Today, I went to a locale music store to get a baroque recorder(please forgive me). Instead of waiting in line at the register I looked around. Then I saw these tin whistles. So I got one of those too. Matching it with the recorder, it seems to be a middle C. Would you guy’s consider this hi, low, or normal? It looks like a really fun instrument, to learn.
btw I can’t play the recorder neither.
One more thing, after seeing a recent news letter, I’d like to tell you, that spiders live inside guitars also. When they hang from the strings, its funny to watch them vibrate. Ok, easily entertaned. Besides my wife sayed not to kill it, it was so tiny.
Well nice to meet you all.
jeff 
If it’s new, there’s a pretty good chance the key is indicated on the whistle. Look for a decal with a brand name and a single letter, most likely D or C. If there is no decal, give us a quick description of the whistle: metal type and color, mouthpiece (plastic or metal, and color) and total length. We can probably tell you from that.
D whistles are the most common, however in some brands, Cs are also common.
On 2001-09-04 15:16, Spot Beagle wrote:
One more thing, after seeing a recent news letter, I’d like to tell you, that spiders live inside guitars also. When they hang from the strings, its funny to watch them vibrate. Ok, easily entertaned.
jeff >
Spiders in your guitar huh…
Jeff, You are going to fit in here with no problem at all. (My wife would have used an entire can of Raid if she saw a spider hanging from the strings of one of our guitars.)
Blaine
“(My wife would have used an entire can of Raid if she saw a spider hanging from the strings of one of our guitars.)”
I imagine that would take the varnish right off the wood. I was wondering if the spiders vomit when you vibrate them like that. I probably would. Spiders are welcome guests as far as I’m concerned. My wife, on the other hand, waits in ambush in case a spider shows up. Then the life is crushed out of it without remorse. Otherwise, she’s really sweet.
Tony
Ah yes it is a “C”, Sweetone by Clark. Later on I had to get me a “D”, same brand, that’s all we had to choose from. Thesn sat on the sun deck switching between the two making up songs. Spot really didn’t apreciate the higher pitch notes, but he hates it when I blow on blades of grass too. Both the whistles seem really fun.
BTW We couldn’t tell if the spider vomitted, but it did move on. It seems vibrating on the end of a web isn’t a prime housing object for a spider.
jeff
Welcome to the wonderful world of whistling!
Just to confuse you, a D whistle is the same pitch as a soprano recorder, even though the soprano is called a C instrument. It’s fundamental scale is actually in D, with the lowest C note just added on on the bottom.
If you don’t play either instrument yet, you may want to pick one or the other and concentrate in it for a while. The fingerings are similar, but not exactly the same, and may be confusing for a total newbie.
Welcome Jeff,
A spider in a guitar would live a very frustrating life. Their instincts would tell them that each vibration was food getting stuck in their web. You might not have spider vomit, but rather spider siliva from all the made dashes up to the web to find it empty of fly or knat.
Glad to see another guitar player join in the wonderous would of whistledom. From your post, I’d agree with your priorites. You didn’t start with learning tunes, the differences between jigs and slip jigs, rolls, crans, ornamentation techniques. Rather you went went out on the porch and took time to do what most important …
On 2001-09-05 07:14, brewerpaul wrote:
Welcome to the wonderful world of whistling!
thank you
Just to confuse you, a D whistle is the same pitch as a soprano recorder, even though the soprano is called a C instrument. It’s fundamental scale is actually in D, with the lowest C note just added on on the bottom.
That makes since, Ive had recorders laying around for a while (the kind they have at the “everythings a dollar” store). This whistle seems so much more fun, besides the comical aspect built into it.
On 2001-09-05 11:11, LeeMarsh wrote:
Welcome Jeff,
I’d agree with your priorites. You didn’t start with learning tunes, the differences between jigs and slip jigs, rolls, crans, ornamentation techniques. Rather you went went out on the porch and took time to do what most important …
Thank you,
the whistle makes it so easy to make up little songs. To be perfectly honest, I have a hard enough time defining the difference between rock, blues, and country.
jeff