Hi All…I love this website!!! I can tell I will be back often!
Needing a little advice…I just picked up my first whistle a few months ago (Clarke in D) and I love it but I recently got a Generation in G and I don’t like it at all! I mostly play with a team (electric guitar, bass and percussion) in church and we do music in all keys. Is it reasonable to buy as many whistles as there are keys? Or should I be transposing? and if so, HOW???
I don’t have any of these programs yet, but I know there’s a bunch of free software programs available on the web and also others that have a fairly low cost that transpose music for you. Do a search of message board posts with key words like “transposing software” and things like that, and you should find some info about programs like these.
Also, you are probably aware that all whistles play in at least two keys and a third key with one hole half-holed. This helps some in cutting down buying whistles in all keys.
As for myself, I have several D whistles, one C, and a Bb. I don’t use the C and Bb very much yet.
Good luck!
[ This Message was edited by: Cees on 2002-02-13 13:33 ]
Right. The D whistle plays in D, G, and
A and e modal and other modalkeys.
Unless you are a genuis at half-holing
it’s gonna be hard to play fluently
in C, say, on a D whistle. A G whistle
will do it fine. So it’s a good idea
to buy whistles that will play in
the keys you will be performing in.
Generation whistles are often inconsistent
in quality, which may have something to
do with your bad experience. There are
other brands of whistles, some more
expensive, of course, that you ought to
like. A low G is very useful, I find,
cause it enables me to play in C.
I also use an A, a C, and a Bb.
You might take a look at Dale’s reviews
of whistles on the main site, low and
high end. The Generation Bb is often
said to be the best of the generations,
by the way.
