Hi there,
I just bought a Clarke Tin whistle but I’m not familiar with playing this instrument (just playing recorder at school).
I want to ask if someone can give me any suggestions how to start playing and what kind of music is not too difficult..?
I also would like to find some notes from the Corrs, where Andrea Corr is playing the Tin whistle!
Or find some other notes for starting to play before I buy the wrong music books..
Would be happy if someone helped me.
Thanks a lot
Michelle
Welcome, Michelle! You might try Geraldine Cotter’s tutorial book and CD, or the one by Bill Ochs. Both available at http://thewhistleshop.com/. Both are good. After that check out:
http://www.rogermillington.com/siamsa/brosteve/
THE best website for learning whistle. And just peruse the boards here for lots of info. You can do search for the Corrs (see the icon near the top of the page for the search funtion). There are lot of Corrs threads.
And have fun! 
Hello Michelle, and welcome to the madness of C&F.
You might like to check out this thread:
http://chiffboard.mati.ca/viewtopic.php?t=20652&highlight=beginner
and also do a ‘search’ for “Beginner” which’ll throw up a whole host of similar questions to yours You’re not alone
I can’t help with your question about the Corrs, sorry. I think SilverStrand may be able to help when she’s next online though.
Many folks recommend the tutorial by Bill Ochs as being one of the best tutor books for tin whistle beginnings.
As for the rest, it really depends on what kind of music you like to play. You’ll doubtless note a heavy emphasis on Irish Traditional Music around here 
Have fun!
In Ireland the schools used teach some instrument / singing and the TW was a favorite because it cost so little.
Try tunes you already know, and then go find notes for those you dont.
Learning the fingering and blowing for scales is a little slow, perserverence will pay off big time. I spend a lot of time just doing Chords - ( Guitaraholic )
Though a tune like “Brian O Linn” - in the key of C on the D stick - seems to be really hard, surprisingly it is really easy. So it is very hard to tell by listening or reading the dots which is hard and which isn’t. PS “Brian O Linn” is often incorrectly titled “The Geese In The Bog”
TW is more a way of life than an instrument since once smitten by it everything else - even the flute - feels wrong for my Irtrad taste… not that I have WHOA or anything like that, but I do confess owning several home made flutes and the odd lost TW …
Thank you all for your answers..
Michelle
Another question:
I bought a Clarke Original in C, was it a good decicion for beginners?
Found one at Ebay, the problem buying at a musicshop online is that I have to pay $ 16 for shipping to Europe (Austria).
Michelle
A D whistle is much more common, Michelle. You can buy whistles and books from these websites:
http://shannaquay.com/ is in Ireland, while
http://bigwhistle.co.uk/ is in the UK, obviously. Hopefully that will help you with the shipping.
Thanks for the informations!
Would you suggest to change the whistle to a D or leave it for the beginning on the C?
I don’t think there’s anything wrong with starting with the C whistle, especially while you’re waiting to get a D. (The D whistle will have fingerings most similar to the recorder, by the way.) It will help you get used to the breath requirements and the feel of the instrument. You’d likely want a whistle in C eventually anyway. You’ll probably end up with about 100 whistles, if you’re like most of the people on this board. I’m holding steady at four and it’s killing me! (But I’m pretty new, too. )
www.musicroom.com offer free shipping in Europe. They are not a special folkshop, but they do have a few whistles and tutors.
I agree with most of that (I play my C whistles a fair amount) - but it’s D whistle (not C whistle) fingering that’s closest to a C recorder, IMHO.
Ignoring the thumb hole (always covered in the recorder’s lower register), “B”, “A”, “G”, “E”, and “D” are fingered identically. “F#” is different, but the forked “F-natural” fingering from recorder will produce something close to an “F-natural” on most whistles, though it usually isn’t really in-tune.
The neat thing about whistles is that they’re normally treated as transposing instruments - most mustic is written for a standard D whistle, but you can switch it into another key by playing the other-key whistle as if it were in D. My own fairly modest collection has whistles in Eb, D, C, Bb, (tenor) A and F, and (low) D.
Michelle:
So this is ‘off-topic’ but I just thought I’d say that I know a Michi in Austria (Vienna) that we call Blume sometimes – you don’t live in Vienna, do you?
Schoene Gruesse aus Pittsburgh!
Peter
When I first started playing the whistle, it was on a Clarke C (with the Bill Ochs book and cassette) and I don’t believe the D was available at the time; it was re-issued by Clarke quite a while later. In short, you can learn just fine on the C, although the most common key is D and later you should get one.
Bill’s package for me was a great and fun way to learn; now it probably comes with the book, a D clarke and CD rather than cassette, I imagine.
In any event, to quote our own Lee Marsh, “Enjoy your music.”
Philo
it’s D whistle (not C whistle) fingering that’s closest to a C recorder, IMHO.
That’s what I said.
Argh! I misread it. 
I’m violently in agreement with you.
No harm, no foul.
Hey Kleine_Blume, how’s it going with the whistle so far?
I’ll get the whistle in a few days because I bought it from the internet and it takes a bit. I hope I can play with it soon !
I’ll let you know how it works !
Today I received the new whistly but what a pity it was damaged on the transport so I had to send it back to get a new one..
But I really wanted to play soon 