what to look for, if you want sheet music, what ever kind, classical works or populair, that you can play on whistle? without the need I would have to “translate” it to whistle 
, just play and have fun?
berti
hi berti, this programe is ok for the first 30 tunes or so that you learn. http://sharewaredirect.tripod.com/karaoke.htm
don’t forget to click on easiest.
but you’ll allways need your ears, midi files are not perfect.
or you can use abc notation
playing by ear is not easy in the beginning, you might not even notice it, but your making progress every day.
hope this helps
You can find irish tunes on the internet:
http://trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/FindTune.html
http://www.norbeck.nu/
http://www.thesession.org/index.php
You can also buy books with collections of session tunes like:
“The Dance Music of Ireland” - O’Neills 1001 …"
“100 essential irish session tunes” edited by Dave Mallinson
“Foinn Seisiún” - Session Tune Sets, Book 1 and 2, published by Comhaltas.
You should be able to buy these books online.
my question was about what to look for when you want sheetmusic you can play on whistle, even when that sheetmusic originally was written for another instrument.
say, you are in a library looking for some nice easy music and they have no tinwhistle sheetmusic.
then what should I look for?
berti
Key and range. A piece in D (two sharps) or G (one sharp) is playable on a D whistle, provided it fits in the two-octave range the whistle provides. You can half-hole the odd accidental, but you wouldn’t want to play (as an example) an E major tune on a D whistle.
Which is a reason to buy more whistles, of course.
Sonja
Most standard session tunes are playable on a whistle as the majority are in whistle-friendly keys: D major, G major, E minor. This would be the natural repertoire for a whistle.
What Sonja said.
One or two #s in the key signature, lowest note hanging just below the bottom line (this note is D) or above, highest note sitting on a short line just above the top line (this note is B) or below.
I always remember the notes this way:
Spaces from bottom up spell F A C E
Lines from bottom up Every Good Boy Deserves Fun
This is the range of the whistle (nominally), with the key signature shown as D (G would have one # less).
If you’re playing on your own, any sheet music with the notes falling in this range will do, because your D whistle will ‘transpose’ the music itself into D…although something with a lot of accidentals might sound a bit off (as Sonja said earlier) on a D whistle.
Hope this helps!
I want to thank you all now it has cleared up I now know what to look for in music.
Sadly the “popular” music I had left from guitarplaying won’t work well here so I will start for a hunt in the library.
Will make a nice variation of playing irish thingies for exercise.
happy whistling weekend
berti
Some library resources can include:
Church Hymals. Many hymns are based on Celtic melodies, and are written in D or a similarly whistle-friendly key (“Slane,” or “Be Thou My Vision,” is one well-known example, and is both easy and pretty on the whistle). A lot of plainchant (i.e., Gregorian chant) is also suitable for the whistle.
Folk music collections, particularly those focusing on music from the British Isles and America.
Redwolf
just by coincidence, I stumbled across some sheetmusic for flute on the web…to me it dawned that this is very playable on whistle!
such a simple solution…GRIN
berti
What about something like this: http://www.activemusician.com/market/items/HL_00240153.asp Celtic Fake Book
A good source for sheet music is in the link below. Tons of songs and it will put it in whistle tablature of any key.