A very nice book. My POTS connection is so slow that navigating to look at on the web was pretty painful, so I did the "save copy" thing so I could open it direct on my machine. The whole thing is about 4MB - just time to get a fresh cup of copy and walk out for my morning newsrag.

My local session book notes the key as D-minor, and I suspect that our couple of local whistlers probably use the D whistle and "half-hole" down to make the minor. Generation does make an "F" whistle, but the only ones I've seen are a high F that would sound like a picolo in this piece - usually played in lower registers.

The Eskin book gives the alternate title Hand Me Down the Tackle. Our locals more often call this one The Howling Wind, and play it in a sinestro mode.

John