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As
of October 2005, this site has been fully revisited, re-envisioned,
redesigned, rethought, retread and regurgitated. The good news is that
the transmission works now. The bad news is that all of the links might
not. Oh -- and also, there's a lot more stuff now. That's good news.
Mostly, I guess.
Some of the other stuff is still here.
Horace Black's Game Page is still on this site, as is the Kansas City
Native American Flute Circle. The Our Lady of Lourdes, Raytown, Rite
of Christian Initiation for Adults is on the new OLL Raytown
parish website! You can find that site at
www.ollraytown.com. A lot of the other
stuff has been cut, chopped, diced, rolled in flour, overcooked and
thrown out because it was so burned even the dog wouldn't eat it.
These pages are maintained by
Richard
Gross, who would like to welcome you to the site and remind you that the views
and opinions expressed on this page are mine and mine alone, though I am
willing to share them with you if you like them. This
web page contains musically-oriented material intended for responsible
persons only. If you are not yet a responsible person, if music offends you,
or if you are accessing this site from any country or locale where musical
material is specifically prohibited by law, please leave now. If you
understand and accept these terms, then enjoy the "Fingerings for
Tinwhistle" pages.
This site exists so that I can distribute my Tinwhistle Fingering
Chart to anyone who might be interested in having a copy of it and so
that I have my own private little forum for pontificating about the
tinwhistle.
 The Chart consists of the various fingerings I've picked up
along the way. Some of them work well on a particular whistle, but not
so well on other whistles. Some of them work just fine on any whistle
(that I've ever played, anyway). The current version of the Chart is
Fingering Chart XP; this is more updated than the previous version
posted on this site (Version 7.2) and even more updated that the
incredibly overpriced version for sale at Cafe Press. (Really, my markup
is not all that much. Cafe Press charges a lot for the posters!)
NEW!!!
I've added a site updates e-mail list.
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Tinwhistle Musings
- The D Chart:
What you need to know to finger your whistle like it
ought to be fingered. Like it wants to be fingered. If
you are a new whistler, I strongly recommend
that you learn the fingerings as given in the D chart.
This is the standard chart for most music that is
played on the tinwhistle. The "D" fingerings will let
you play music in D-major, G-major, B-minor, E-minor,
A-major and F#-minor and their modes with ease. Music in
other keys can be easily transposed to one of these
keys. All music on this site is arranged for "D"
fingerings. Most music for tinwhistle you will find
elsewhere is arranged for "D" fingerings. Most
traditional music of Ireland, Scotland, and England is
in one of these keys or their modes. A large amount of
American folk music is in one of these keys.
Below are links to charts arranged for all keys. These
are given for the more advanced whistler who is already
comfortable with the idea of playing D fingerings and
transposing other keys into D. If you learn the D
fingerings first and become comfortable with the notion
of transposing other keys in D, you will save yourself a
mountain of work later. I promise.
- The Chart in D
- The Chart in
D-Sharp
- The Chart in
E-flat
- The Chart in F
- The Chart in
F-Sharp
- The Chart in
G-Flat
- The Chart in G
- The Chart in
G-Sharp
- The Chart in
A-Flat
- The Chart in A
- The Chart in
A-Sharp
- The Chart in
B-Flat
- The Chart in B
- The Chart in C
- The Chart in
C-Sharp
- The Chart in
D-Flat
- Fingering Additions:
More fingerings from the field research of the dedicated
folks at the Tinwhistle Fingering Research Center.
- The "Half Octave":
Who'd 've thunk it possible?
-
Basic Rolls and Crans: Here are a few simple rolls
and a couple of crans done in Whistle Tab.
- Whistle Tab:
A standard format for writing Whistle Tab that does not
rely on a special font.
- Capo Chart:
Dating a guitar player? This might be just the thing to
save your relationship.
- Circle -o- Fifths:
Because everyone loves a fifth. (And Beethoven died of
liver disease. True story.)
- The
Chromatic Scale. Much like a chromatic dragon, this
is a thing of myth. Yet -- just like a dragon -- you
should recognize it just in case you ever run into it.
"So, they rode off, the knight and the squire, to
find the sword that belonged in the choir..." (From
the Legend of the Singing Sword.)
- A D-Scale:
It's at the heart of Irish music and the tinwhistle.
Shouldn't it be close to your heart, also? Get this
graphic tattooed on your chest today.
- Ornamentation:
It's bling for music, but cheaper and it won't turn your
neck green.
- Step Definitions:
The whole step, the half step, the two-step and a
ten-step program.
- Transposing:
What goes up, must come down.
- Note Tones &
Numbers: It's math for people who are bad at music.
Or, is that music for people who are bad at math?
- The Staff and You:
What you need to know to make music work for you.
- Arpeggios: If
you always thought the Arpeggios were either those
whacky neighbors from a long-forgotten '70s sitcom or
else a rare tropical fish, then this page is for you.
- Random Notes
& Musings: Stuff that didn't fit anywhere else.
- School
of the Americas Watch. A combat training facility
for Latin American security personnel, the facility made
headlines in 1996 when the Pentagon released training
manuals used at the school that advocated torture and
extortion. Despite this shocking admission and hundreds
of documented human rights abuses connected to soldiers
trained at the school, no independent investigation into
the training facility has ever taken place.
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Requesting Music. Got a request to make? Here's a
little rant about what happened to the last guy who
wandered in here to request music.
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Fan Letters and Death Threats. Got something to say?
Have a question? A gripe? Need help quitting smoking?
Here's what some of the other folks who have wandered
through here on their way to tinwhistle enlightenment
have had to say. Ed Gruberman? You wish to speak?
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Being Hot. There just wasn't anyplace else for
it.... so here it is.
"Woe to those who
enact unjust statutes and who write oppressive
decrees, Depriving the needy of judgment and robbing
my people's poor of their rights, making widows
their plunder and orphans their prey!" – Isaiah
10:1-2
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New Tinwhistle Music
The list of tinwhistle sheet music was
getting awfully long to all be on the first page, so now
there's a separate page for tinwhistle sheet music. The
newest songs posted will be here on the front page; all the
songs can be found on the
Tinwhistle Music
page.
Christmas 2006 Update
Away in a Manger (2006) to be played on Bb whistle
for key of F.
Joy to the World (2006) arranged for a D whistle.
O Come
All Ye Faithful (2006) in the key of G, arranged for
a D whistle.
Ring
Christmas Bells (2006) in D, to be played on an A
whistle.
Silent Night
(2006) in D, to be played on a Bb whistle.
Wake From Your Sleep (2006) in D.
Sesame Street
in D, simplified tune. Can you tell me how to get how to
get to Sesame Street
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