Celtic Music - The Tin Whistle

The Tin Whistle (sometimes also a PENNYWHISTLE) is a simple and inexpensive instrument. It is simply a metal tube with six finger holes and a mouthpiece (similar to a recorder), it has a range of about two octaves. The costs range from a few dollars to a few hundred dollars - despite playing some of the best players, only the cheaper brands.

The tin whistle is a simple tool - and it is easy to play and easy to play soft melodies. But - it is not easy to master! The instrument cancheap, but you must pay for the championship ... by practicing! The haunting melodies whistling from the movie "Titanic" show the deep soul found in this instrument.

This is a common instrument made of metal (usually brass made) with a pipe-shaped mouthpiece. By opening the game (not for each of the six finger holes), then for each finger hole again, you can play the 7 notes in a diatonic (a simple Do-Re-Mi scale - mainly the white keys) on a piano scale. Blow a little bitdifficult and you get to play the same note but an octave higher. Although it is a diatonic instrument, you can achieve sharps and flats for over half of finger holes.

Since it is essentially open only two notes - one note, then the note an octave higher if you blow - any tin whistle is said to represent a specific key. For example, if the open tone sounds like a "D", then the pipe is as in the key of D. Many players wear a small group of pipes are in thecommonly used buttons.

Some people do not know, you can even tune a tin whistle! They do this by using the metal barrel of the whistle in and out the nozzle head. Some pipes have their heads firmly in the running adhesives. You can usually loosen the glue that came by the part under running water. Do not use boiling water - this can melt the plastic whistle head!

Key signatures are often found in Celtic music, "D Major" and "G major". By default, all tin areWhistles are in a major key (because they play a diatonic scale). However, if you start your scale) are covered with all the finger holes (open instead of all the finger holes, then you get one step higher than a diatonic scale - the results in a minor key-! For example, a tin whistle in "D" in E minor, play when you start by clicking the scales, all finger holes. Interestingly enough, the chord progression "in E minor" and "D Major" is commonly found in Celtic music. (This isthe same chord progression in "What would you use with a Drunken Sailor.") A whistle in G Major Do "could easily have played in A minor (A minor and G) is another commonly occurring chord progression.

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