I am totally brand new to the tin whistle so I’m asking the typical question of a begginer,
Which tin whistle to buy I have heard a lot about both Clark and Feadog.
I don’t want one that sounds tinny or like a recorder,
I know I have to learn and practice but I don’t want it sounding like a dog call either.
Please advice me what to get and best practices.
Cheers,
Lord Gary
Ahhhhhhhhhh! The pre-WOAD ramblings of a newbie whistler. Er, a , but, oh never mind, as being a “newbie” just might not have that much to do with the matter.
Lord Gary, enjoy each whistle for whatever it may offer you. Welcome to C & F, enjoy the journey, and given your longing for a more perfect whistle, open your wallet and lend your support to whistlesmiths around the globe as you search for that “special” tube / sound.
Good to have another join the fringe! 
Cheers Mate,
Cayden
It’s a tin whistle. It’s supposed to sound tinny! 
I think you’ll find the Feadog easier to learn on. Unless you do some tweaks, the Clarke can be very breathy and hard to control. It can be a really nice whistle though and both of them are inexpensive enough that you might want to buy both.
Good luck-- you’re in for a lot of fun and personal satisfaction.
How wonderful. When I started, I got a couple of whistles by different makers and in different keys. I keep my whistles all over the place, including my car, so that I have something to do when I have to wait. Do not even think about whistling and driving. That can kill someone.
Oh Lordy… welcome to the whistle forum. 
It doesn’t matter what whistle you begin with just get one in your hands and play it often. Have fun with it. You’ll know when its time for another whistle. Lots of listening and lots of practice is the only way to go.
Welcome 
Personally I would skip the Clark and Feadog and go for a Freeman tweaked generation or mellow dog!
I could also highly recommend a Mack Hoover white cap. You can buy a Feadog whistle to get the tube then order a Hoover white cap and enjoy it for the rest of your life. Seriously
http://praisewhistlers.org/mackhooverwhistles/
Cheers!
Nate
Wecome to the forum and welcome to the fun!
I too would recommed Jerry Freeman whistles as being very forgiving of n00bs.
Mack Hoover is also excellent. I own many of both makers products.
Most of us have gone through dozens of whistle looking for the ONE.
But I still play my Mellowdog on a regular basis.
Beware all who enter here-
Whistles are a gate way drug that lead to flutes, Uillean Pipes, concertinas, and other
fates too horible to mention. 
Oh oh, another one just as crazy as me! Lord Gary, I have just received my first whistle in the post and am about to embark on that journey. And I have already experienced cravings to get a flute and (gasp!) even a concertina, just like maki said! Curse you, Niall Vallely!
Board member bogman (who I suspect might be a rather famous piper) directed me to this great resource: http://tinwhistler.blogspot.com/. I am going to make good use of these videos. Happy whistling!
Wow thanks for all the replys this is a great site with amazing people I’m also glad I decided on the whistle over the flute flute seems very hard.BTW it looks like I might be looking into the tilbury whistle looks like it will last a long time and I have. Alot of practice.
Cheers,
Lord G
If you happen to be interested in the Freeman Mellow Dog, as suggested early in the thread, I have the D & C set for sale at https://forums.chiffandfipple.com/t/fs-freeman-obriain-dixon-whistles/87226/1
The fingering for the whistle is transferrable for the flute flute. Some people get lucky and don’t have much of a problem developing a sound. Other people have to work long and hard to get a sound out of a flute. I was a little bit lucky.
Interestingly you can get some fun and playable flutes for not too much money.
Doug Tipples flutes and Dixon Flutes are both quite nice. Less than $100 new and
$50-70 used.
I was able to get a decent enough starter embrouchre but had hand issues.
You can get great starter flutes for $400-500 new, and 50-80% used.
Flutes are just so much fun, and when you (finally) get a nice tone, really
hard to put down. Danger, DANGER, DANGER!!
Just keep it fun.
Okay, I just went to the Tipple site and now have a nice healthy fixation on getting one of his black 3-piece D flutes. At least I won’t be completely at sea because I played flute for a while and even some shakuhachi, and can get a decent (ha!) sound.
I’ve GOT to stop reading these informative, helpful posts!!! 
Jee, wow, I just think I know want to play and I get even more confused I thought it would be impossible for me With ADHD to play a flute way too complicated ( I have no musical background so I would play the whistle and now they both look good. I really need to ake my mind up and buy one or the other, I’m either going to but a tony Dixon,tilbury or susato whistle or maybe one of the cheaper flutes I need to make up my mind I’m not usually this undecided.
I just want to enjoy learning and making music kind of like meditation and therapy lol
Im glad I found this site it’s a good one to make this kind of decision.
Cheers,
Lord G
Start on a decent high d whistle.
PM sent…
My favourite D whistle has long been the Feadog I’ve been playing since around 1980.
Just did a gig last Sunday where I played for an hour with cello, violin, and keyboard and that Feadog blended perfectly. It has just the right tone (IMHO), amazingly sweet high notes, but the low notes though quiet aren’t wimpy.
I tried a Freeman Tweaked Feadog D and it played remarkably like my old one. So without hesitation, if I started out on the whistle today, that’s what I would buy.
I’ve tried most of the high-end whistles out there but, so far, I’ve not tried one that I would trade for my Feadog. (Well… just maybe the Sindt…)