[Music Score] Playing 2 tin whistles at the same time.

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Hi, folks.

I have arranged an short piece for 2 tin whistle for one player.
It’s “Danny Boy”, and I also recorded a sample file.
Sorry for the bad tuning, but I hope you have fun with this finger-twisting trick.
:slight_smile:
http://www.irishflute.info/mp3/Danny_Boy_with_harmony_for_1_eng.pdf

http://www.irishflute.info/mp3/Danny_Boy_with_harmony_for_1.mp3

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Hmm. Do you have two pairs of hands, or do you play with your toes?

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If you follow the instructions in the PDF it only requires two whistles and two hands…

Thanks Hatao… I may actually give this circus stunt a whirl.
(It’s certainly the only way my band would ever consider doing “Danny Boy”) :stuck_out_tongue:

The Double Barrel Whistle. Is it a novelty item?
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I printed it, but there were no instructions, just a bunch of dots.
Anyone have the instruction text in a different format?

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Ah, now I get it. You’ll need to install Japanese fonts to view the pdf in its full glory.

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Even without the msmincho.ttf font, it’s pretty intuitive what to do.

  1. Take two (D) whistles, and tape closed the top 3 holes of one of them.

  2. Hold the untaped whistle with your left hand (or normal top hand), and the taped whistle in the other hand. Finger the holes normally.

  3. Start tooting. The top hand whistle plays the top part, and the bottom hand whistle the bottom part.

Where the top hand whistle requires F#, use your pinkie finger on the B1 hole.

Where the top hand whistle requires E, extend your bottom hand B1 and B2 fingers to cover BOTH whistles (the E always occurs as a unison). Alternately, substitute E with G, which causes only minimal disruption of the melody.

  1. (Optional) Chug a pint of Guinness as penance for having inflicted another performance of Danny Boy on the world. Disclaimer: This step may not have been in the original PDF instructions.
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This leads to the inevitable question, “which whistles are best played together?” Two of the same variety, I guess, but which variety?

On a slightly more serious note, would anyone care to come up with suitable marriages of low and high whistles (played by two people rather than strictly together).

I bet not…

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There’s got to be more to it than that…
Right from the first note, there are notes that need the same hand at the same time.
Eg, the first note on one whistle is F#, and on the other whistle a low D: both fingered on the bottom holes of the whistles. Etc.

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Nope! :slight_smile: As noted (step 3), you need to play the F#s with the pinkie finger of your top hand.

Top hand F#: xxxxoo
Bottom hand D: @@@xxx (@ = taped hole)

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OK, if the Guru says it can be done, I guess it must be so.. :wink:
Hafta give it a try some night when I 'm not so tired. Now, I just gotta figure out whistle I want to subject to tape…not a wooden one!