Octaves? We dont need no stinking octaves!!!!

Whistle
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I am slowly moving along in my whistle degree. I recently received in the mail a generation D with a Mack Hoover head (http://home.bresnan.net/~mackhoover/) :thumbsup: .

I can hit the second octaves easily now and am enjoying the hell out of it. This to me is the next best thing to sliced bread (filled with ham, turkey, bologna, some mayonaise and mustard of course).

I now have a new dilemma ( I say dilemma always for the drama queens). I am using a slowdowner to once and for all figure out the resikan flute tune.

For all the newer whistlers it goes like this (second octaves in capitals):

a g f D D E A F

E B A F E D b

The second verse, composition, quatrain, etc. though is makin my head spin. It goes up into the third octaves that I just cant quite get. Any of you all knowing and wise whistlers have any tips? :poke:

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Not all whistles can do it without being shrill.

So far, I can play Inner Light with a Sindt D and Dixon tunable with brass slide. I’ve tried it with a Burke Pro and it was way too loud.

You have to learn to hit those higher notes and sustain them without blowing out your ears.

It’s part whistle and part practice.

It’s a beauty of a tune though. Keep trying.

Mike