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Brus wrote:Pachelbel Canon in D for guitar, violin, and whistle:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_8qV78pLz8

Nice effect. I couldn't help thinking that they would have been better actually following the music as written by Pachelbel, ie keeping it in canon. I didn't like the unison parts at all.

Sarah's Song
Jim Anon, on a Freeman "Blackbird" whistle

https://youtu.be/fOPltt8aAXo

I came across this today, played on the Low D I have.

https://youtu.be/vT7j1qLkQmQ

Zombie - The Cranberries - tutorial and link to fingering tabs/notes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1A_pSc4sG0g

Short Demo of the Chieftain Custom by Kerry whistles. https://youtu.be/xQ2kFJJUhtM

My first whistle video - St Patrick's Andro inspired by Carlos Nunez

Rostellan Wood by The Diviners
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxMriy4elT4

neilC wrote:My first whistle video - St Patrick's Andro inspired by Carlos Nunez

Nice! That's well done.

'Kate at the Gate' (by Nigel Eaton, originally for hurdy-gurdy)

Me on whistle, with a couple of old comrades in musical crime.

The whistle is a Shaw 'A', with an A drone whistle also attached.

Starts pretty, but ends heavy-metal (well, Nigel Eaton played live with Led Zeppelin, so maybe appropriate).

Warning for the faint of heart: electric effects switched in after about a third of the way through 0:

This was from about this time last year; I'm really really missing proper live music, both playing and supporting others.

https://youtu.be/YCAL1sg_nNU

'The Balquhidder Lasses', normally a reel but played slow and melancholy.
On a Shaw 'A' whistle with drone whistle attached.
The drone whistle is brought in and out during the first 2 passes of the tune, in a 'call and answer' phrasing, then left in for all of the third pass of the tune.
Just to go drone crazy, I'm also adding more drones from a Shruti box played rhythmically on a foot pedal.
https://youtu.be/cduP4jvID-I

I melded two half whistles. Eventually I'lll copy the design in wood or metal.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1G_cuSgwOhM

Pop / Rock medley played on a Shaw 'A' whistle. With the help of an Akai clip-on woodwind mike, and a chorus peddle.
Stealers Wheel "Stuck in the middle with you", and Bachman-Turner Overdrive "You ain't seen nothing yet".
Whistles can do traditional *and* contemporary
[like those electric lute thingies... guitars, that's it]

https://youtu.be/MHW_h93H_0o

Huhupat wrote:I melded two half whistles. Eventually I'lll copy the design in wood or metal.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1G_cuSgwOhM

Interesting. See my two posts just above (July 17th and July 25th). Both these tunes are played using a strapped on drone whistle. Not using any holes on the drone though, like you are with your 'two half whistles', which means I can play the main whistle exactly as normal. But still a very nice (and different) sound.