Roger, thanks for the reminder about Clips and Snips. When I followed the link, I discovered I must have been there before, because I'm already cookied. It must have been months ago, because I'd completely forgotten. I'd obviously omitted to bookmark it, so without your reference, I might never have found my way back.

Any reason why you didn't include a link to Dave Auty's Whistle Workshop", which is also reachable via that first link you gave? Another site well worth bookmarking.

Here's yet another great whistle site, and one I haven't seen mentioned much: The Sessioneer. (On arrival, click on "Tin Whistle guide" in the left-hand frame, and it offers a menu of some 30 pages, including several which make up a well-structured tutorial. Another terrific resource. Why is the whistle so specially favoured out there in Cyberspace?