So I guess the Kerry Optima F is just not for me (it is a great whistle but probably best played on stage or in a large open room)Īnd therefore I will also probably never buy a Goldie like I was planning. I never would have thought something like this could happen when playing a low whistle. So there's two factors at play that make a whistle "problematic" for me - frequency and sound pressure. It is still ringing in my ears while writing this. So when playing the 2nd octave on a low D for example it is more penetrating than the 1st octave on a standard D.Īnd the kitchen amplified it. So they produce much more sound pressure than a standard thinwhistle. The "problem" with the low whistles in my opinion is that there is much more air vibrating inside the whistle, I should maybe explain that my left ear is slightly damaged since I was in my twenties, so for 20 years now.Īnd I do get tinnitus sometimes. It is a low F but the tune goes all the way up to the end of the 2nd octave. Those irritated by grain of sand best avoid beach.Įxactly. (my cat likes it better on the lower whistle as well. Of course you can play it exactly the same on ANY key of whistle, and I'm liking it on my Bb whistles. But this one image was randomly on Pinterest and I was able to use it to play the carol from the key of G position for a D whistle. Atchley's site or book online (maybe one of you can find it?) as it'd be nice to buy his tab or at least thank him or link to him. I found a nice whistle tab to it online as well, by a John Atchley: Yet it sounds more complicated to play than it really is. Bring a Torch, Jeannette, Isabella has lots of interesting parts to it and is an old carol (I'm not generally as fond of modern carols). Ok, so I discovered that one of my favorite Christmas carols is actually not too hard to play on the whistle.