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I worked with a group of mentally challenged youths last week, playing hand drums and singing. They were good.
I know they were good because there were tears in my eyes.

I pray that some day I will be that good.[/u]

I just thought I would say hello, having ghosted through the forum for a while and made some uninformative posts. I am a rehabilitated bandmaster (What's the difference between a bull and a band?) who has moved to a small island in the Straight of Georgia to raise kids and asparagus. The asparagus i...

134 instruments later, she still loves me. Perhaps it's not the size of the whistle... .

Cool! I thought I was the only WX5 geek. Any tips for a neophyte?

From the point of view of arranging for mixed instruments, whisltles are named wrong - well, just different. If an instrument is non-transposing in the treble clef, it is a C instrument, regardless of it's fundemental (in the arranger's paradigm). Don't read on if you've never transposed. D whistles...

D flat is the tradidional (?) key for orchestral and wind-band piccolos, as well as being easier to handle in nasty key sigs. The Holst suites, complete with Morris dances, specify Db picc, but modern editions also have C picc parts. Always thought that whistle would sound better in Holst, though.