Mizzy McCaskill Dona Gillam: Complete Irish Tin Whistle Book: Pennywhistle:

An extremely well-written thorough study into contemporary and traditional tinwhistle music and performance. Included are chapters on fundamentals ornamentation and more. Includes access to online audio.

While the wooden simple-system flute is traditionally used in playing Irish music a growing number of folk players have adopted the silver flute as a viable alternative. Here for the first time The Complete Irish Flute Bookpresents the silver or Boehm flutist with a method for learning authentic Irish ornamentation! This thorough guide provides detailed fingering charts exercises and technical essays for learning to execute ornaments in the in theIrish style. Through a wealth of hornpipes reels jigs set dances and slow airs and songs. This book focuses not only on musical accuracy but stylistic authenticity as well. The companion audio download available onlinecontains 26 of the 101 tunes from the book.