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No it's a traditional whistle from Kyrgyzstan a friend of mine brought back from his home town. Theres a hole underneath as well, no it's not just under it's tail. Just thought I'd share it with you guys.

Not sure about the Scotts one or what this even is I'm actually doing. I suppose from what you're saying that it would be just trilling. It's like rrrruh rolling the r with the tip of the tongue. I asked because I wasn't sure if it was something usually done, I never heard of it before but I heard a...

Screeeech!!! wrote: tuh, duh, djuh, juh, kuh, luh, huh, guh, uh, nuh, quh, vuh. All can be used to add different emphasis and tone colour to notes.

Have you ever tried using Ruh rolling the R with your tongue?

Hey Phil, I'm in a popular tourist spot just 12km outside Dublin city center on the main (Dart) train line. It's a lovely fishing village called Howth that has plenty of bars and restaurants. Theres always sessions going on though more so at the weekends and they love people joining in. The Abbey ta...

I found this interesting BBC Radio 4 documentary on the newsgroups so I uploaded it for you guys to download. Enjoy!

http://www.esatclear.ie/~lorenzo/A_Bit_ ... histle.mp3

I have Cathal's tutorial but I didn't go through much of it. He may have mentioned tonguing as a method of control over the high notes but I don't remember. I think what he did say though about the transition to the higher notes AFAIR was to slide into them and keep them really short. As a newbie I ...

NicoMoreno wrote: Actually the more I think about it, I really don't like that tune all that much. I might tongue it, I guess, but I doubt I'd really play it much.

Well it's a very basic tune and just one I started off with but I'm a bit bored with it at this stage.

Cynth wrote:I'm just glad I'm not a whistle teacher in Dublin right now.

I'm sure you'd be delighted to be a teacher in any city right now

I really can't see how you could possibly play the likes of the Rakes of Mallow without some tonguing, it would just sound terrible. Again depending on the tune I would sometimes tongue 2 or 3 notes that are the same, instead of putting in cuts or rolls. I think you really need a bit of both to add...

NicoMoreno wrote: It was in direct response to Blaydo's post wherein he stated he didn't see how it was possible to make tunes with three notes in a row sound good. I was mostly responding to the idea that separating three notes without tonguing is impossible, which of course it isn't NicoMoreno: T...

I met a great whistle and uilleann pipes player from Donegal here in Dublin a while back and I asked him this very same question. He replied that he NEVER tongues but uses grace notes instead. I can't understand this though because I really can't see how you could possibly play the likes of the Rake...

Colomon, I'm practising it this last way you show, which is the text book way and I think I really need to learn it. I'm finding it a bit tricky getting a nice cut sound using the 3rd finger because of (I think) the fact that the first one isn't resting in it's place. I've no problem using this fing...

Thanks for the response.

Are you actually cutting there with 2 fingers or is that a mistake? Didn't know you could do that.

Thank you very much for your reply, it's much appreciated.. Don't get me wrong, I can play this tune reasonably well by cheating and using the 6 fingers for D instead of jumping back and forth like you need to do on 5 fingers. The only thing is that I have to cut the high D's with XXXX0X when I'm us...

Hello all, greetings from Ireland. I only started playing the whistle a few months ago so bare with me if I ask any silly questions. I'm using the 6 fingers for the high D for certain fast tunes only. For example one tune that I'm practising at the moment called 'the bag of spuds' which involves set...