h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

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This is a complete guide to how to play the tin whistle. Using this, anybody can learn to play what must be one of the least expensive musical instruments in the world. I bought one the other day for only £2.99.

Suberb Entry I really liked it It shouldn't have any problems getting into the Edited Guide Though your pretty red headers will probably be stripped out by the SubEd. The cuts and throws are remarkably similar to some of the grace notes etc. Used in the Great Highland Bagpipe. But as I said excellent Entry Until later....
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This really is a complete guide - very comprehensive! As long as it's all your own work, well done!

Very enjoyable- I have a couple of tin whistles- in D and in C. Worth noting, perhaps, is that generation's tin whistles are I believe colour coded- the D one has a blue mouthpiece. And they are (I believe) marginally more expensive than feadog, although not consequentially - tin whistles are very cheap.
You've made a slight mistake in Happy Birthday- D D E D G F#, D D E D A G, D D D' B G F# E, C C B G A G.
-thats what it should be- I've got a B after the high D where you previously had an A
Other thing of note is that the tin whistle's fingering is a bit closer to the flute's than that of the recorder, which is usually used to introduce people to woodwind instruments. But then again, tin whistle isn't taught in schools as often as recorder is
oh, and I would argue with the description of C natural as a 'semitone' - technically a tone or a semitone is a distance between one note and another

All together a good entry. And I learned the better way of playing C natural.

Thanks for the reccomendation, Gnomon. It's so good, it's been sucked into the editorial process to be included in the Edited Guide. Woo-hoo! Once it's in there, you'll get an eMail to let you know. But please be patient... it might take a while for it to go through all that sub-edding business.

Cheers!

Thanks for spotting the mistake in Happy Birthday. I ran those tunes off so quickly I never noticed that one.

I don't believe Generation tin whistles are colour coded. I used to have a D, an E flat and a G. They were all silver with a blue top.

You're right in saying that technically C natural is not a semitone. But try and think of another way of explaining notes that are outside of the key of D without bringing advanced music theory into it! I could call them "accidentals", but C natural is normally used to play the key of G. In the key of G, it is not an accidental. I could call them "half notes", but that is exactly what semitones means. If you can think of a better way of saying it, let me know, but for the moment I'll leave it as it is.

Put in a footnote that this is not strictly true, and say if people want more information on the subject they should see this entry http://www.h2g2.com/A355989 which admittedly hasn't been edited yet but since I submitted it at the beginning of June, it'll hopefully reach a decision before yours does
Its just I have seen generation whistles with pink and red tops when I was a kid... ...but that was years ago and they may have signified something else.