I guess everyone except me has watched Erik’s video ‘Some thoughts on the Irish Pennywhistle’ before. Brings a tear to the eye.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfWhAyhA8JE
I particularly enjoyed advice on the ‘secret to Irish music’…if only life were so simple 
He also has a secret to playing jazz, (“lift R1 and R2 together, as in a peace sign”). Good guy, though. He’s helped a lot of people get started.
For sure, and no intention to speak ill of the man. Nice hat.
Wow. The first tip is essentially “always play in Edorian”. Interesting.
I wonder how he managed to get the reverb only on the whistle and
not on his voice. Didn’t look like 2 mics. Maybe in postproduction…
It says at the end that he uses a Boss RV-5 digital reverb pedal with a Crate taxi amp.
Katie
Dear Mark,
Thank you for bringing this to our attention. We have determined that Mr. Flutemaker may be in violation of Section 7 Paragraphs 10-14* of the ITM Code, as well as classified provisions of the Irish Music Secrets Act.
The subject has been identified by IP trace, and agents of SWAT (Special Whistles and Tunes) are proceeding with apprehension and subsequent rendition to an undisclosed location. Efforts will be made to protect the prisoner from injury by angry natives during refueling at Shannon International, though guarantees are out of our hands. Experience has shown that “Pure Drop” interrogation - ejection from the aircraft at 10,000 feet - is effective in eliciting confessions in cases such as this.
Sincerely,
Sgt. Seán O’Hara
Enforcement Division
Chiff & Fipple Security
(a subsidiary of Halliburton, Inc.)
*Prohibitions include: Fake accents; Impersonation of leprechauns; Excessive use of vibrato and reverb; Rude hand gestures; Silly hats.
Hey, good eye! He can just punch in reverb when
he whistles and punch it out when he talks. Neat.
…and excessive torment of those condemned to dial up, who must wait, and wait, and wait…
He’s not really presenting himself as an ITM expert, and he does repeatedly state that it is his humble opinion. My concern would be that people who buy whistles based on that presentation will be expecting to have such a sound come out of it. Ain’t happenin’! Unless maybe he’s including the Boss RV-5 digital reverb pedal with a Crate taxi amp, or a cavern in which to play, along in the delivery.
Ah well… I still think it was enjoyable. 
Jaysus, that’s 10 precious minutes of me life GONE FOREVER! Ever ever ever ever
No “secrets” revealed in this one but unquestionably in full compliance with the ITM Code and IMS Act:
Special Whistles And Tunes… haha, I like it. Though for pipers, it’d be SPAT, Special Pipes and Tunes. Or for the piper/whistler, SPWAT.
Silly hats?!?!?
Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! 
I’d never really pictured a thicket of bamboo as evocative of a leprechaun’s haunt anyway…but I suppose they must put up
with its tenacious insistence on taking over all available real estate too.
I actually enjoyed that. Why does everyone have issues with this?
Rob
Then maybe you are the target audience for the clip. And maybe others are not.
We’re keeping a dossier on you now.
Don’t confuse good-natured ribbing with “having issues”.
I thought it was rather amusing.
OK, speaking seriously. How does he make that jazz thing? I couldn’t get that.
He’s just playing the Blues scale. It’s a scale used often in Jazz improvisation.
He used the E blues scale, which is fairly easy on the whistle. It looks like this:
E G A Bb B d e
You have to half-hole the Bb, of course, but you can fake it by sliding up from
the A to the B, and kind of pausing along the way. Bb is called the “blue” note
in this scale. So, that’s why he talked about the “peace sign”: after playing the
E, you lift both of your fingers to skip the F#.
I kind of dug it. As a newbie without a physical connection to the community, it’s nice to be able to actually see and hear people demonstrating their styles/techniques.
Okay, now I’m on the no fly list, right?
Absolutely. Please step over here and remove your shoes.