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Tommy wrote:That's great. Can you make us a sound clip.

I could try but how do i post it? does it need to be hosted or can i upload it here?

:lol: I would be pleased too! I have not made a lot of progress in that area, although I guess I have worked out one or two tunes that I already sort of knew as songs with a little help from the notes when I couldn't sing a weird interval properly. If you know the tune pretty well already, it reall...

All i can suggest is, that if you play the guitar you could try to notate each note out for that song. the first chord is D...so............... D............ At first flash of Eden we ... So the first note you will play on your whistle will be either a 'D' note, an 'F#' note or an 'A' note. all of w...

Which I was very pleased with, but it was the theme tune to that old comedy series Blackadder .....


I suppose we all have to start somewhere.....

http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepage ... histle.doc


Maybe it's more suitable for people like me who haven't been playing for very long, but maybe there's something to interest long timers as well ?

I made my own case out of a scrap of old cloth and old pillow fillings. it's very bucolic looking and roughly hand sewn but it does the job.

Twinkle Twinkle Little Star: D D A A B B A, G G F# F# E E D Oh Susanna: D E F# A A B A F# D E F# F# E D E Baa Baa Black Sheep: D D A A B C# D' B A, G G F# F# E E D Happy Birthday to you: D D E D G F#, D D E D A G, D D D' B G F# E, C C B G A G Lots more here. http://www.geocities.com/whistleandsqueak...

Hmm.. i find the easier version harder! i like the one i posted as it contains more lower notes, typical awkward me !

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I was messing about earlier and came across them.

HI I have been teaching myself to play Greensleeves. http://sniff.numachi.com/~rickheit/dtrad/wscores/GRNSLVS-D.gif but some of the notes are not playable on my D whistle notably the notes with the '#' after them, any way round this or is it best to just try and play round them and miss them out?? :...

[/quote] Also try playing any tune reeeealy sloooowly. You'll be surprised at what you can make sound sad. HTH[/quote] Most of the tunes people have posted I just get lost on :( I think it's gonna have to be 'Old macdonald had a farm' played slowly for now & that playing slowly idea works well 8)

Something not too hard for a newbie to play but something that has 'that' sound....

if you could give me a link too, it would be much appreciated.


I was looking at John Dowland but its way above me yet! maybe someone knows some thing like some Gregorian chant type tunes ?

:-? Are they not a good make ? You may want to read about generation whistles here. http://www.chiffandfipple.com/inexp.html The difficult thing about Generation whistles is poor quality control, on the one hand, while on the other hand, if you can find a “good” Generation, you’ll often find yourse...

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Yeah EXACTLY like that !

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Are they not a good make ?

Hi Eddie :) I've only been playing for two weeks myself, but it is a seriously addicting little instrument, i have hardly touched my guitar in these two weeks! http://sniff.numachi.com/~rickheit/dtrad/aidx/tidxA.html this was a good site for showing whistle TAB as it's called ...'The little black do...