I i’m starting to play tin whistle and i bought a shaw whistle. It’s a very good whistle i think but i’m having troubles playing the high notes. can someone give me some tips? When i blow harder, the sound doesn’t sound good… I’ve already read severall tutorials but there isn’t any who explains how you can produce the high tones so they sound good.
I also have a Freeman tweaked Shaw D whislte, and I am not very pleased with it. The A, B, C#, and 2nd octave D are difficult to play unless you blow hard, and the resulting notes are very loud and shrill. I threw the whistle in the front seat of my car, and I now play it (mostly in the lower register) when I am waiting at lights.
I have another inexpensive Clark Sweetone pennywhistle in D that I like a lot better. I am able to play the aforementioned notes without blowing my brains out. I think that the plastic fipple on the Clark whistle is well-designed and quite practical. I recommend the Clark whistle.
You probably intended to post this to the whistle board – this is the flute forum. You’ll get a lot more responses from the whistle board, which is much more widely read.
Two options: keep practicing and, if that doesn’t work in a few days,
try another whistle–it may be the whistle.
FWIW: My Freeman tweaked Shaw is one of my very favorite whistles.
But it is possible you purchased a Shaw directly from a vendor ~ in any case, the Shaw may not be the most beginner-friendly whistle, at least not IMHO. And for some folks, it just doesn’t “hit it”.
There are lots of fans of Generation/Sweettone/Clarkes over on the whistle board ~ and there are so many different whistles available that you may be overwhelmed with advice, too! 
Mary
Keep at it. Your high notes will get better and better, and soon your lips/cheeks/diaphragm will know exactly how much air to deliver for every note, and you’ll never have to think about it again.
All right, thanks for the advice. So it isn’t the whistle but just the way i’m playing it. I’ll practice enough 
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