I know absolutely nothing, or at best very little...(help?)

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On 2003-02-10 14:37, touw wrote:
To prove that I’ve forgotten EVERYTHING, what’s the difference between a D and a C or A, or B, etc?

The letter refers to the bell note or lowest note on the whistle. So on a D whistle the lowest note is D, and the key is D. On a C whistle, it’s C, and so forth. The rest of the notes are based on that key.

So a D whistle plays a D scale: D E F# G A B C# D
A C whistle plays a C scale: C D E F G A B C

You can get other notes (meaning sharps, flats, naturals) out of them depending on your fingering and technique, but those are the notes they are designed to play.

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  1. Reading music will speed you up at first, but slow you down in the long run. Use the crutch carefully.

How is reading music a crutch? What other way is there to play music? Do you mean play by ear or what?

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The best advise by far is Tony’s.
Buy a whistle, (any whistle in -D-)
buy a tutorial (you can get something
useful out of any book)and dedicate
yourself and get of the internet and the rest will take care of itself. The abundance of “opinions” here will
just confuse you. This is from someone in the
“business” selling whistles and books and I’m
not trying to sell you my whistles or books.

Kelhorn Mike

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On 2003-02-10 16:20, Kelhorn Mike wrote:
The best advise by far is Tony’s.
Buy a whistle, (any whistle in -D-)
buy a tutorial (you can get something
useful out of any book)and dedicate
yourself and get of the internet and the rest will take care of itself. The abundance of “opinions” here will
just confuse you. This is from someone in the
“business” selling whistles and books and I’m
not trying to sell you my whistles or books.

Kelhorn Mike

I might amend that a little to “don’t spend too much time on the internet.” I do think you can learn a lot from a forum such as this, if you’re willing to wade through a lot of opinion (and we’ve all got 'em)…and it’s nice to have the support when you think you’re never, ever going to get up to speed :slight_smile:. I’ve learned a lot here, I know. You don’t want to spend too much time on-line, however, or you’ll get bogged down in suppositions and never have time to practice!

Redwolf