Do I need more than a D whistle for playing sessions?

Mr_Blackwood · **Joined:** Wed May 18, 2011 10:54 pm **Posts:** 496

Jayhawk wrote:

Mr_Blackwood wrote:

MTGuru/Jayhawk: useful was/is the word, not essential

Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that anyone shouldn't buy a whistle in a different key, but in just the last 10 years of sessions I can only recall once where a whistle player brought out a whistle in a different key. Everyone else just uses a D whistle (high or low). Granted, my sample size may not be huge, but I'm including sessions in Sacramento, Davis CA, San Diego, Seattle, St. Louis, KC, Baltimore, and Atlanta (that I can recall).

Now in our band we have a couple of players who break out different key whistle from time to time, but at session they just play a D whistle...or the bodhran. :boggle:

Eric

No worries, i am not saying the opposite either

It's just that in my 'circles' if you want to play along to the odd song now and again you'd better have whistles in other keys than D or C, namely A, Bb or F (low F is handy in those cases)

Jayhawk · **Posted:** Mon Aug 20, 2012 4:40 am

Ah, you have jogged my memory...we don't have much singing in our session, but there have been a few other times, during a song, when a whistle in a different key came out of hiding to harmonize with the singer.

Do I need more than a D whistle for playing sessions?

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