Hello all,
I recently bought a tin whistle. A guiness D. Because I just found this new interest here. My sister is Cees. I am sure a lot of you know her. She introduced it to me and helped me pick out my first whistle a few weeks ago. Just wanted to say hi and if any of you want to send me some cool links for music or other things…that would be great. ~Mimi
Hi Mimi,
Welcome to the board! I hope your whistling brings you years of happiness and enjoyment and the board is of help to you on your journey.
Best,
Chris
Welcome aboard!
Glad to have you join us. There are many of us new people out there so you’re in good company. Enjoy! There are good people here.
Hey, SIS!! You made it. Welcome!! I had a lot of fun today giving you your first whistle “lesson,” as I suppose we must call it though I am pretty new myself. Keep practicing and you will improve fast! You’re already doing great.
Warning: this message board, web page, and all things whistle-related are very ADDICTING, so: you have been fore-warned. 
TTYL!
Kiirs
Welcome. I’m new to the whistle too. I need some help with ornamentation. How’s the Guinness whistle? I’m already addicted to whistles and this site. Have fun playing.
Moyre,
Have you checked out Brother Steve’s site? Great tips for ornamentation.
Moyre,
The guiness is really nice. It has a nice sound to it and it is pretty easy for me to play once I got the hang of the low notes. It is really light and it has a airy sound to it. What kind of whistles do you own? Do you have any yet?
~Mimi
Hey Cees,
Thanks for the message. As you can see I figured out how to post messages. I met this nice girl, Sara, that helped me figure it out. She said that she has talked to you before. She is from Texas. Cool, huh? I told her that you have been there. Well you are great. So where is Brian? I want to meet him. He sounds fun. ~Mimi
Welcome to the Board Mimi. It’s usually fun and informative. Regards, Philo
I have the Guinness D also. It’s okay for an under $10.00 whistle. At least mine was easy to make it slightly tuneable since the mouthpiece had absolutely no glue holding it in place. I just very slightly warmed the mouthpiece in warm water and it slid right off.
I used the program TUNE IT to get the D note to be just slightly sharp. It has to stay sharp on my particular whistle or all of the other notes are too flat.
It plays great for a beginner like me. I suppose a pro like Dale could get it to glow with angelic sounds, but I can’t. 
Welcome to the board. I hope you get lots of practice so you can teach me stuff. I’m having a difficult time with the Irish traditional music.
Hi folks,
I may have had a dud, but the Guiness whistle I bought several years ago was horrendous. It was a tourist whistle in every sense - it felt plasticy (is that a real word?), sounded horrible, and was out of tune. I eventually tossed it in the trash compacter.
Chris
Mimi! Welcome to C&F!
Cees,
I’d love to check out Steve’s site. Can you tell me where to find it. I need some help with ornamentation.
Thanks, Moyre
Hey all,
Thanks for making me feel welcome. I appreciate everyone that has written to me s far. Have any of you seen Lord of the Rings yet? I’m sure you have. I just bought the soundtrack today and there is some really pretty tin whistle music on it. I was playing on my whistle earlier today and playing along with the tin whistle songs on the soundtrack. It was good practice for me and it was fun also. I wonder if they have that sheet music somewhere? DOes anyone know? It’s a really good soundtrack…lots of tin whistle.
~Mimi
Moyre,
Here’s a link to Brother Steve’s sight:
http://www.rogermillington.com/siamsa/brosteve/
I found his tips so helpful and simple. Hope you do, too!
Mimi:
in the “Search” function at the top right of your screen, under “chiff & fipple forums,” do a search for the keywords “LOTR soundtrack” or “Lord of the Rings soundtrack.” There was a thread a few weeks ago about the soundtrack and whistle-playing in it.
Have fun!
Cees
[ This Message was edited by: Cees on 2002-02-03 08:55 ]
On 2002-02-02 01:53, mimi wrote:
She said that she has talked to you before. She is from Texas. Cool, huh? I told her that you have been there.
Cees:
Mimi told me you had been to the Fort Worth area, just wanted to tell you that’s where I live - how long were you here? What did you think of it? I don’t really like the metroplex that much. It gets boring quite often because there’s nothing to do here. There’s pennywhistle on the soundtrack for LoTR? Cool! I haven’t seen the movie yet, is there pennywhistle in the movie as well? I’ve been meaning to go see LoTR, but haven’t gotten around to it - was Elijah Wood good in it? From the clips I’ve seen of it, it’s looks as though he played an excellent Frodo! He’s one of my favorite actors!
Imagine peace,
Sara
Sara,
I got to live in Texas for a year and a half. I started out in a suburb of Fort Worth. I liked it okay but it was probably one of my least favorite places. Some of the people were not very friendly and they always seemed rushed and too busy for anything. Most of the ones I met were from other states, not really any “life-long” Texans. They were nice, but they didn’t have that great laid-back, unhurried, friendly feel to them like the west Texans did.
I also spent time in The Colony and Gainesville, then was transferred to west Texas and spent the rest of my time in Andrews (a little town by Midland/Odessa), Abilene, Brady (a tiny town south-east, I think, of San Angelo), Canyon, and Perryton (those last two were in the Panhandle, by Amarillo). I loved all my time in west Texas. The people were WONDERFUL! They were nice, super friendly, laid-back, and cheerful, for the most part. The scenery wasn’t the best (though I even grew to like that after a while) but the people more than made up for it.
Despite the heat and bugs (especially those awful cockroaches), I really loved my time in Texas and I hope I can go back some day and visit some of the people who became such good friends.
As far as LOTR goes, yes, there is quite a bit of whistle-playing in the movie soundtrack. It seems to be the theme when it shows the hobbits–kind of like their identity, to be a whistle-playing species–gentle, friendly, music-loving, and playful.
So maybe that’s why all of us whistle-players like the hobbits so much–we can relate to them!
ELijah Wood was VERY good as Frodo, something I was watching critically because I hold the books sacred and didn’t want any of the actors to ruin the parts or my picture of them. He did a GREAT job.
Hope that answers your questions,
Kiirsi
[ This Message was edited by: cees on 2002-02-05 09:25 ]
Hi Mimi,
Welcome aboard. You’ll soon find that there’s whistle music all around that you didn’t notice before.
On Channel 4 TV last night (UK) in a programme called Time Team, the background music had a whistle featured. A year ago I would not have realised, now I find I want to play along. Whistles are coming to the fore!
all the best, Martin
Hello Martin,
Thanks for the little note. I know what you mean…when you get into it more you can pick out the whistles better. How long have you been playing? What kind of whistles do you have? I am really excited about learning as much as I can about the whistle and I am teaching myself with weekly lessons from my sister, cees. It’s great. When I hear something…I find that I want to play along as well. Keep in touch! ~Mimi
Cees,
That’s cool that you had such a nice time in West Texas. My parents and I spent a short period of time near the Midland/Odessa area as well and unfortunately, we didn’t have as nice of time - for some reason the people were quite rude to us, some were nice, but alot were rude. I’m not sure why, though. The people in the metroplex aren’t as laid back as most in other parts of Texas.
True, that’s probably why we can relate to Hobbits! It doesn’t surprise me that Elijah did a really good job playing Frodo - I’m going to try and go see LoTR sometime in the near future.
Peace,
Sara