Intro to TIN WHISTLE! | Team Recorder
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- An introduction to the tin whistle!
(Also known as Irish whistle, penny whistle, plus a bit of low whistle..)
Here I tell you a bit about where they come from, their physical attributes, how they are played, different brands, what music you can play on them, and of course a lot of sound comparisons!
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In this video I mention:
Irish tune resource 'The Session'
- thesession.org
'Is Cuimhin Liom' by Darragh Kearns-Hayes
• Is cuimhin liom - Darr...
'The Tin Whistle Experiment' by Darragh Kearns-Hayes
• Tin Whistle - Finger T...
'Eleven' by Mr Yellow Jacket (me on low whistle)
• ELEVEN (Irish whistle...
/// INSTRUMENTS
I play on:
- Clarke whistle in D
- Chieftain whistles in D. low G and low D
- Generation whistles in G, F, Eb, D, and C
- a 442 soprano recorder by Moeck
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Whenever I feel unmotivated to practice recorder (and soon the whistle) I picture myself as a freaking Satyr, dancing and playing beautifully with no trouble, mesmerizing travellers and luring them into the woods so I can trap them in the feywild.
Omg hahahahaha, I love this, now I know how to motive my self either xd
Or the pied piper luring the children away from their parents as a punishment towards humanity for not keeping its promise
The wonderful thing about the whistle is it puts music within the reach of anybody. For just a few pounds you can buy a perfectly playable instrument and start having fun. One thing you didn't mention is, if you are thinking about buying a first whistle then the key of D is the best place to start. That way you can play along with the tutorials here on YT. That's how I started, I don't claim to be any good but I'm loving the journey. Great post.
And all of the tunes I have are written in the key D. Some tunes are in G, but meant for a D whistle anyway, as it's easy to play in G on a D whistle within a certain range.
yes and no :) Low D for a first whistle might be a mistake? however, High D would be ideal. the wide spaced finger holes on a low D instrument could create a possibly insurmountable challenge for inexperienced players (dont ask) haha
they're also really easy to learn compared to other instruments! practice for a few weeks/months and you'll already be able to attend trad sessions, few years and you can be a virtuoso!
First, and most importantly, 3:40.
Secondly, what a lovely and enthusiastic introduction to whistles.
Thanks for the great video Sarah and well done for giving a shout out for English Traditional Music.
England has a rich folk music history and a diverse repertoire, and it's great to hear it mentioned here.
Happy playing everyone :)
I gotta get back tin whistle playing! Thanks for the video Sarah!
Best introduction I've ever seen. Thank you.
Just the video I was looking for! So well done!
A tutorial devoted to the full range of cross fingerings to make a chromatic whistle would be a great boon!
Amazing playing. Very natural video style. Thank you.
Great video Sarah! I got a Tony Dixon high wistle for my birtday. It's tuneable and made of plastic, I love the sound!
I used it a little while ago to play in a wedding service in an coustic setting band, worked perfectly in the church acoustics and the bride and groom loved it! :D
Bless you. This video is an exceptional tool for learning this instrument for orchestration.
Never clicked so fast on a notification! I love the sound of a tin whistle, greetings from MX
Thank you! I didn't know how to hit the high D in my clarke sweet tone until you showed me!
Proof that a good musician can make even the cheapest instrument sound good
Just lovely!
I’m a pianist and organist but I appreciate how fun they are to play and gorgeous the recorder and all the wind instruments sound, team recorder power
organ is my favinstrument
My favorite music teacher. :)
Because.....physics....!
Simples 😍
Because an open first hole on the whistle is like playing natural harmonics on a guitar (on the 12th or 7th fret..depending on whether you close all the other holes or just the 2nd and 3rd.
Me:
There’s no way a recorder/whistle channel would work
Also me:
Ooooooooooh a new video!! Eeeeeeeeee!
Yaaaaay
You’re just a doll Sarah , love your videos 😊
Happy new year 😎 your vlogs are cool 😊
Happy New Year from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil!
New Year, New Great Videos!
I was thrilled to see you do a video on tin whistles! In fact, I wish you’d do more! I’m teaching myself to play the alto recorder, having been a modern flute player in an orchestra setting for approximately 10 years some time ago.
At the same time I purchased my Yamaha 312 recorder, I also bought a Feadog Pro High D whistle and set it aside to concentrate on the recorder. But this past week, I found myself drawn to the whistle every day. I’m compelled to overcome the tonal challenges of the 2nd octave and transitioning between octaves. I can reach the higher notes, but I feel like I’m in “attack mode” when I do! I don’t remember ever having this embouchure issue while learning to play the flute, but it’s very humbling.
Anyway, I hope you’ll do more whistle videos because you make it seem effortless to go between the recorder and the whistle, and I’m sure you can offer some excellent advice!
Nice that you included South Africa in the countries where the whistle is played. I became aware of the pennywhistle through the videos of the S. African pop group Mango Groove.
Thanks for the whistle love 👍
wow... very good
Nice video about the Tin Whistle! 😊 👍
Hey!!!! Happy new year!!!! Let's go 2019.
Yes!!! Finally Sarah ....that was very helpful video...you are an amazing musician ❤️
I had 2 tin whistle for Christmas xD Thank you for the video
Amazing!!! Please do as many of whistle videos as you possibly can!
And do an ocarina video, too! 😊 🎼 ♫
OMG I'm watching this again and noticed your Irish accent noice and I'm rolling in laughter cause it's accurate!!!
Hapy New Year Sarah !!!!!
mmm more random knowledge to impress my friends with at the pub.
Happy new year!
Greetings from Orange County California. I'm no rank amateur with the whistle, but I can only dream of my fingers flying over it like yours do. Good show.
I like your pronunciation and playing. Thanks
Love to see you start a Irish Whistle channel. I saw some vids you did about 4 years back with some great experimentation. I know you probably have little time...but just a hope. Amazing. Thanks. Steve Clark. Australia.
Yes. I have watched a number of her vids. Thanks.
I loved your introduction! (And your accent!) I play the flute and I like to explore new boundaries through all the woodwind instruments.. My brothers recently bought me a 'quena', the way you have to put your fingers is a little bit different and not easy at all but you should try it sometime. Its sound is charming, too. Thanks for your post! Greetings from Argentina!
I thought that was an old video. I should turn my notifications on. I bought an alto recorder last week thanks to you ((:
And I bought both an Alto and a Tenor and have started to learn how to read music again,,, after 36 years
New life for me, I made my old Aunt cry with my newly mastered "Silent Night"
And I just ordered the plastic Mollenhauer Adris Dream because of Sarah.
Love her videos!
I started off playing the tin whistle last year and got a bit bored of having to wait for tabs tutorial on TH-cam 😂 soon after I found team recorder and started learning how to play the recorder . I adore the sound of recorders and the repertoire. I love my whistles but I feel like I have more flexibility with one recorder.
A large part of Irish music tradition is learning to play by ear. Aside from that, there's a lovely Welsh lady (CutiePie) who has a channel devoted exclusively to helping beginners learn popular tunes on the whistle.
I think tin whistles sound even more distinct than the flute. When she plays, I always think of the DCOM The Luck of the Irish. _🌈_
Thanks. Very interesting and useful
The large whistle sounds so much like a flute!
I ordered an irish whistle, I had no idea you played those too!!!! I guess I know where to go for info about that.
I am a Scottish fiddler and whenever someone is like
“do you have the music for this” I’m like give me a second
*me opens up the session on my phone*
“Here you go!”
Happy New Year 2022
Sarah you're beautiful and talented and your content is fantastically educational. Thankyou!
Thanks! I'm a guitar player, nothing to do with whistles, but in the recent years I just got to know and love celtic music, especially things like Lunasa or Dervish for example, and I finally decided to buy a tin whistle just yesterday! I can't wait for it to be delivered! Thanks for the video, it was very helpful, as I know virtually nothing, aside from a couple of small things they taught me in the early years of school on a cheap recorder.
You should totally listen to Omnia if you haven't already :D
When I started many years ago, I got two books, Geraldine Cotter's and L.E. McCullough's. I much preferred Cotter's.
At 03:40 after hearing the pitch change, I made the exact same face :o Thank you for this very valuable information. I really didn't know there was a reliably tunable whistle.
Woooo I got a whistle for Christmas !!!
The expensive one might be louder but the cheap one had a open more folk sound to it. But what do I know I'm a North Carolina bluegrass player and never played Irish music.
I've written chamber ensemble pieces that include the English and/or French seven-keyed flageolet--an instrument that seems to me as well-suited for involvement in complex chromatic polyphony as the recorder.
Sarah, I really enjoyed the video. When I first started playing the tin whistle, someone told me that if you immerse the plastic head in boiling water for a brief time, it melts the glue and you can pull the head off. After that, you can tune them just fine.
Oh I forgot to say that it works!
Just to throw it out there... I have a tin whistle with a thumb hole on the back!
Great video, didn't know you played tin whistle too!
Because of this video i made an Irish whistle from a multilayered water pipe and it was so good to play
THEEEEEEEN
I accidentally found a feadog key of D in junk store in a touristic place in Tunisia, i took it for less than 2 $ !!!
Thanks for the video. Tin whistles are really a great invention. Isn't it funny how low the low whistle appears to sound when, in fact, it isn't that low at all? With D above Middle C as its lowest note, it's still a soprano instrument, like a flute or an oboe.
"My heart will go on " was actually the first piece of music I learnt on my flute ...now I think this would be more fun (mostly easier) for me to play on tin whistles .
"My heart will go on" is a great song... Just "perhaps" played too many times.
Sarah, thanks for all of this (and I love your enthusiasm). Talking the other night with a performer about his tin whistles and noticed they DO have thumb holes. Is that something new? Or just expensive? I'm just learning, mostly in the hope of restoring some lung power/breath control
Cool video! Subbed! I've been recording some tin whistle over the last couple of days. (It's not my instrument really). I like the look of those tunable ones. Mine seem to have gone 44% of a semitone sharp from concert pitch. I had to do some backing tracks for the whistle parts and sharpen them.
I can't wait to get mine in the mail. :3
8:32 If you're enamored with your "all-time favorite": "My Heart Will Go On," you'll love it's counterpart from the same movie and from same composer: "Unable to Stay, Unwilling to Leave." 😊 ♫
I have played the tin whistle for many years and found the Clark original is flute like in sound.
Also ,you don't have to play Irish tunes as the whistle covers many other types of music, I for example like to play classical tunes and English folk songs.
Happy New Year to everyone.
I love you, greater flutist
Nice! Thanks!
Great to see some Tin Whistle content, I follow Dean at @TinWhistleTV as in sure he would love your content on the Tin Whistle as he is trying to learn the Tub Whistle.
Thanks a lot for the information :)
The tin whistle is a great instrument, I love playing mine. Great video.
The Tin Whistle is also played in Traditional Provincial South African Music called Kwela. It’s a very beaitiful form of music with many similarities to Jazz.
It's unfortunate that Kwela Music is so seldom written down. Most of what we have are brilliant recordings. th-cam.com/video/qqSUdhsaYGU/w-d-xo.html
I wanted to mention Kwêla music. I am South African and used to (badly) play "Special Star" by Mango Groove in B flat on a C whistle.
@@WayneKitching Thanks for sharing that with me. I didn't realize I listened to that before, till I looked it up. Nice to relisten to a good classic.
Playing in B flat on a C Whistle, that's pretty nifty, I find it extremely difficult to play a Chromatic notes on the whistle.
It'd be cool to visit various places in Africa, South Africa probably being one of them in the future. I hope things get better over there. Thanks for sharing.
Really fun. I love tin whistles. Thank you and Happy New Year.
Very good
Wikipedia says flutes have been reliably dated back to 40,000 years ago. I wonder what the source is for the 80k years ago. Maybe a different type of carved flute or whistle. Impressive we've had music so long!
The Low G whistle looks like a heavy metal Drop D bass guitar of the flute world. Great video.
I enjoy your videos Sarah but I would be really interested in your opinion about the Chalumeau ?
Great video Sarah, do you have a playlist for the Tin Whistles?
Apologies for no whistle content: what is your preferred method for members of your fandom to communicate with you? I don't have a big problem with the wide-open way it's done on TH-cam (e.g., comments on a whistle video including a request for a jazz recorder session), but it seems inefficient. Happy New Year!
Hi! Depends what for: business enquiries can be sent to info@sarahjeffery.com
For questions about recorder/music you can shoot them to me here, or on twitter or instagram (@sockmyshoe) and I’ll respond when I can. For long/detailed questions, you can try me on Patreon. I get a lot of messages through facebook too but rarely have time to check the ones not from friends! Hope that helps!
@@Team_Recorder I'd be greatly obliged if you would devote a segment to legato playing. You must have some tips and favorite exercises for smoothing out the rough bits? I know there's really no substitute for putting in the time with a metronome and a ruthless ear, but maybe you can offer some advice and optimism?
My bad -- you've done it already. There it is, July 6, 2017, in a Q&A segment, and quite helpful it is, too.
Yeah, you can play any music on any instrument just as long as you like it and can transpose it/get a score for it.
Because...physics, (scrunches face). :) Good video. Thanks.
0:50 Now THIS is beautiful.
Buon Anno Sarah 👍🐶😀😀
Penny whistles are also fun crafting projects. I made one myself out of pvc pipe and some wood and all I needed were a hacksaw, a ruler, a pencil, a pocket knife, a pair of scissors, and a phone (calculator and tuner).
I don't really understand if it's a low g or a g, so I'll say that the G it is tuned to is G4, which is typically the 4th G on a piano, or the g string of a ukulele (tuned re-entrantly)
I have a little question, I've played the flute for quite a while and I was wondering if you need to clean the inside of the whistle after playing like you would with a flute or other woodwind?
Happy new year for all family ! Will You show some hiper-simple yet catchy tunes for whistle in the future?
Check out tutorials by Cutiepie.
"because physics" xD great video
I was curious about the tin whistle because of Eluveitie.. it sounds very cool in their folk metal style xd
Those low whistles are amazing! Do you think they're something I could play being a 5'3" shortie with small hands? Thank you so much for your wonderful content and all of your enthusiasm!
You should have no problem. Go at it.
I already know how to play the tin whistle, but still. I'd recommend this to advanced players. Just to refresh on your memory.
I like to play asian melodies with my whistles!!! The sound is so awesome 😍😍😍
Thanks!
Good video! I write only to say that "El cóndor pasa", as a folk South American song, it is played with a "quena", a sort of wooden whistle, where the mouthpiece is open at the top, with the bevel starting there. Better explained here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quena.
Thank you for the reference!
Sarah, could you do something on the intro to Irish Heartbeat by Van Morrison. Are they using a recorder or a tin whistle? Could you do the notes and/or tab to this intro?
I started using Susato ones because they just produce a lot more volume for pubs or for me at the time to play along with a pipe organ. I honestly just like the sound more now. I use my generation ones when I need to be quiter lol.
New years - 2024. New goal for me :)
Hi Sarah, do you have any tipps for the overblown notes? I'm teaching myself to play the tin whistle and I struggle with the high notes. I often don't get them clearly / purely.
I love road to California. Just happy and bouncy
Omg I love Sarah’s videos so much! I was wondering how common is it for recorder players to double on tin whistles? I’m always trying to be more like you on my channel, thanks for the inspiration!
Yeah Ive only known one other recorder player to double, but they doubled traverse flute... I dont know that many recorder players...
I also wondered this!?
Good question! When I was back in England it was quite common amongst my folkie friends.
Lol Folkie where do people play tin wisltes like fairs or in concert halls,... that might be a dumb question i guess
i suppose it is likely to be common. as common as clarinet players doubling as saxophone players.
@Team_Recorder thank you for this insight. I play many wind instruments but my favourite by far is the harmonica which is also diatonic. A key part of playing Diatonic Harmonica is to play in different "positions" (eg. a C harmonica can be played in 2nd position as G or 12th as F) Is this also done on diatonic whistles or are they always played in the prescribed key? Thanks.
Because physics....... You are great, sarah...
This is awesome!! Thank you where would u recommend to buy these online? Specifically your low D one? Or the cheap ones as I would like to expand my collection hehe
For modest priced I recommend Goldfinch in Poland. The whistles Sarah reviews have links in the description.
I have C and D tinwhistles, currently ABS because I hate the sound of the metal ones, but honestly I much prefer the versatility of the Recorder, although the Tim whistles are sometimes handy for octave tremolos that don't work on Recorder. Still the tinwhistles mostly stay in my bag.