Non-Irish music that fits on the whistle?

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Tell us something.: I've been trying to learn the recorder for about 5 years now and want to add a new instrument (tin whistle) to my repertoire. I hope with only 6 holes life will be a bit easier... (John Sheahan's Marino Casino in the Gaiety theatre has something to do with it - whereas my head knows that 40 years of practice is the reason why it sounds so good, I'm still hoping...)
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Re: Non-Irish music that fits on the whistle?

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For people who are willing to play from sheet music (CD included): Whistle Around the World, by L. E. Mccullough, Oak Publications

https://www.stretta-music.com/search/q/ ... 27517.html (certainly available elsewhere as well, but Stretta offers sound samples and sample pages and are generally a good supplier for Europe)
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Re: Non-Irish music that fits on the whistle?

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My whole musical life (over 40 years) has been the other way round.

Rather than acquiring an instrument and then asking myself "what sort of music might I play on this?" I have, over and over, become enchanted with a particular genre of music, then acquired the instrument(s) deemed appropriate for the music by the mainstream practitioners of it.

In the Introduction to his book Bagpipes Anthony Baines makes the obvious-sounding but profound statement

"Like any musical instrument the bagpipe exists for the music played upon it and for this alone."

So when I became obsessed with Highland bagpipe music I learned how to play the Highland bagpipes, and when I became obsessed with Irish traditional music I learned the whistle, wooden flute, and uilleann pipes. When I began playing Bulgarian dance music in a band I learned the gaita and kaval.

Were I to want to get into playing, say, old New Orleans jazz clarinet music (which I dearly love listening to) I would learn clarinet.

It's just the way I've always approached music.
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