I wanted to create this tutorial because I have received several questions by email and in the forum about the various keys of whistles and how they relate to the tunes themselves. Hopefully this lesson will help clear things up. I play a tune, "The Walls of Liscarroll" on a D whistle in the tune's natural key, D minor. Then, by switching whistles to a C whistle and playing the tune with the exact same fingering, you can hear the tune but now in C minor. In final part of the tutorial, you can hear the tune played on the C whistle but with a different fingering which gets the tune back to the key of D minor.
I did this as an example -- this is not commonly done in sessions, but I wanted to demonstrate the different tone and embellishment options that you can get by fingering the tune differently on a non-standard whistle key, while still playing the tune in the same key as it is normally played.
