hello all, I tried using the search to find this, but only came up with two
dead ends. I heard Ashokan Farewell played on the fiddle last night, and
was wondering if anyone had made a sound clip of this tune on the whistle.
It’s a beautiful tune, and one I would really like to learn. Any help would
be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Turtle
You think it’s beautiful now, but wait until you’ve heard it about 37 trillion times, including the 4 times you’ll have heard it played by competent fiddlers.
The tune is by Jay Ungar, and if you poke around on Amazon or someother site you’ll find a recording.
Get an A whistle for the easiest playing. It can be done on a D, but its not pretty.
Tyg
Yes it is a beauty. Out here in the middle of the Pacific it’s not heard too much so I still enjoy hearing/playing it. There are a few tunes that take a long time to go stale and, for me, this is one of them (although hearing it over an over and over in the Civil War series was a bit much; but I’ve gotten over that).
The fiddlers usually play this in D which makes it go below whistle/flute range so you’ve got to do all this octave switching - not fun - not pretty. So as Tyghress says use an A whistle to play along with the fiddle. You play it on an A whistle as though it were in G and the only messy thing to worry about is one “F natural” fingering.
If you PM me I’ll email you the dots in a Finale file.
Clark
The Bow Triplets do an incredible job on this tune! 
http://www.soundclick.com/pro/view/01/default.cfm?bandID=45728&content=music
Not as incredible perhaps, but if you wanted to hear the tune on the whisle, here a link to a previous post:
It certainly is easier/better to play on an A whistle. On my A whistle, however, hitting the high G at the end of the first “A” part is not a nice sound! Maybe I need a better whistle or better technique. I usually just drop down a note to the E and finish the first “A” part on that note.
That is a very cool site!!!
Thanks!
Turtle,
Check your PMs.