This book is designed for beginners. If you already play, you may still find the introductory parts useful. Hopefully, the sections explaining how to decorate traditional music tunes will inspire you. All the in this tutor book is written for the low D whistle. Whistles in other keys will be “transposing” instruments, thus, the 6-finger bottom/key note on a D whistle sounds D, but on a C whistle sounds C and so on. The 3-finger note of the D whistle sounds G and on an F whistle sound B flat and so on. As 3-finger and 6-finger notes will be used to describe tunes and techniques, a table at the back of the book to enable the whistle player to transpose tunes to the required keys by changing whistles rather than fingering.
 
Tunes
 
Amazing Grace
Skye Boat Song
Drops of Brandy
The Winter Gallop
The Green Gates
Melancholy Martin
South Wind
Down by the Sally Garden
Si Beau Si Mór
Roddy McCorley
Primrose Lass
Green Grow the Rushes O
Ship in Full SailThe Butterfly
The Mountain Road
The Ships Are Sailing
The Star of Munster
The Gold Ring
Moll Roe
Castlebar Races
The Peacock Follow the Hen
The Plains of Boyle
Egan’s Hornpipe
The Wounded Hussar
Rights of Man
Northumberland Farewell
Cape Clear
Man of Aran
The Merry Thatcher
Kilty Town
Farewell To Erin
Dusty Windowsills
The Blue Remembered Hills
The Drunken Gauger
Foxhunter’s Jig
The Tailor’s Twist
The Liverpool Hornpipe
Spike’s Lane
The Lonesome Boatman