Thanks to everyones advice.
Decided to bite the bullet and buy a second hand Low D just to try. Coming tomorow.
Also going to buy a new Shaw for me, and give the ‘old’ one to my daughter to practice. Thanks to Dave Shaw for his advice.
Feels like Christmas Day! I can’t wait for the Postman! I just can’t wait to find out if the low D is for me, and if it is, Dave Shaw can expect another order from me soon! (This is not an advertisment).
My sister and I have started to leave whistle messages on eachothers ansaphones can anyone suggest a suitable repost to Donnybrook fair?
That is new one to me, leaving whistle message on each other’s machine. Sort of a like a dueling banjos brought to the modern age. How about Scarborough Fair as a response, keeping the “fair” theme? My low D took a lot of getting used to, especially getting a good seal on the bell note (lowest note). Now the low D, is almost always the crowd favorite when I perform for audiences.
Low D has worked out really well, as I am used to playing the tenor recorder, the high D whistle was a little bit difficult to get used to, but I felt the low D was my spiritual home, finger stretch wise. Everything has improved, my timing etc, feel as though I am coming on in leaps and bounds now. Tried out a few tunes on the low D and then went back to high D and got the timing! Feels like a scaffolding pole after my Rosewood German Tenor, but how responsive, what a treat! Can you suggest any good music for the low D? I don’t want to play the sort of Baroque music that I play on the recorder, fancy something Celtic and Moody!
Scarborough Fair on the Low D, now there’s an idea…
Thankyou so much, that site has 'She moved through the fair ’ on it which is one of my sister and I’s all time favourites. Downloaded onto MP3, and if I listen to it a few times I should be able to pick it up, and hopefully write it down. It is in G on the recording, but anyway.. here goes… Did you know that this moving beautiful air is actually about the Bubonic Plague? Low D heaven!
Yeah, he was really helpful, I have a feeling that my dear old whistle has been battered a bit in transit! Find getting high register on Low D quite easy in comparison, but this could all be down to the fact that I am used to playing a much lower pitched instrument. My daughter has really enjoyed inheriting the whistle, she’s really more of a fiddle player, but has mastered Silent Night and Twinkle Twinkle little Star on the whistle really easily in a couple of days, so from little acorns…!
You’ll probably want one of the ones that lists the key as D, although they are really A mixolydian. (Actually, the MIDI on the third D version worked fine for me, but the other two gave me error messages.)
The GIF is the written music. I prefer using ABC, though, because it lets me modify both the key and the tempo, if I need to. (I use BarFly on the Mac.)
