With my wife, of course.
Anyway, if we wanted to do duets on whistle, would it make more sense to have whistles of the same or differing keys? Please explain your reasoning so that a person trying to grasp the whistle and it keys can understand.
We are also considering recorders.
Thanks,
Steven
royalgoldreps
For whistles, you absolutely need either the same key or an octave apart (like a high D and a low D) unless you have fiarly fluent musical transposition skills.
Recorders-- a different story. There is lots of music for soprano and alto recorders, for example.
Try both!
Whistles would be fun if you both wanted to go to sessions together, and recorder for duets. There is some astoundingly good recorder duet music out there for SS, SA,AA (S=soprano, A=Alto) ranging for classical to folk to pop. There are some superb plastic recorders available at very good prices.
True if you are playing in unison. However, if you are playing a harmony part, since most harmonies don’t require you to play the 7th, you can use either the whistle in the key of the tune, or the whistle one flat or one sharp of the key of the tune. For example, to play harmony to a tune in D, you can use either a D, G, or A whistle. For a tune in G, use a G, C, or D whistle.
Now I’m tooting my own whistle, but I have a couple of examples on the clips page where I harmonized a D whistle with a G.
I agree! I had a cheap plastic recorder before I started playing the whistle, but it stayed on the shelf while I learned the whistle. Later, I picked it up and found that I was already halfway there on the learning! I think they should start off children with whistles, then bring out the recorders later in the school year.