Links

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.

KiwiCelt Wooden Flutes An interesting and pretty site, giving information about these Irish flutes crafted from New Zealand wood; flutes made through the teamwork of friends Martin Doyle and Shardul Dillicar. Great Celtic music and general Irish links on links page.

Celtic Nations World is perfect for anyone who wants to find out more about Celtic culture. Did you know that Ireland, Wales, Cornwall, Galicia, Brittany, Scotland, and the Isle of Man are all Celtic nations? There are lots of interesting links about each country. Find information about Celtic culture, music, festivals, and words. Download the wonderful Celtic font. You can use it for documents and webpages.

original image of a Celtic cross copyright Elizabeth Gott

Other Music Links

• The Lydian Mode The Lydian Mode offers custom arrangement, transcription, and notation services. Lydia, a Cambridge graduate in music, has the expertise that comes from an in-depth study of musical theory and practice, as well as years of experience as a musician, vocalist, and ensemble director. She can craft a custom arrangment of any musical piece, designed for whatever set of instruments and vocal parts you wish. If you would like custom sheet music for an audio file, just send Lydia the audio file and she can transcribe it for you, creating a wonderful score with professional notation. Lydia's custom music notation is special because of her knowledge of the music typesetting language Musixtex, and her experience with engraving tools like Lilypond. With a background that includes early music notation and ethnomusicology, Lydia is an expert at crafting Plainsong and Gregorian Chant notation, Non-Western notation, and also Schenkerian graphs. The Lydian Mode is the perfect solution for all your arrangement, transcription, and notation needs!