My wife and I have been enjoying our summer, jamming away on the back screened in porch with our whistles. She is a pretty good improviser but it would also be cool to get a hold of some duets. Are there any duet books out there for whistle? If so, what are their names and where can I order them?
My wife and I have had a lot of fun with Jazz for Pennywhistlin’. You might check it out at http://www.twohorns.care4free.net/#Music
The Whistler’s Pocket Companion (with the picture of the little chickie on the cover) has several duets in it. This book goes from simple beginner tunes up through some fairly good intermediate tunes. I got mine from The Whistle Shop. Other than that, many traditional hymns are written in whistle-friendly keys and it wouldn’t be hard to have one person play the Soprano part and the other play the Alto part. Could be quite lovely.
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Try these two books - one is the tune, the other is the harmony - I recommend them highly - go to Ralph Sweet’s site for more information.
Chuck
“The Fifer’s Delight” by Ralph Sweet: Fingering, graded instruction for fife, flute, whistle, or flageolette, plus over 330 tunes, complete with guitar/piano chord symbols for accompaniment. Excellent for any concert pitch instrument; used by many fiddlers, dance bands, and drum corps, 8½ x 11", 81 pages.
“The Fifer’s Delightful Companion” by Carol Greenfield: a collection of harmony parts written to complement “The Fifer’s Delight,” plus a few additional tunes and Christmas carols in two or three parts. Great for adding harmony to a corps, or playing duets with friends; can be adapted to many different instrumental combinations!
The Piper’s Companion Duets and Trios for Northumbrian Small pipes and other instruments. by Derek Hobbs. A series of three books with some very easy duets. Winster Galop Jimmy Allan. Daughter is learning the flute so we get together to play a few of these duets. It’s available from the Bagpipe Museum. Morpeth Northumberland and I think this is the only place to get it. I like it better than the whistlers companion.
On a similar note, does anyone know of any duets for whistle and guitar? A whistle on the melody with guitar on counterpoint and rhythm would sound lovely.
Regards,
Forest
The book Airs for Pairs has some decent duets.