it’s a few years since I’ve heard it.
On Track 1, “From a Little Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach”, they perform “Polonaise in F” multiple times through, with Mary on F whistle. The dots are on page 23 of the PDF I linked to above.
Maybe that’s what you’re thinking of, Simon? I can’t find the Minuet in G on any of the Dordán albums.
Yeah, I know that flageolet was a perfectly good baroque parlor instrument. And its modern whistle incarnation can play and sound quite well, as long as the piece isn’t too chromatic and doesn’t modulate into awkward keys. So the Minuet should work nicely.
Is that you playing MTG???
http://www.youtube.com/my_videos_edit
Here you go. The first and second parts should be played twice.
I never figured out how he played that harpsichord with his feet…
I think you got the link wrong, jim, it goes nowhere useful.
(Well, it would be useful if I had uploaded some videos,
as it’s trying to show me my videos instead of yours.)
Jim’ll get this all figured out in a bit…
what he should’a gave ya
http://www.youtube.com/user/paganserenade
Yes, I recorded that as a lark to demo Jerry Freeman’s Blackbird whistle.
You’ve never heard of the footsichord?
Now thats the cleverest (?) flute playing I’ve ever seen. The last note is still playing after Jims fingers have stopped
Thank you Jim. The idea was to move you lot out of your comfort zone, see what you could do with it and what instruments you like and Jim is the first to appreciate the challenge and come forward to meet it, and a lovely job he has made of it too.