It seems to skip to the upper octave way too easily, even when i am playing a scale!
Could this be just down to the fact i was playing a sweetone before, which had to be blown much harder? or is this a common thing with this make ?
thx 
I have a Walton too , blue head Re on the label, no problems once I got familiar with it , maybe a lttle bright if you regularly play a Sweetone.
D
Itâs getting to me! 
I think it must be my blowing, as its fine for a moment, the note sounds lovely, then SHREEK!!! it jumps againâŚ
Itâs almost certainly your technique. Remember, donât âblowâ into the whistleâŚjust breath gently into it. Experiment one note at a time until you have a feel for just how much breath you need to give it to get a good tone without jumping.
Redwolf
Yep, the Waltonâs a different beast. I think I made a thread like this when I started and Peter (rightfully) pointed out that it was the whistler, not the whistle. Keep at it. You can shout into the Sweetone and it will still sound about right, need to be a little more careful with the Walton IMHO.
Iâm tempted to put it away and just keep on playing the Sweetone until i am improved as a player. it seems a bit beyond me ATM to get any consistency with it. And it seems very LOUD playing it indoors, which iâm sure the neighbours hate 
Itâs odd, âbreathingâ into it sends it into the upper octave, whereas âblowingâ plays the lower one.. 
I do feel your questions are premature. Play all your whistles almost everyday for 6 months. Be open to your own experiences. Play and play. Sick of ITM one day. Then just doodle about on it that day.
Play by the pool. Playing is the tool.
Play and play and then one day you will be able to pick up any whistle and play it well because your experience will drive an intuitive adjustment required to play with the differences. It is then, and only then, that you are ready to ask questions and they will be questions about musicality.
Excellent advice!
One thing I think we forget is that we may be adults, but we still have to learn, and weâll sound like children do when theyâre learning.
We see adults playing, mostly, and we think that weâre adults, so we should sound like that. Well, we wonât for a while. You just have to play and play until youâve gotten in the hours required.
One day youâll notice that you arenât having problems with the whistles anymore. I have whistles I thought were garbage early on, but they all seem to play fine now.
The thing that puzzles me, is that the music that came with it is things like scarborough fair, sally gardens, danny boy. Are these considered beginners tunes? because if they are i am a slow learner indeed.
I was trying to play jazz on my sweetone the other day, some of Miles Davisâ âMilestonesâ tune i got the first few notes anyway 
What i really hope to instead of playing too much traditional music is to be able to eventually add some whistle to my guitar tracks.
talasiga and Lambchop have it peggedâŚ
Just keep practicing, practicing, practicing⌠play whatever suits your ear, but play⌠switch whistles now and again⌠find where you and the whistle meet, not necessarily where others think you should be, and certainly not berating yourself for not being somewhere other than at the beginning.
You will eventually not only improve, but as was said, find that you know" the way to handle the whistle⌠just about any whistle, because you will have learned to adjust.
Above all⌠enjoy!
I think the premise of those tune books is that youâll already know how to read musicâI mean, really, they DO tend to hope you CAN do that, because they certainly donât teach it!âand will already know and love the tunes, so all you have to do is follow along with the notes, humming in your head, and play along. In that way, you get used to the instrument, discovering where the various sounds are and how to make them come out.
If you cannot read music, youâre stumped. If you donât know the tunes, either, youâre pretty much dead in the water. The tunes are too complicated! Or, the notes in them donât match the tune you know in your head. And they invariably use octaves you canât play yet, even if you could figure out where they were.
If you need to start out at a better level, do so. Itâs really easy, and you donât need a book.
Just play nursery rhymes. What do you know from childhood? Just play that. Play one over and over until you figure out where the notes are going to be. Play it until you can do variations on it. With each tune you try, the next will be easier because youâll be learning. And you donât need to be able to read music to do it.
Sometimes, the most difficult part with this is deciding what note to begin on. Row, Row, Row Your Boat can begin with all the holes covered or with only the top 3 covered. So can Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star. Begin This Old Man with the top 3 covered. Begin Clair de Lune with all of them covered, then uncover the bottom 3 for the next note.
Whatever little songs you know, just play them. Little songs! They have to be simple tunes that will âfitâ on a tin whistle without half-holing or cross-fingering, because unless youâre a musician already, you wonât be able to âfind the notes.â
When you do use a tune book, be sure to use one that has a CD! You absolutely NEED to be able to hear the tune in your head before you play it! Play the CD tune or an MP3 off the net until you find yourself humming that tune. Then try to play it.
I took my sweetone up to the park earlier and i blew & blew and Blew & BLEW!
finally i could get to play scarborough fare in the upper octave, seven times out of ten. I was freezing when i got home though⌠
for an instrument that everyone says âItâs easy to playâ the whistle can be a deceptive little thing.
See! We knew you could do it!
There are worse things than freezing. If itâs cold, itâs dry.
If you were here, youâd be complaining that itâs 26 C (79 F) with 54% humidity . . . and youâd be asking us why no sound came out of your whistle after the first 3 notes . . . and why your feet keep getting wet.
I had one of those tune books as well with my Walton, youâll eventually find you will cope quite easily with them all. There has been some good advice in this thread, trying affordable whistles is a good idea , Generations, Oaks, Feadog are all readily available.
BTW Ye Banks and Braes is a nice tune to try in that book.
D
True, there are all sorts of cheapies, and true, the more you practice the better you are able to make âanyâ whistle sound, but from âmyâ experience, the Waltonâs was the least acceptable of any of them. I am happy some of you out there are satisfied with yours, but as far as I am concerned, youâd be better off with something elseâŚ
Flame away.
M
Hope that meets your expectations, Mary!
Great animation, Cynth
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I just googled something like âflamethrower smilie gifâ, I canât quite remember. I got some page called âSmileyâs of mass destructionâ or something like that. I just didnât want you to think I made it up myselfâI guess some people can do that. It is a bit different .
But if monkey had waited until then, he would never have had the benefit of your answer.
Monkey,
Talasiga is right. Play for a while - have fun - experiment. Try tightening your abdominal muscles for control and blow lightly like you want to move a feather across a table at a snails pace.
Be happy you didnât get a Hoover brass whistle for now, which takes uber-breath-control and is one of the sweetest whistles around. Master the Walton, then go for the Hoover if you want a real challenge.
Every whistle has itâs quirks and personalities. The more you play, the more flexibility you will gain. Eventually you will settle in to a type of whistle you favor for itâs quirks, characteristics, and voice.
Ask questions. Youâll get the benefit of someone saying âOh yeah, I remember that challenge, keep playing.â Itâs nice to hear that. Youâll need it again when you decide you want to play Irish Flute in a couple years.