Mr.Gumby wrote:
To someone saying they'll move on to the Bergin tutor though i'd suggest moving away quickly or prepare themselves for a fair amount of backpedalling and relearning.
I think it's a great misconception that's alive and well on the forums that if you pick up a whistle you will have to learn all the cuts and rolls and what have you. These things and how they are used are very music specific. So you learn them as appropriate to the music you're playing.
Fair enough, and thanks!

However, most of the more detailed and comprehensive tutorials I've seen seem to be oriented to specifically Irish trad whistle, perfectly understandably. For someone in my situation, without the desire to necessarily dedicate myself to a single tradition, but wanting to improve my whistling as much as my circumstances will allow,...well I'm at a bit of a loss.
I'm planning to order the Bill Ochs book-&-cd (when my wallet replenishes), because it has music from many sources. But I gather it's instruction is pretty much targeted at beginners. All the non-tradition-specific tutorials I've seen seem to be targeted at beginners - if I'm missing some, please let me know!

And while that's appropriate for me now, I
am going to want to move beyond that at some point. And as Mr. Gumby says, early choices have consequences down the line.
Is that just the nature of the beast? To move beyond beginner stage one needs to choose a tradition?
Hmmm, I'm getting too philosophical here, I think.

It's past my bed-time down here in the antipodes, so I'm off to the land of nod.
'Night all, and thanks again for the thought-provoking!
Cheers
Marc E