Hello everybody. My name is Jessi and I am a 17 year old girl from Australia. I am only just starting to learn to play the tin-whistle, so I am not very informed of all of the terminology and things…please bare with me! 
Hi Jessi and Welcome to C&F! This group is really a great bunch and can usually answer questions without being too complicated!
I use the search option ALOT for question because most of them have been answered before. (Plus there are alot of strange things in this forum that are a good source of entertainment!)
Best of luck with your whistling!
Deb
Welcome. Kevin “DazedinLA” has developed a web site aimed at getting new people initiated to the whistle. It’s at http://www.geocities.com/whistleannex/index.html
He has a section called the Chiffboard Matrix, which is a beginners’ guide to this forum.
Hello, Jessi! Welcome to the board!
Slainte,
BB
Hi!
What type of music are you hoping to play?
My sister (aged 19) is in Oz at the moment and she says that there’s a great irish trad music scene with loads of young people - she plays fiddle, and meets loadsa people wherever she goes - she’s in Melbourne at the moment.
Enjoy your whistle playing - that’s what all kinds of music are for!
Jo.
Hi! Wow, what a fast response! Um, firstly, thankyou all for being so warm! Thankyou for the suggestions, and to answer a few questions…I hope to play traditional type music. I love Irish melodies, they are either really cute and upbeat or really emotional and expressive, either way…I love it! Um, I have a little bit of sheet music, but I’ve been trying to figure out things by ear until now…to moderate success I’d say. I don’t think I have the tunes perfect, but I have managed to get the basic gist.. Um, I am actually living in Sydney..or rather, near Sydney..
Welcome! I’m a new whistle player too, I just started a couple of weeks ago. Since I started trying to learn, a friend of mine has gotten interested and bought a whistle. I got a whistle for my mom for Mother’s Day, and I have ordered another one to put in to a care package for our deployed troops. I get so much enjoyment out of it and I just want everyone else to join in!
It’s very addicting, you know!
Kim
Tiny Jessi, I can put you in touch with Uilleann pipe maker Ian Mackenzie who lives in Blackheath, in the Blue Mountains. He should have some information about Irish Traditional music in and around the Sydney areas.
I welcome ye to the board! And it’s quite alright about the question-thing. As far as I’m concerned, ‘there is no stupid question; only stupid answers.’
welcome to the message board and on-line whistle community! I am fairly new here myself, so don’t feel too stupid for being new or asking questions - you’re not the only one glad that you are here!
(I am just dying to visit Australia some day!)
[ This Message was edited by: LadyAshling on 2002-05-25 15:13 ]
Hi, Tiny Jessi, and welcome to the board. I’m just a beginner too, and joining this board was the best thing I did for myself. Be sure to look around the C&F website - it’s lots of fun and a great source of information.
What kind of a whistle do you have? Do you play any other instruments?
Hello Jessi!
Welcome to the board!!!
The people on here are SO nice and very helpful. You’ll have a blast here - I have!!!
I will attempt to answer everyone’s welcome individually to show my appreciation of your kindness…
Kim in Tulsa: - I know it is an addictive instrument! I can see myself becoming an obsessed lunatic shortly! My friends are already sick of hearing me go on and on and making them listen to “diddley diddley” songs…and my family is swapping jokes like “what’s the difference between an onion and a tin whistle? …nobody cries when you cut up a tin-whistle!” etc.
Tony: - Wow, I used to live in the Blue Mountains. It would be wonderful if you could put me in contact with Ian Mackenzie! Thankyou so very much! My email is Scullyjrd@aol.com thankyou thankyou thankyou!
Whistling Elf: - Thankyou for your warm hello and welcome. I really like your screen name…it is very cute!
Ladyashling: - Thank you too for your warm welcome. As for visiting Australia…it’s okay I suppose…I personally would die to go to Ireland!
Kendra: - I have three inexpensive tin whistles which I got for twelve dollars each. Um, i don’t know exactly what they’re called though. They are the smaller ones with the plastic fipple (is that the correct name for the mouthpiece? …trying to catch on! Bare with me…first technical difficulty!) 
Sara: - I can tell by all of these replies that this group is a great bunch! I’m so glad to ave joined this forum!
Thankyou all! xoxo - Jessi
Hi Tiny Jessi and welcome!
Whistlers of the world unite!
It’s fun to have contacts the world over whose common interest is a pice of plastic & metal (usually) only 12 inches long.
Haste to the Wedding was one of my first jigs, and it’s the last in a 3 jig set I practise regularly!
It’s good that you are learning by ear, but can read sheet music when needed. I won’t go into the whole ear/eye debate here but if you can copy the sounds you hear you will go a long way on the whistle!
all the best!
On 2002-05-27 05:34, Tiny Jessi wrote:
They are the smaller ones with the plastic fipple (is that the correct name for the mouthpiece? …trying to catch on! Bare with me…first technical difficulty!)
The fipple is the plug. Actually, it’s the part of the mouthpiece on the underside of the windway:
Mouthpiece cross-section:
___________ <-Fipple-
Walden
[ This Message was edited by: Walden on 2002-05-27 07:53 ]
Hey Jessi!
Welcome to the WWW (wonderful world of whistlery)
If you are looking for sheet music, the easiest and best resource Ive found is H. Norbeck’s ABC page, located at
http://home1.swipnet.se/~w-11382/abc.htm
ABC is a musical notation program that allows sheet music for tunes to be sent over the web. There are tune compendiums more extensive than Norbecks, but that can be a disadvantage…too many of the same tune to choose from. Norbecks has most of the basic “essential” tunes (1,625 in all), and to my limited experience, all are good versions of the tunes.
I hope this helps.
Kev
The](http://www.geocities.com/whistleannex/index.html%22%3EThe) Whistle Annex, Home of the Chiffboard Matrix
[ This Message was edited by: DazedinLA on 2002-05-27 08:28 ]
Hi Jessi,
A warm welcome from the other side of the globe. This place is a genuine oasis for a struggling whistler such as myself…
Welcome Tiny Jessi! It’s great to have another terrific kid on board!
Hey, Jessi. Glad you could join us–always good to have some new talent on the board.
Tom
thankyou for the link to the sheet music site…sorry, I didn’t write your screen name down so i could thank you by name…I forgot. But thankyou all the same. Wow, you are all so nice! I’m not saying I expected otherwise, I just didn’t know it was so friendly in here! A very nice suprise!