This is definitely a newbie question. I have downloaded a copy of Tuner_E but am not quite sure if I am using it correctly.
The settings are as follows A = 440hz, set to automatic, real time. Some of the notes appear flat especially A and G. This is probably down to my playing but as I know some of you use this software any help on setting up would be appreciated.
Whistles- Jerry Freeman Tweaked Sweetone D, Walton Brass D
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The standard setting is usually at A=440. If you want to tune to 440Hz, it’s fine. Work on your breath pressure instead of the software 
On most every whistle out there, you have to breathe harder as you go up the scale. On some whistles, you have to increase your breath a whole lot. On others you don’t.
And every whistle’s going to have some individul variation as to which notes need to be blown harder or softer to bring them into tune. This is definitely a skill you acquire with time, especially if you end up playing with others (or even just along with a CD).
As an example: I have an old Soodlum, which my wife used to have when she thought she might take up the tinwhistle, long before she met me. She gave it to me, and I thought it was a crappy whistle, flat in all the wrong places. So I stuck it in my whistle drawer and forgot about it. Years later, I pulled it out, and it had somehow gotten world’s better! Of course, the truth is that I’d just gotten better at my breath control.
Thanks for the information. Another attempt concentrating both on fingering and breath pressure did the trick. I am now happier that I’m hitting the right note. There was a moment on F# /Gb :roll: definitely Homer Simpson.
In another mad spell of WHOA I’ve ordered Generations in Bb, Eb and a Feadog in D. You just can’t have enough whistles.
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A lot of people get hung up on tuning and worry themselves to death when they download a tuning program and use it. Just concentrate on making it sound right. You constantly blow or underblow notes into tune. Nature of the beast. A whistle won’t be as consistant as a modern band or orchestral instrument. Modern instruments have a zillion keys so that all notes can play in tune and with consistant volume. Of course, some whistles are much better than others.
One way a tuner can be useful …
If all or most of the notes you have to be careful with are either sharp or flat (flat in your case), you can adjust the overall tuning to find the happy medium where you don’t have to make much of a breath adjustment for any note. On your whistle, you can try pushing the whistlehead further onto the tube, slightly sharpening all the notes, to see if that’s better overall. Also, it’s worth mentioning that anything within about five cents can be considered in tune, since few people can distinguish differences of less than five cents tuning.
If a whistle has one or two notes that are especially sharp to the rest of the notes, you can flatten those notes by putting a bit of cellophane tape over part of the tonehole. With a little trial and error, you can get a very good result this way.
Best wishes,
Jerry
Thanks Jerry I was flat and not the whistle, I have ordered a Mack Hoover Whitecap mouthpiece to fit the Eb Gen and the Feadog after listening to clips. I also noticed on another thread that a Clarke Meg mouthpiece makes an interesting combination when fitted to a Bb Gen. Insatiable curiosity.
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PS: BTW I really enjoy Jerry’s tweaked Sweetone. The question still remains unanswered though is Jerry’s mouse related to The Cheshire Cat 