(You haven’t been following the other thread, eh? 
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What other thread? On the whistle board? OK, I’m intrigued.
No, here in our own neighborhood…
https://forums.chiffandfipple.com/t/i-keep-reading-posts-about-how-you-only-need-6-holes/85486/1
Best wishes.
Steve
Put it another way, know any flute players who don’t play whistle? 
Thank you for giving your opinion on the pros and cons of the original question though you deemed it a meaningless generalization 
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Hey no offense to anyone with my questions. I’m just trying to learn a thing or two 
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Nothing to do with your questions. This was in response to the who’s-a-whistler, who’s-a-fluter portion of the discussion.
Best wishes.
Steve
So I take it opinions are mixed on this subject.
I’ve been practicing both flute and whistle. I don’t feel an interference with one another - maybe I’m too inexperienced to know better. My main interest is the flute because of the control I can get. But when the embouchure is tiring and I’m not ready to quit my practice I turn to the whistle. Not to say I view the whistle as a second fiddle, but it’s just easier. And I do practice the whistle apart from the flute for its own sake because I like it for what it is.
The thing is ofcourse most people will start the whistle at an early age and make a natural progression on to another instrument in time. A late learner’s case, and progression, may be (or may be not) a different one.
It’s funny, but I do agree with MT Guru’s comment that most flute players (self-identifiers as primarily fluters) sound like flute players playing whistle. The same is true in reverse. While similar, there is just a slightly different approach to the two instruments.
Eric
Is it just me, or does that pic of Patsy Hanley above look a lot like Sir Alec Guinness as Obi Wan Kenobi?
m.d.
I find that I play mostly the flute, unless I’m having a lip issue (cold sore, flu, etc)…
If anything, I think the whistle helps me with breath control for the flute, but then what the hell do I know 
The weird part is that just recently, I had to put down the flute for about 2 weeks (cold sore)… and had alot of people say that they liked the tone of the whistle, but then when a couple of thousand people hear you on any given day, you never know what kinda comments you’re going to get.
Walt
Let’s say we agree on this. What - exactly - does that mean, in terms of whether they are more (or less) good flute players? If a person plays the flute well, but approaches it more as they do a whistle (and by that I assume we’re talking finger use, cuts and rolls, etc., as embouchure is still uniquely a flute issue, and one that varies a bit from player to player, too) are they not still, in fact, playing flute, and well? Do all whistle players play whistle with the same approach?
And what of the fluters that approach flute more like pipes? Or took their settings and ornaments more from fiddling, etc.? And aren’t these little variations in one’s approach what separates stylistic differences from one player to another in all cases?
Just not sure where any of this is going, or why.
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Patsy/Sir Alec/Ben Kenobi: I haven’t gone by the name of Obi-Wan since… oh, before you were born.
I started on flute and took up whistle as well about a year ago. Actually, I am really a guitarist (with modesty, a reasonably good guitarist) who wanted a portable melody instrument.
Since I am not particularly good at either, I don’t think I would sound like a “fluter playing whistle”. I just sound like a beginner on either!
One advantage in playing both is that a tune learned on one is not hard to adapt to the other. Whilst I prefer the sound of the flute when I am playing on my own, my tone is not strong enough to carry a tune in a large session yet, so I often play the whistle in sessions.
On a slightly different note (?) has anyone ever seen Matt Molloy play a whistle?
Gordon - not sure we were actually going anywhere…just musing a bit on an interesting phenomena I’ve noted in the past that matched what MT Guru posted. 
While I hate to agree with whistle players, it does occur from time to time, so I feel obligated to make them feel better by noting such occurrences. 
Eric
Yes… I see… 
So in that clip, does the piper play the whistle like the pipes or the pipes like a whistle?
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The whistle like the pipes.
But in a way the pipes are closer to the whistle than the flute to the whistle. It’s not a matter of fingering, but the control you have on the air stream that makes all the difference. Also Paddy’s style of pipes is open rather than tight, so the transition is close.