The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #17328   Message #2529797
Posted By: Stringsinger
02-Jan-09 - 01:58 PM
Thread Name: Anyone Remember The Melody Flute?
Subject: RE: Anyone Remember The Melody Flute?
Aine,

I find the tin whistle in D used by Irish players to be too shrill for my taste. I'd like to
have a whistle that is a little mellower and less shrill on the overblown octave. Do they exist? If there was a whistle in G it would allow you to play in D or a whistle in A which would allow E. I like the sound of the whistle and see it as graduating to a legit flute wooden or otherwise.

Oddly, I like playing them in the bathtub. (How weird is that?)

Frank Hamilton