Our fledgling CCE chapter plans to offer some workshops this summer.
A Whistle workshop is one we plan on. Now I know that learning is very different from teaching and that it often takes more to planning to teach than to learn.
Any suggestions?
Obviously we’d start with a Beginner’s workshop…one or two hours long.
For those that have offered such workshops before, do you have whistles on hand to sell or do you point people to the nearest music shop to buy them there?
I went to a Bill Ochs beginner workshop, and he had whistles (Feadog?) for sale at a very reasonable price for those that didn’t have their own whistles.
You might want to choose a good whistle tutor, like Bills, with a book and CD and use that as the basis for your class. You could start the newbies out with the first lesson or two and then they could use the book and CD to continue on their own. I’d suggest taking firm reservations for the class, and include the cost of the book and whistle in the class fee. Once you know the number of students, you could order from a wholesaler.
Thanks…
Yes, I had planned on students pre-registering and paying in advance!
Also thinking of contacting the main (largest) music store in town and see if I can work out some kind of discount deal for the whistles we would provide in the workshop. Hmmm, I wonder if I could get them to “co-sponsor” the workshop. 
Do NOT stand in front of the class, name off tunes until you find one no one already knows, then write out the notes on a chalk board like this
GGA CDC BF#A DDG
And then play it together several times so everyone can learn it.
I didn’t like it that way. That was two years ago. Maybe I’d do better now.