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Tin Whistle Links

• The Clarke Tin Whistle Company has been making whistles since 1843, and is the most distinguished manufacturer of tin whistles today. Find information on the history of this popular Irish instrument and learn about the Clarke products, such as whistles and tutorial cassettes. My favorite tin whistle is my Clarke green Celtic pennywhistle. It is beautiful, and has a wonderful bird-like sound--I love it!

• The Whistle Shop--here you can buy tin whistles and books online! It's great! You sit at home, order, and wonderful musical instruments appear at your door shortly after. I get most of my whistles from here.

• The Whistle Workshop offers MP3s and sheet music of many tunes. Often you can download a couple MP3 versions of the song, to see how the sheet music you see in front of you can be played in numerous different ways. Also has lots of tips about how to play better. An extensive number of good links too. Great site for the beginning whistler to help get them motivated to play more, or for the advanced whistler who wants to learn more tunes and tips.

• Feadóg Redux This is a wonderful website full of resources for anyone interested in the tin whistle. It includes detailed advice on the following topics: 'Choosing a Whistle,' 'Whistle Makers,' 'Care & Maintenance,' 'Learning to Play,' 'Finding Fellow Whistlers,' and 'Recordings.' Invaluable information, and a great layout too.

• Wandering Whistler offers sheet music you can print out and sound clips for many wonderful traditional tin whistle songs. A great selection of music for the tin whistle for players at any level. You can also order tin whistle books and Celtic music CDs from this site through Amazon.com.

• Ain't Whistlin' Dixie A cheerful site, with lots of traditional songs that you can download and listen to, played on the tin whistle and ocarina by David Walker. Also has helpful descriptions of the songs.

Other Celtic Links

Gaelic Storm The official site of my favorite Irish band. I saw them perform live and they were amazing! Their albums Gaelic Storm, Herding Cats, and Tree are my music of choice for many an occasion! The site includes future tour dates and locations.

Ceolas Celtic Music Archive information on Celtic music, artists, tours, albums, reviews, books and magazines. Also AU sound samples--Swans of Coolie and Cowboy Jig are especially good.

Celtic Guitar Page here you can order Glenn Weiser's books on his arrangements for Celtic fingerstyle guitar music. A great feature is that it lists the tunes in each book, so you can find your favorite songs.

Martin Doyle Flutes A great site for the flute enthusiast, giving information about the wooden flutes crafted by Martin Doyle. Doyle makes both Celtic style flutes and traditional style flutes. Beautiful background music of Shardul Dillicar playing a flute made by Martin Doyle.

original image of a Celtic cross copyright Elizabeth Gott

Other Links

• Sacred Solos Operatic soprano Julia Schechtman Pabst sings Biblical and other religious songs. She is accompanied on the piano by conductor Saul Schechtman, who also composed some of the songs on her CD's.

• The Fictional 100 Dr. Lucy Pollard-Gott ranks the 100 most influential fictional characters. Her list spans cultures, continents, and centuries. Useful and enjoyable for students and literati alike.

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