The Essential Guide to Irish Flute and Tin Whistle   Featured Item!

For the beginner to the highly advanced player of Irish flute, tin whistle, or Boehm-system flute. Features a simple and penetrating new approach to understanding and notating ornamentation that goes beyond any previous method, exploring ornamentation techniques never described in print before. Also includes adaptations for Boehm-system flute players, guidance on breathing and phrasing, 49 ornamentation exercises, history and theory of traditional Irish flute and whistle music, and 27 meticulous transcriptions of recordings by these important Irish flute and tin whistle players: John McKenna ,Tom Morrison, William Cummins, Séamus Ennis, Willie Clancy, Paddy Taylor, Paddy Carty, Grey Larsen, Josie McDermott, Matt Molloy, Cathal McConnell, Mary Bergin, Donncha Ó Briain (Denis O'Brien), Desi Wilkinson, Breda Smyth, Seán Ryan, Conal Ó Gráda, Micho Russel, Joanie Madden, Kevin Crawford, Catherine McEvoy, and Seamus Egan. For those who don't read music, almost all the exercises, examples and tunes appear on the two companion CDs.

"Grey has, through his research, patience, and diligence, completed a work on Irish flute and tin whistle that I feel is essential reading for anybody interested in getting it right." - Matt Molloy, Irish Flute player with the Chieftains.

Price: $39.95

Bodhran Tutor

An easy-to-use basic tutor with a new, simpler approach to playing the bodhrán. Uses a unique system of tablature to demonstrate exercises and techniques. Includes CD.

Price: $13.90

Irish Tinwhistle Pocketbook

This simple booklet offers an introduction to the tinwhistle or pennywhistle in the Irish style. The tunes in the book are arranged in the key of D (for a D whistle), as this is the most common key for traditional Irish music. The book includes instruction on how to play the tinwhistle, a fingering chart, an explanation of musical notation, a section on ornamentation, and 21 fully diagrammed tunes with chord symbols.

Price: $0.95

Soodlum's Irish Tin Whistle Tutor Volume 1

A collection of 28 ballads, slow airs, dance music, and popular tunes, all fully diagrammed to allow the beginner to learn the tinwhistle. Title include: Danny Boy; The Drunken Sailor; and others.

Price: $7.50

Soodlum's Irish Tin Whistle Tutor Volume 2

A selection of 37 fully diagrammed Irish ballads, hornpipes, jigs and reels with further instruction for beginners.

Price: $7.50

The Essential Tin Whistle Toolbox

All the tools the beginner, novice, and intermediate tin whistle player needs in order to progress to a high level of competence in Irish music. Includes an "Orientation to Traditional Irish Music", which puts the music in context, with information on scales and modes, dance tune types, the historical roots of whistle playing, and advice for learning by ear. The book is full of thorough instruction, exercises, and musical examples: from holding, fingering, breathing, and blowing, on up to advanced ornamentation, phrasing, and variations. Features a simple and penetrating new approach to understanding and notating ornamentation that goes beyond any previous method. Also includes history and theory of traditional Irish tin whistle music. For those who don't read music, almost all the exercises and examples appear on the companion CD.

Price: $29.95

Timber, The Flute Tutor

By Fintan Vallely. This tutor is designed for the beginner learning the wooden "simple-system" six-hole flute. Since the fingering on the tinwhistle is identical, this book is particularly suited for those who wish to learn the whistle now with the intention of later taking up the flute.

Price: $13.95

Tinwhistle for Beginners

The ideal tinwhistle instructional text for children. This book presents familiar melodies while progressing slowly and carefully. Works equally well for class or individual instruction.

Price: $4.95