Hey, all. I was wondering, what would be a good whistle for me to get next. It’ll be awhile before I get a low D, and I’m thinking of what I want in the mean time. I’m not too sure how much higher I’d need to go, as most of the songs I play don’t go beyond high C. However, I find that as I play from a couple of sheet music books I’ve downloaded, some of the songs are going beyond high C. I think I want to get one more sweet sounding one, and another that is totally different from what I have now. Any recommendations?
The clarke originals impressed my pants off, now quite what I’d call sweet but very pleasant-sounding and flutey. Sweet is such a subjective word anyway.
Another question is what kind of music you want to play. The standard thing to do with Irish music is to pretend that you’re playing a D whistle in D or G, and get whistles in other keys to if you really want the music to come out in other keys. So, if you want to play in C, get a C whistle, to play in A, get an A whistle, etc.
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Hey ,
A few weeks ago my wife and I were laughing about a logo used on a 6-pack of Dutch beer. It was that bird guy sitting in a chair eating the naked torso with birds flying out of the posterior. I can’t remember the name of the beer though!!
Anyway…
Robert,
An A is always an interesting key to play in. It’s a good gap between the smaller high whistles and the big low whistles.
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