Practice a song slowly and only play faster when you are strong and confident in your song. It takes time to get used to the gaps between the holes and it takes practice to learn to cover the holes completely while your fingers are moving quickly through your songs. The most difficult part of this is that there isn’t a quick fix for this problem. Cover the Holes CompletelyĪ tiny gap in the fingering holes can destroy your sound! It’s kind of an unfair thing that such a small part of the tin whistle can make such a tremendous difference. You still will have some saliva travelling through the tin whistle (it’s inevitable), but this will decrease the saliva effect tremendously. The air is now travelling in a narrow column and is therefore covering less of your mouth, and is therefore scooping up less moisture. Imagine you are blowing through a straw as you are blowing through the tin whistle.
If your air goes over your entire mouth, then it will pick up more moisture.Ī really easy way to improve this is to use the Super Straw Method. Your mouth has glands that constantly produce saliva, and therefore your mouth is always a moist environment. To minimize saliva going into your tin whistle, you have to shrink the diameter of the column of air. Flick the tin whistle by the bottom of the tin whistle boreĢ.(the more polite way) You can cover the ramp hole (the part of the tin whistle that makes the sound) and blow a quick burst of air to clear the whistle. To clear the windway, you have two options:ġ. Some tin whistles “clog” (another term of describing the effect of saliva blocking the windway) easier than others, but it’s important to try and minimize this problem with any tin whistle you get. This is a problem with every tin whistle on planet earth. Saliva in your tin whistle will dramatically interfere with your tin whistle sound. This larger column of air picks up a lot of saliva on its way out of your mouth and into the windway of the tin whistle. Play It Don’t Spray It (the Super Straw Method)Ī common mistake for beginners is to blow through the tin whistle with a larger column of air. You can try adding epoxy to try and seal up the mouthpiece, but you may be looking at a new whistle if your own gluing doesn’t work. This is a terrible thing, unfortunately, for the tin whistle’s sound. It’s possible that the seal on the whistle is not complete. Very often the mouthpiece on inexpensive whistles is actually glued on to the bore of the whistle.
Use a needle or an electronics screwdriver to clear any obstructions in the fipple and you’ll immediately see a difference in your sound. Since many inexpensive tin whistles are plastic and made by a process called injection molding, it’s common for them to have small pieces of plastic blocking the windway where you don’t want them to. The thin light of light going through the fipple should have no obstructions–it should be a clean rectangle without any obstructions. Look through the bottom of your tin whistle towards a light and pay special attention to the slit of light coming from the mouthpiece (called a fipple on these types of flutes). Inexpensive tin whistles are made in huge batches, and because they are made in mass and sell for less than $20 it’s common for these types of tin whistles to have small defects–some of them (luckily) that are easy to fix. Perhaps one of the easiest ways to improve the sound of your tin whistle is to fix any issues it may have. That’s the reason why I’m writing this post–to pass along all that I’ve learned since then to make your tin whistle playing sound better. I experienced this same thing when I picked up the tin whistle. You’re probably here because you’ve listened to some amazing tin whistle players or maybe you’ve watched some Irish Sessions on YouTube and thought “wow… the tin whistle sounds amazing!” Then, when you excitedly buy your own tin whistle, you instead hear squeaks, squeals, or shrieks and think: ‘”why does my tin whistle sound so bad?” As an Amazon Associate, we earn from qualifying purchases. We earn commissions if you purchase products from retailers after clicking on a link from our site.
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