It's a jig originally from Scotland - a nice tune, and good for practising that G# note if you play the tune repeatedly, rather slowly and keeping your timing consistent.
If you mean tunes you can play on the A whistle so that they come out in the normal session keys, I use the A whistle for these:
The Bear Reel (finger it in A/Am, comes out in E/Em)
The Dawn (finger in D, comes out in A)
The Mason's Apron (finger in G, comes out in D)
The great thing about the A whistle is you can play the actual entire tunes the way they're played on fiddle, accordion, or banjo.
There are quite a few tunes which are most often heard in G but you run into fiddlers that play them in D. The A whistle does this transposition for you.
Also, an E whistle is handy for the tunes flute/whistle/pipe players play in G but fiddlers sometimes prefer to play in A such as Foxhunter's Reel. You just finger the tune in G but it comes out in A.
Tunes for Whistle in A?
Tunes for Whistle in A?
Can anybody give some hints? I love the sound of my new whistle, but getting bored playing just High Road to Linton all the time
Thanks.
# Posted on July 18th 2009 by baruskaob
Re: Tunes for Whistle in A?
Many tunes in D can be easily played on the A whistle. Just start three holes up.
# Posted on July 18th 2009 by CleverName
Re: Tunes for Whistle in A?
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/11
seems to go pretty well for the whistle player in our session.
# Posted on July 18th 2009 by Henk Bos
Re: Tunes for Whistle in A?
The Stool Of Repentance.
It's a jig originally from Scotland - a nice tune, and good for practising that G# note if you play the tune repeatedly, rather slowly and keeping your timing consistent.
# Posted on July 19th 2009 by nicholas
Re: Tunes for Whistle in A?
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/4597
# Posted on July 19th 2009 by Kenny
Re: Tunes for Whistle in A?
If you mean tunes you can play on the A whistle so that they come out in the normal session keys, I use the A whistle for these:
The Bear Reel (finger it in A/Am, comes out in E/Em)
The Dawn (finger in D, comes out in A)
The Mason's Apron (finger in G, comes out in D)
The great thing about the A whistle is you can play the actual entire tunes the way they're played on fiddle, accordion, or banjo.
There are quite a few tunes which are most often heard in G but you run into fiddlers that play them in D. The A whistle does this transposition for you.
Also, an E whistle is handy for the tunes flute/whistle/pipe players play in G but fiddlers sometimes prefer to play in A such as Foxhunter's Reel. You just finger the tune in G but it comes out in A.
# Posted on July 19th 2009 by Richard D Cook