Does anybody know if there’s software that will display the notes on my pc while I play them with my whistle?
Cheers 'n Beers. 
more or less there is here: http://www.digital-ear.com/digital-ear/reviews.asp
but i really can’t see your point. aren’t you better of with one of these:
http://www.bigwhistle.co.uk/shop_results.asp?subcat=17&search=1 
thanks for the links, you see, my point is this: I can’t read notation, but I can take my low D and play a tune or invent one spontaneously. A friend of mine told me I should really write down the notes so he could learn it on his guitar…but I can’t read notes. so there you are. 
let him buy the programe
Why don’t you learn how to read music.It is very simple and would not take you very long to become adept at picking out tunes for various websites and printed collections.
I don’t wish to kick start the sheet v. ear brawl all over again but sheet music is a fine way to get the bones of a tune together.
Ornamentation and phrasing will come with experience.
Slan,
D.
i second dubh, i can’t read music at full speed either, but it sure helps to get your ornamentation right.
you could learn to read music in a few hours…
Yeah. He’s the one with the problem mate, not you Tell him you’re a card-carrying right-wing pure-drop fanatic and if he doesn’t start learning by ear you’ll set da boyz on him. And another thing, we doan need no steenkeeen gittar players doing melody lines! 
Oh how I wish I could but it’s just a blind spot with me. 
Anthea and all three of my lads can read music and have all said it’s a bit like learning a language, you start off slow but eventually learn to think in that language. Unfortunately for me it remains like trying to crack a code letter by letter.
same here dude.
There’s a program I use called Raphsody; it can convert wind instruments into sheet music. I typically use it to convert my piano music into sheet music for other people. If you have a MIDI card in your desktop, it will display the exact notes you play along with your own meter and time signature. It does tons of stuff if you’re interested in that kind of thing, and you don’t need to know how to read music to use most of the fun options.
sounds interesting, website?
Tyler, are you sure about that spelling? To convert a wind instrument on a PC you need a microphone plugged into a sound card plus recording software to save your playing as a digitized (sampled) file. You would then need software that could analyze the digitized file and turn it into a score (or a midi file, practically the same thing for these purposes). I have an application called Spectrogram that will analyze ONE current note, but it cannot create a score.
http://www.visualizationsoftware.com/gram.html
When you refer to MIDI, that is not a wind instrument-friendly environment, unless you buy one of those Yamaha MIDI-controllers that “looks” like a flute. Most MIDI stuff is geared more towards keyboards, although there are some really good guitar-like MIDI-controllers.
djm
Really??
Why would I want anyone to turn my instrument into sheet music??
<sorry - couldn’t resist>
Amar, it’s very simple. Really. It just looks mystifying.
You don’t need to learn to “read music” to do this.
Get 7 little squares of paper and some Scotch tape. Label the holes on your whistle. D is the one at the bottom, then E, F, G, A, B, and an extra one at the top to be C (with all the holes uncovered). Put them on whatever side is easiest for you to see–I’m guessing it’ll be the right side. You might already know the letters that go with the holes.
Now, as you play slowly, simply write down the letters. Some notes will be one “length.” Others will be twice that, etc. Just figure out a way to mark that–the ABC directions tell you.
Voila! You almost have ABC.
To write this as “musical notes,” all you have to do is scribble a dot on the appropriate line or space. Again, just label the lines and spaces. They go in the same order as the holes on your whistle. The length of the note is indicated by using a different type of dot, or a dot on a stick. What’s required for ITM isn’t complicated at all. But, if you get the ABC figured out, you can let software convert it for you.
There may be a little intellectual leap required to start doing this, but if you try it, I think you’ll find it’s not so bad.
http://chiffboard.mati.ca/viewtopic.php?t=34108 
It can be done by recording your whistle onto your PC using TS-AudioToMIDI http://audioto.com
This converts your playing into a MIDI file in real-time.
(it also converts other audio sources, like MP3s)
And then you can use a program like Melody Assistant to convert the Midi file into dots. http://www.myriad-online.com/en/index.htm
I accidentally diverged into refference to my piano music, with which I have MIDI control a-plenty…
Rapsody will use microphone interface.
I’ve been trying to find a website that still carries that software, but I cant seem to find it…it’s possible that they don’t make it anymore.
We used to sell it when I worked for Musician’s Friend, but that’s been a few years ago now.
Tyler, no probs. Gary’s suggestion, AudioToMIDI, looks interesting. Looks like a lot of work to pull polyphonic, but might be great for pulling solo instruments.
djm
Yeah, I’ve not heard of that one before now. I wonder if it works with MIDI2 stuff too…
I haven’t done a lot of conversion stuff for years, so I’m a bit behind. Most of what I do now is simply access the MIDI programs on my laptop via my Ensoniq or Roland when I play with my band…
Hell, that oughta show ya how long it’s been since I’ve bothered to update my equipment… I bought my Ensoniq new, they dont even make Ensoniq anymore, EMu bought em out I think (but thankfully still manufactures hardware for them)
Ha! I’ve still got a Roland MKS-7 Super Quartet, two Yamaha FB-01s, and a Roland U110 (remember 12-bit audio?). I really should clear out my rack, but I have no idea where to keep all the dust.
djm
Here is a site that I came across while doing a search on “Calypso”
Maybe it will help you Amar, or someone else.