I normally get two full octaves on my D whistle and then by accident the other day I got an E after the 2 octaves. Am I missing something here? Is there fingeringing for a 3rd Octave that I’ve never learned or is it very difficult to play 3 octaves. My D Dixon definately only does 2 but my Sindt did the E.
selkie
Silly me. 
I went to the Stained Glass fingering site and found some more fingerings for the 3rd Octave but they are very very hard to play. The last A, B and C# are awfully squeaky and ear splitting. I’m not sure that I have seen any whistle music with those notes in it. Unless of course I can be enlightened. 
third octave D is oxx ooo… third octave E xxo xxo… third octave F# xox xxx… third octave G xxx ooo. You have to give the whistle some serious breath to get these notes and If your ears are tender don’t bother!
I personally have never heard the upper F# or G used and when you hear them you will know why.
Good practice for control though.
Dave.
I have heard recordings of folks playing fife tunes on Clarke whistles in the 3rd octave.
I’ve played up to the A (o x x | x x o) but don’t think I’d care to go higher.
–James
I played a 3rd octave G on my copeland…once, I should have known better than to try it indoors, ouch
I understand.. I had it at 2nd G
/Peter
if it gets too squeaky, then remember there’s enough musicians with bad hearing.
i train my ears but i don’t torture them.
That explains a lot. My daughter bought herself a piccolo for xmas and it sounds good. I’m seriously tempted to buy one of the Tony Dixon Piccolos as there are a couple of orchestral pieces we play in the Brass and woodwind band that a piccolo sounds great in. That was how I found I could play highE.
When you get into the third octave, various whistles due to tonehole place, bore size, etc.. will each perform or perform differently up there. Fingering will vary a lot.
Boehm Flutes and piccolos will go over their third octaves and then some because they were deliberately designed for it.
Weird though. Just been playing a concert c keyed flute for 11 weeks and already way up into third octave. Guess the quality of whistle helps.
Our bouzouki/tenor banjo guy plays fife tunes he played in a fife and drum band on his Clarke Sweetone. Ear-piercing!
I live in San Francisco, and I find that if I play outdoors when it is windy, either 1) the whistle won’t play at all or 2) it plays in the 2nd & 3rd octaves instead of the 1st & 2nd. It’s very odd. I play no differently but the wind will sometimes just bump up the entire tune one whole octave.
Anyone else ever experienced this?
The Boehm Flute has a very narrow diameter in comparison to it’s length.
If you made a comparable whistle, you would have a narrow bore whistle. Narrow bore whistles, for the most part are softer than wide bore whistle. Wide reduces octave range but increases volume. On top of all this, the other factor is workmanship.
BTW - I’ve noticed the laryingitus problem that whistles have when played outdoors in windy conditions, maybe this calls for the design of an outdoor whistle. “Wind Whistles”? Something to shield the fipple from heavy winds.
Well, that gives some work to the R&D departments of several whistlemakers for now. 
All D whistles play a full 15 octaves, unfortunately only dogs and certain sea going mammals can hear the last 13 of those…
Loren
I find it easiest to find the third octave on my Water Weasel high C. I don’t even need the alternate fingerings until I get to the G. But I only use anything higher then the D in one song. On the other hand, my Overton low G refuses to hit the third octave. The third D is as high as it goes, and for that I have to use oxx xxx, the oxx ooo fingering doesn’t sound either.
Seth