Anybody have any secrets on this note? Is it blown hard, soft inbetwwen? I can never get it to sound right. This is my new weekly dilemma 
You’re playing a D whistle, yes? In that case, all it should take is removing all fingers from the tone holes (unless you want to keep the bottom one on for balance)…you should get a C# without any effort at all. My experience is that it doesn’t take any different kind of breath from the note below it (B) or the note above it (D).
If it’s actually C nat. that’s giving you troubles (remember that, in the D major scale, C and F are sharped, and these sharps are built into a D whistle, so if it requires a “special” fingering, it’s C nat.), the problem may be how your particular whistle wants that note fingered. Some favor 0XX 000, others seem happiest with 0XX X0X, and still others will only give you a good C nat. if you half-hole the top (B) tone hole. You have to kind of play around to find which works best for your particular whistle.
Some whistles do require you to blow a little harder or softer to get a particular note in tune, but I’ve never had one that required special treatment for C#.
Redwolf
i hate to look at directions, but sometimes going to the whistle maker/manufactuer’s web site and checking out how they suggest you play the notes actually works.
i think avoidance of looking at maps, directions, etc is a male thing. you know, real men don’t need instructions . . . we just need lots of time to learn from our mistakes. that’s called experience. and as a real man, i have lots of experience.
Well, playing it 0XX 000 makes a HUGE differance. I guess as u said it depends on the whistle. Thats a bunch, now my Old Spice jingle sounds normal…lol
I saw the title and thought, wow, they’re discussing .NET development on the whistle board…
Actually, on most whistles that would be a C natural. It’s call cross-fingering.
The D whistle plays in the scale of D, two sharps, i.e. D E F# G A B C#
Some whistles will play a nice C natural at 0xx000 others at 0xx0x00 or 0xxx00 and some you just have to half-hole as o00000.
Edited to change “half whole” to “half-hole” - I must’ve been brain dead yesterday…
Actually, lately that would be more likely than discussing a whistling C#
BTW, I’ve been a programmer for twenty years and I have to say that C# is the first thing out of Gate’s shop that I actually like.
What really surprised me was that it is blisteringly fast for some things. I wrote a utility to do some (actually, thousands of) replacements in huge (1 meg plus) ABC text files and it was so fast I thought that it wasn’t doing anything (it was a CL utility and I would hit the enter key and instantly get another CL prompt). I couldn’t believe my eyes when I checked the folder and the output file was there.
A utility written in VC++ 6 that did very similar things took several seconds to process the same file.
I still program all my Windows apps in plain old C. No #, No ++
When I saw the thread. I figured someone was looking for a C# whistle.
That’s a C nat (assuming you’re playing a D whistle)…C# is what you get with all the fingers up (the scale of D major has two sharps: C# and F#. When you play a D whistle straight up the scale, without any “special” fingering, the F# and C# are built in).
Glad it works!
Redwolf