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I believe this hornpipe is played on a Dixon...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slkyttrYYFY

Well, the whistle has a high-pitched sound that is pretty piercing. As people pointed out, Irish traditional music is pretty repetitive in nature, and if you're practicing certain songs, or parts of songs, over and over, that's just going to drive people crazy. Furthermore, hardly any instrument (an...

Busking is a good way to get a lot of practice. I survived by busking for three months in Paris, 30+ years ago. I was playing recorder and/or flute, not whistle. I'd play until I had enough for my room and whatever I hoped to eat that day; then I'd quit. Some days I was done in an hour; some days we...

I've already run into this problem--where to practice, without driving everybody crazy? My present solution is to practice outdoors in the woods when I walk my dog. I ordered the one-piece Tony Dixon polymer D whistle, too. From what people have written, it's a quieter instrument, and not too harsh ...

Being new at this, my feeling about whistles is similar to my feeling about golf clubs. That is, I refuse to spend money on "good" clubs while my game is rubbish. I've asked good players to try my clubs and then watched them hit beautiful shots with them, so I know it can be done. Likewise...

At the moment I'm switching back and forth. I'll probably succumb to WhOAD very soon in any case. I like the feel of the Walton in my hands, but as I get used to playing them, I find that I'm getting a better sound from the Sweetone. Who knows what'll happen when the Feadog arrives? How is that pron...

I appreciate the replies. My point really wasn't "which whistle is better," although it may have come across that way. I suspect I'll discover that different playing styles will work better on different whistles and, true enough, I don't have a playing style yet. As for the thumb hole ques...

Ah, good idea, I'll try that tape idea. And yes, I forgot the file names were there...d'oh! You may have a bias concerning the two instruments, but now that I've listened to the recording a few more times, I have to say that the Walton sounds a bit hoarser--which is odd, because as I was recording t...

Hello. I'm new to this stuff, but I thought I'd try this anyway. A few years ago, when I was a tourist in Ireland, I picked up a Walton Mellow D whistle at the gift shop at Bunratty Castle, in Shannon. I played with it a bit on that day, then it got put away when I got home, and I forgot about it. A...