Just play a bit every day and you'll get the hang of it.
Start listening to a much trad tunes and whistle playing as you can.... you get the tune in your head and you are half way there.
I'm sure some here could suggest some good players and music to start collecting.
It's just as important to know and enjoy the tunes as a listener as it is to try and learn to play them... if not more.
Your Feadóg is just fine.
I own a few rather expensive whistles and I'll be damn if I don't go back to my old Oak and Generations. As you mature in your playing you'll find one or a type you like best. I would suggest you stick to just one for a little while and get to know it while you are learning the basics.
Folks do tend to go though a massive whistle buying frenzy and I think it's perhaps good to see how they all play but I had a drawer full of what were absolutely awful whistles and when I went back to them a few years later I found out they must have improved with age... not unlike a good bottle of wine I suppose. Not sure how that happened.
Welcome and have fun!
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WOW really enjoyed the 2 youtube vids you put up, that was really impressive to watch and to listen too, i am inspired
Yeah, it's Aanvil his own self, after a year on the whistle, note too that he uses
a humble $10 Oak whistle. I'm no great judge of ITM, but I'd say it ROCKS!
kaizersoza wrote:welcome to the forum, i am a newbie and i use this site on an hourly basis, the guys on here are as mad as a box of frogs, but boy do they know their stuff, you have come to the right place, good luck with your whistling
I prefer "Crazier than a snake's armpit". So long as we aren't as stupid as a box of hammers we might be okay.
Feadogs are fine. (Not as good as my own, of course... )
yeah, I just had that same impulse to buy the "cheapie" ... a Walton D and now its tough decision whether to "read" Chiff & Fipple forum or "practice" playing the whistle. what's more important? my impulse came right after listening to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yxn_sNjJbRI
That is some awesome playing. I still haven't gotten to fully appreciate of the low whistles as I spent the last year or so learning tunes on the high whistle. But I have listened to that YouTube many, many of times. Simply beautiful... and hauntingly serene.
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Rayne wrote:Hi. *waves*
This is my first post here.
Last night I heard a piece of music played on a whistle (no idea what it was, but I liked it), and I decided there and then that I had to learn to play. Being the middle of the night of course I couldn't just nip out to the shops and get one.
But I did today. Impulse purchase FTW!
Cayden wrote:Rayne,
Welcome to C & F. Beware of whistlepigs!
Slainte,
Cayden
Rayne isn't new...and she defo must have sprayed too much Impulse
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