I NEED SOME HELP PLEASE!
In this youtube video, what type of tin whistle is Andrea playing? and what key whistle??
I have no idea about tin whistles, so info for dummies is a must!
I want a tin whistle to be able to learn this song one day, and i want it to be the same tune and sound as it is here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urb4y-ZMvdc&feature=related
THANKS IN ADVANCE!!!
It’s a brass red top Generation. My guess is that it might be a Bb.
Be sure to check with hoopy mike
. He’s the forum contact for all things Andrea Corr — or at least all things related to Andrea Corr, a whistle, and a motor bike…
Best wishes.
Steve
If it’s the same vid, this was covered in a recent thread.
https://forums.chiffandfipple.com/t/which-whistle-is-it/74761/19
The whistle is a Bb Generation, but she’s faking it in the vid by fingering along to a prerecorded soundtrack of an Ab whistle.
Andrea faking it? I’m heart-broken!
I agree it’s red top Gen. Bb is the key.
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Something just occurred to me. If she’s faking it, we can’t really be sure the whistle in her hand is the whistle we’re hearing. So we may not be actually hearing a Gen, and she may not actually be holding a Bb. I think all we can really be sure of is that she’s holding a Gen and the song is being played in Bb, although not necessarily on a Bb whistle.
By George, I think you’ve got it. Who knows what kind of whistle is being heard. Probably not a Generation Ab. 
Well, I’m still not hearing those low notes you swear are there. 
It’s just one note, Jim … Here’s the actual whistle line in question, from the Titanic soundtrack:
http://www.box.net/shared/6jrpto0ssr
And here’s a simplified transcription in G fingering (as if played on a B whistle, giving the heard key of concert E):
[K:G]
GA|B6 AG|Ad3- d2cB|G2 E4 C2|D6|
As you can see, that bolded C impossibly goes below the range of the whistle. That’s the note you can’t hear.
Move it to A fingering as it was actually played (on an A whistle, still giving a heard key of concert E), and all is well:
[K:A]
AB|c6 BA|Be4- e2dc|A2 F4 D2|E6|
That’s really all there is to it.
In that live clip, the whistle line is unchanged, including that low note. But key of the performance has been moved down a semitone from concert E to concert Eb. Hence the (pre-recorded) whistle part is now played on an Ab whistle instead of an A whistle. Simple.
I understand the theory; I just can’t auditorily (is that the right word?) hear the whistle playing the note in the video
…but I appreciate the time you took to make that post.
Well here’s the sound from the video clip, with the audience noise suppressed:
http://www.box.net/shared/roo994cu73
That’s about as clear as I can get it, the low note’s definitely there. And if I listen to Titanic any more tonight, I’m going to have soggy dreams. 
I bow to your superior ears. I hear it now; it’s there.
In another thread, someone would be saying something about a peacock right about now; however, I’ll refrain.
When do we get to the drop-top Caddie roaring across the desert with Andrea in the back?
Would you settle for a boat in the Mediterranean ?
That’ll do, Steve, that’ll do. I wonder if Miss Corr is aware that she is the C&f poster girl for tone shift/key change experiments involving dry lake beds, fast vehicles and whistles? Now I think it, that would make a great album cover, Miss Corr standing on the back of a huge Harley, thundering across the lake bed, hair billowing in the wind, honking out a tune. Someone should call her agent…
I don’t think it would be too unreasonable to assume she is. She must know a lot of whistle players and I’d be surprised if none of them haven’t at least visited this site and looked around. Perhaps she’ll grace us with a visit one day.