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What specifically does it do? If you play from Bottom D up the scale to B in the 2nd octave which notes are off, are they sharp or flat? Taking beginner's error into account, I can't guarantee how reliable these readings are. They were done with a tuner app on my phone. The problem is that while wa...

Tyghress wrote:Whistles on my wishlist. . .I'm hoping to get Joe to make an A and F but I'm not holding my breath

A and F are nice keys, but... Who is Joe?

Flat second octave? If yes, then try tuning to the 2nd octave D not the first. Better to have the higher notes in tune than the first octave. Good point. I'll try that. Thanks for the suggestion. But most of the cheap whistles have some tuning issues. For $13, it has easily exceeded my expectations...

Sedi wrote:Or do you mean it is not in tune with itself?

Yes. It's not in tune with itself. I've adjusted the head to the best compromise.

... I started down this mad rabbit hole, with an Oak and 2 tutor books; Clare McKenna's and Grey Larson's. ... Welcome! Is your Oak in the key of D? Have you found that it's in tune? I have an Oak in C, and the triple-nickel plating is quite nice. While I like the Oak's tone a lot, mine has some mi...

My duet partner and I are no longer getting together, but we're doing the equivalent of work-at-home music. We've organized all our tunes on Google Sheets. We keep 10 current pieces to learn, in various stages, and we track our progress. Each of us checks them off as we are ready to move on to new m...

kittynyc wrote:2. What are your whistle-related goals for 2020?
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This trick: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nroOwhmhyU

Welcome, kittynyc. Nice to have you join us.

What a neat trick in that video. Impossible to do while we are all social distancing, but it was still fun to see.

pancelticpiper wrote:Well it came today!

It's superb.

The low notes are powerful, the high note sweet. Plays like a dream.

Awesome! I'm happy for you.

... Last year I sat in with a local ITM trio on a couple gigs and had to learn 20 or so new reels, jigs, hornpipes, polkas, and songs. I'm doing a couple gigs with them again this year and just yesterday I worked out a few more of their pieces and reviewed the others. ... That sounds like you're fi...

All St Patrick's Day parades and activities involving large gatherings have been stopped here. ... A lot of people will be in the same situation. Some would have booked their March 17th dates months ago, only to have them cancelled. If this were a "normal" year, what would your typical St...

Waving back to Potoroo ~~~~~~~~~. Welcome to the forum. I don't have that book, but I checked the "Look Inside" feature on Amazon. That tune is Egan's Polka. It's on page 74 in The Bill Ochs Tin Whistle Handbook . Ryan Duns shares the sheet music on his blog, with his teaching video: http:...

Here's another vote for the Dixon alloy DX006D. Although I don't have a lot of experience, I've been happy with the tone. Another nice feature is the oxx ooo fingering for C-natural, which is in tune.

pancelticpiper wrote:Well the main thing on my 2020 wish list, a great-playing mezzo F whistle, has been sorted. ...

Awesome! I hope you'll report back when that new Goldie arrives and share your first impressions.

Surprisingly little shows up on Google for that phrase. OAIM mentions it in their tin whistle foundations course, Lesson 4, which says The Toormore Slide, Melodic Cuts. Scroll 3/4 of the way down this page: https://www.oaim.ie/tin-whistle/tin-whistle-foundations/ . We'd need someone with an OAIM mem...