Curious, does anyone primarily use their Low Whistle? ...

Instead of their tin whistle?

Juuuust wondering!

Cheers and Happy New Years!
Armand

I only occasionally play my low, actually.

I primarily play my low whistles. I currently have low G, F, D, C and Bass A that I play.

I play my low whistles almost exclusively now. My Hoover and Overton low D’s get most of the playing time, but I also play the low E, F, and G. About the only high whistle that gets much playing time is a Hoover Bb.

I play my D and Eb whistles most of the time. I prefer the sound of a high whistle and I don’t have the lung power for low whistle. I have enough different whistles in D that I can pick a sound to fit my mood.


Ron

All low, all the time. :slight_smile: From a low G down to a Bass A, and working with a Bingamon D Basswhistle (1 octave below a low D), I stay at the bottom end of the whistle world. I do play the higher ones, but the type of music I’m most into calls for the lower voices.

Cal

I also primarily play low whistles, my Overton and Copeland low Ds.

Deb

Depends who I am playing with I pretty much only use the high whistle for sessions. :smiley:

Thats all I play although I do play several soprano’s. I focus most of my playing on my Chieftain Gold Low F, but do have Chieftain Lows in A, Bb,D,Eb,G.

I play a lot of low, but usually whatever suits the tune I’m playing at the time. Sometimes a low(er) whistle will spice up a tune I’ve always played on my high D even more than trying to vary the bejesus out of it (I do think though that my new high D I just got is the finest I’ve ever played and have indeed been playing it a lot lately!). In short, whatever suits the music - exploring different keys, especially what would be considered ‘exotic’ in the IrTrad world, is a lot of fun! :slight_smile:

Yes, lows are where it’s at for me. Occasionally I will pick up a higher voiced whistle, but it just doesn’t reach my soul like the lows.

I can appreciate a well played high whistle, on a great tune though. But I would still prefer to hear a slow air on a low whistle or flute first.

Unless I am in a Mary Bergin mood, I play the Low D.

With my old Chieftain, I used to play my low about 5-10% of the time. It just couldn’t handle the faster tunes. With my new range Chieftain, I play the low about 70% of the time at home. At session, I still only play the low maybe 15% of the time.

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Never owned one..always been into GenD,Eb and F.

Reels,Jigs and Hornpipes. Up high,dipping and swooping around the place.Great.

Ebs a great key for airs.

Always felt that for all the Soul in Low Whistles,there’s no Spirit.

Slan,
D.

Since I’m learning new tunes and improving old ones with my teacher, I almost exclusively play a soprano D, and almost exclusively my Burke black tip. Maybe once a week I’ll pick up the Burke Viper Low D and my Copeland G (just to hear that inspirational voice).

Philo

I spend a lot of time with low G and F; less with D. I usually play low Eb or C only when a particular tune calls for it.

For dance music, I mainly play high D and Eb. I tend to play some high and some low most days.

I ony started whistling two months ago, at 65, and was only interested in a low whistle…got the overtyon low D to learn on…real hard work…have since bought a Chieftan F and love both whistles…but…in my search for a really good sounding high D have just started searching for a wooden one. So early on, and still learning but I have the bug.Do love the low whistle sound though.Les.

Les Cruttenden all I can say is that inspirational to me, to start at 65 is great.:slight_smile:

Is it incorrect to call a low whistle a tin whistle too?

Anyway, no, I primarily play my little tin whistle because the low one is harder on my tiny hands. :sniffle:

i would say nobody would use the term tinwhistle for a low whistle, but, however, it isn’t incorrect (in my opinion) to use that term for low whistles as well.

Me, i practically only play my low whistles now.