Your mouth joins with these spare fingers to hold the instrument in place when needed.
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It’s a pipe that you make longer and shorter by adding and subtracting covered holes.I'm a member of Tin Whistle/Pennywhistle Resource, Tin Whistle, and The Irish Tin Whistle. Facebook has some groups you might consider joining members post videos and discuss various models and techniques.Any folk music sales website should have a variety of models to browse among some sites that I know of (and have bought from!) are the best, but each site has a different selection) there’s a fun and crazy site called that has articles as well as sales.Here's another link to my video demonstrating the sounds and characteristics of twelve of the models I own and play.High-end whistles include Chieftain by Phil Hardy (I play these a lot, as well as Shaw and Susato), Overton, O’Reardon, Burke, Sweetheart, Thin Weasel, and Copeland - many of which seem to go in and out of active production…!.
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And a new favorite of mine is the series of Jerry Freeman tweaked whistles, which he has personally gone over and adjusted in great detail for a reasonable price and wonderful sound I especially like the Bluebird and Mellow Dog models! Dixon is also a fine brand. What I consider the biggest next step up from this price range is Susato, ( made in USA of finely-crafted ABS plastic also Shaw is excellent, again with a different shape and sound.Please know that these are all fine whistles, and you can play really good music on them!
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Other good brands in this same range include Oak, Feadog, Walton’s, and Sweetone (made by Clarke, who also make the Meg, the least expensive of all). Your local music store may well have a cardboard display of Generation “flageolets”: these are the most common whistle and don't cost much, but also they're the ones played by none other than the wonderful Chieftains group from Ireland! You may find that these stores also stock Clarke whistles, just a little more expensive, with a different kind of sound.Well, I think you can at least attempt it, especially since there are a lot of pretty good whistles available for less than twenty dollars in most music stores! And they have only six holes that produce the regular do-re-mi scale! Hopefully you can come up with a decent sound with a little exploration I’ve compiled here a list of helpful ideas that I’ve amassed over the past thirty-some years as I’ve been playing whistle and sharing what I know with other players: Other folks won’t even attempt it, afraid that they’ll sound horrible. At some point in their lives, many casual musicians and serious players of other instruments pick up a simple “pennywhistle” or “tin whistle” and try to play it for fun or as a special extra sound along with their other music.