Life long Clarinet/Sax player here. The hole placement on a C whistle fits under the fingers. All down= D as read for Tnr Sax. To my mind a C whistle= an instrument in Bb but transposed up a tone as we would read a part. Confused? I didn't explain it well but it works. It's fun to play & sounds great thanks to your videos on tweeking. You play lovely & I've learned so much from you. Thank you for sharing. ❤
I bought a very secondhand Clarke C whistle earlier this year (from a stall at a folk dance festival) and I just fell in love with how it played perfectly instantly without me even trying - but I did notice the metal around the mouthpiece being a bit dented in a way that didn't look original, plus it wasn't round like yours but more flattened - plus there's some paint missing on top which I've just assumed was someone biting down while playing but now I'm thinking it's maybe from a hammer which would make sense now! What a cool discovery, thank you
I don't know if it was supposed to be this way, but my Clarke Original arrived virtually unplayable. Unreal air requirements, and "barely there" was the best volume it would give me. Figuring I had nothing to lose, I checked out your video. Just pressed it down hard on a pad of paper to undome it a little bit and used a pocket knife to better line up the fipple blade with the air stream. It's fun now! Still demands some air but not unreasonably so and has a lovely breathy quality compared to my other whistles. So thanks for this!!!
Tin whistle is tin whistle is tin whistle. Fipple at the top, tube with holes. It's physics based, not a weird affectation. Lookup Nicolas Bras, he loves to explore the different ways he can use PVC pipes and different mouthpieces to generate sound(from digeridoo to tin whistle to bagpipes which all use a tube and holes and air to shape sound). An "Arabic pennywhistle" is just a tin whistle with the holes in different places to hit the Arabic scale rather than the "normal" scales you get on a "normal" tin whistle. FWIW, they wouldn't have used pennywhistles, they'd probably have used a "ney/nay/nai/whatever" instead. Very similar instrument in that it uses a tube and holes in a very similar fashion/fingering, but mostly flutes and not whistles. And the reason they're expensive is because they're only available from expensive(custom mostly) whistle makers. They seem to charge the exact same amount for the Arabic tuning as for a normal tuned whistle.
Life long Clarinet/Sax player here. The hole placement on a C whistle fits under the fingers.
All down= D as read for Tnr Sax. To my mind a C whistle= an instrument in Bb but transposed up a tone as we would read a part.
Confused? I didn't explain it well but it works.
It's fun to play & sounds great thanks to your videos on tweeking.
You play lovely & I've learned so much from you.
Thank you for sharing. ❤
I bought a very secondhand Clarke C whistle earlier this year (from a stall at a folk dance festival) and I just fell in love with how it played perfectly instantly without me even trying - but I did notice the metal around the mouthpiece being a bit dented in a way that didn't look original, plus it wasn't round like yours but more flattened - plus there's some paint missing on top which I've just assumed was someone biting down while playing but now I'm thinking it's maybe from a hammer which would make sense now! What a cool discovery, thank you
that blues riff you played was amazing.
no way! Thanks
I don't know if it was supposed to be this way, but my Clarke Original arrived virtually unplayable. Unreal air requirements, and "barely there" was the best volume it would give me. Figuring I had nothing to lose, I checked out your video. Just pressed it down hard on a pad of paper to undome it a little bit and used a pocket knife to better line up the fipple blade with the air stream. It's fun now! Still demands some air but not unreasonably so and has a lovely breathy quality compared to my other whistles. So thanks for this!!!
Sometimes there's a bad one I guess. I've had that happen with other brands too
Using a clamp on the sides while flattening the top might keep them from bulging out. Thanks! 🌞🎅🏻🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎄
Thanks for the tip
what is the difference between C and D?
the natural scale on a D is Dmajor and C is a tone lower, so the natural scale is Cmajor. Hope that helps.
I have a question. Is this the same as the arabic pennywistles?, di they play the same sounds? Because those are very expensive and i really want one.
Tin whistle is tin whistle is tin whistle. Fipple at the top, tube with holes. It's physics based, not a weird affectation. Lookup Nicolas Bras, he loves to explore the different ways he can use PVC pipes and different mouthpieces to generate sound(from digeridoo to tin whistle to bagpipes which all use a tube and holes and air to shape sound).
An "Arabic pennywhistle" is just a tin whistle with the holes in different places to hit the Arabic scale rather than the "normal" scales you get on a "normal" tin whistle. FWIW, they wouldn't have used pennywhistles, they'd probably have used a "ney/nay/nai/whatever" instead. Very similar instrument in that it uses a tube and holes in a very similar fashion/fingering, but mostly flutes and not whistles.
And the reason they're expensive is because they're only available from expensive(custom mostly) whistle makers. They seem to charge the exact same amount for the Arabic tuning as for a normal tuned whistle.