Hi there. I just started playing the tin whistle. I made up a little tune and am trying to write the notes down, but I can’t find this certain note anywhere. The whistle is in the key of D and I need to know what note it is when you just hold down your finger on the 2nd note from the top, all other fingers off.
Welcome to you, fldrummergurl. I am at a loss to help you. As far as I know, the finger position you describe does not exist. If you are in the key of D, will you tell us what note you wish to play, please?
Best to you.
Byll
It depends on the whistle but I suspect you’re getting a Cnatural and are playing in the key of G, the second main key the D whistle is capable of. Normally, your fingering won’t give an accurate Cnat. Try oxx ooo, i.e. fingers covering the second two holes. Cnat can also be played by half covering the top hole.
If I’m understanding correctly, that fingering is what I use when I want to get a sharpened C-natural. Sometimes that feels right for tunes in D mixolydian…
It’s a lazy C. Somewhere in between C# (all fingers off), and C natural (often played as OXX-OOO) .
Hi there. I just started playing the tin whistle. I made up a little tune and am trying to write the notes down, but I can’t find this certain note anywhere. The whistle is in the key of D and I need to know what note it is when you just hold down your finger on the 2nd note from the top, all other fingers off.
Yep. In this case, and depending on the OP’s actual whistle and tone hole configuration, somewhere in the neighborhood of “C-half-sharp”.
Depending on the scale & mode of the tune in question, it could just be an ordinary note. (But I am assuming that the OP isn’t dealing with anything quite so exotic…)
As to how to write the note on paper, look here under “Microtonal Notation”. You’ll be wanting the symbol over on the left, the “half-sharp sign”. That’s but one way of writing it. I tend to use a vertical line above (or below) a note that I want to slightly sharpen or slightly flatten.
“C-half-sharp”.
Better known also as the C supernatural or the C neutral
Thank you so much everyone for your help. 
Wasn’t it Alasdair Fraser who came up with that term?
Don’t know who started it, but I’m pretty sure the first time I heard it it was off of Tommy Martin.
C natural
oxx oox
oxx xox
You can try these, the ones I usually use. The bottom one is my usual uilleann pipe C natural which works on most whistles too.