The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #71758   Message #1354965
Posted By: alison
12-Dec-04 - 05:17 PM
Thread Name: penny whistle fingering
Subject: RE: penny whistle fingering
Its not quite the same in the top octave, some whistles are more temperamental than others

on a D whistle

top C# (ie no fingers on in the lower octave) should work when overblown (ie blow harder)

top D (which at the lowest note is all fingers on)
D usually works in the middle octave with all fingers on - although some charts show lifting the top (finger closest to your mouth)finger off
but the very top D quite often won't play unless you take the top finger off and leave the other 5 on.

you can get a few more notes beyond that but the fingering goes a bit weird....

slainte

alison