Penny whistle

In this article, I want to introduce one of the musical instruments traditional Irish music - Penny whistle.Also, they called Tin whistle or whistle just for short. People can often.change with Irish flute.It is a simple wind instrument about 20 cm long. Modern penny whistle is native to the British Isles (England). Original material from which the whistle is produced and the produced timber. Over time and with the advent of the modern era began to produce a metal whistle. The factory production of Irish whistle came late nineteenth century, Robert Clarke and founded a long tradition. Until 1900, they were marketed as "Clarke London flageolets" or "Clarke flageolets Under this brand is manufactured whistle today.

Nowadays the most common pipes made of brass or nickel-plated brass tube pipe with a plastic mouthpiece. Another common form is conical metal with a wooden whistle stop in the wide end forming a mouthpiece (Mark Clarke). Other less common variant is made of metal pipe, PVC pipe, and a wooden flute.Produced in different keys. The most common are the C and D key. Irish songs are mostly in the key of D (but it is not a rule). Incidentally, on www.youtube.com is a lot of instructions how to play the whistle.

Unlike recorders whistle has only 6 holes (flute has many 9). These are called. Simple System. It should be surprised that it does not whistle at the bottom of the hole for the left thumb and is not used or right pinkie. I admit that I revelled that playing on this narrow flute will, therefore, be simpler. Wrong, so it's not that simple. :-) Another difference is that the holes are farther apart than on a recorder (soprano). When you play simple songs on this is not that hard. It's worse when you start playing Irish songs which are mostly very fast and it takes a lot of moving fingers and a lot of training, but it's worth it. :-)



At the end of one of my first attempts publikovatelných - Amazing Grace