Eeks-Caziques wrote:
whistles are eroding my recorder playing and vice versa.
Though it has been said "one cannot serve two masters" yet I know people who are professional-level recorder players and also good traditional Irish style whistle players. Likewise I know somebody who is a professional orchestral viola player and also an excellent traditional Irish style fiddler.
So it is possible to learn two instruments in two styles and not have them interfere with each other. To do this it is necessary IHMO to approach the whistle as an entirely new instrument and guard against carrying over anything from your recorder playing- because the approach to breath control, and articulation, and fingering, and ornamentation, and phrasing, are all quite different.
Eeks-Caziques wrote:
recorder: two voices
Eeks-Caziques wrote:
holes that are spaced like a recorder...properly spaced
Whistle holes are properly spaced, for a whistle. You can't put Bassoon holes on a Saxophone, or Recorder holes on a Whistle.
Eeks-Caziques wrote:
(a hole) on the back, and perhaps the two bottom holes... whistle timbre with a straight carry-over of basic fingering
This comes up all the time: Highland pipers who want a whistle that fingers like a Highland pipe, Boehm fluteplayers who want a whistle that fingers like a Boehm flute, recorder players who want a whistle that fingers like a recorder. See comments above; when you learn mandolin you can't finger it like a guitar, when you learn trombone you can't play the scale as you would on a trumpet. The whistle is a distinct instrument, and it's pointless and ultimately futile to pretend that it is some other instrument.