There is a GREAT book out there called Smoke in Your Eyes - a Compilation of Irish Tunes Played at Seattle Sessions by Caoimhin Gaimh (I believe that’s ‘Kevin Gow’). Mel Bay also has a session tune book.
My favorite reference online though, is JCs tunefinder.
I find it helpfull to use the search function if you approach it in the most effective way. I havn’t tried the google search but have had great sucess with the built in one.
Things I’ve noticed…
Use as few words as possible, descriptive words like smaller, favorite, only, worst etc. only make the number of results climb and dilutes the results you actually want.
use of the word “and” between key words works well…
For example if you wanted to know what people thought of the Generation Bb whistle , you would put in the top box.. “Generation and Bb”. If you were to type in a phrase like " what is everyones favorite Bb whistle" , you would get so many results, you wouldn’t know where to begin. Also like Fearfaion mentioned , make sure to click the “search for all terms” button. (and of course the correct forum button on the bottom)
DreamOgreen 
Nice intro–thanks for that. It does raise an interesting question though: why isn’t there a FAQ about whistles/technique/performance/favorite CDs/repertoire/abc/making/etc.? My guess is that a FAQ might actually reduce the number of questions and thus discussion and traffic.
I totally agree, and it has been suggested before.
thanks to all that are helping out this newbie and the others, I am sure I speak for all that it warms our hearts
a bit sappy
but thanks for links, book titles, the lot
Hey, I may be too old to remember much, but I sure remember the hunger for more input on whistling… not over it yet! 
OK, I did all the searching I could handle, and still could not find a definitive answer. What is the best color Meg whistle? Which one plays brighter yellow or red? Will a blues fingering sequence chart come with the blue one to play the blues? Where can I get the best price for a Meg?
This is all so overwelming 
OK - I am a complete nitwit - how do we make words that are actually links to URLs without having to type the URL? As TRADITIONAL MUSIC above?
pastorkeith
Mauve.
Chartreuse.
Orange.
Usually in plain old black and white.
Somewhere over the rainbow.
Glad I could help. 
Replace the “( & )” with “[ & ]”
(url=http://www.nigelgatherer.com./)Traditional Music(/url)
You can often find this out by quoting the post and reading the code in the quote section.
And a lot of sheet music you’d never want. You can trust anything posted by Kenny, though. Much of the other stuff is okay, too, but not nearly all.
Norbeck’s better.