Demonstration of how to play Clarke whistles
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- čas přidán 13. 04. 2021
- Yes, Clarkes take a little more air, but if you shorten your phrase length a bit, they are lovely to play, very even across the octaves. To prove this can be done on a note-dense reel, I selected Martin Mulhaire's composition The Golden Keyboard.
My first whistle was a Clarke tin whistle with the wooden block. A dangerous machine! Great playing Frank!
Hey, I'm a bit late but. I am a new whistle player and I've only used a Clarke original in D. It's very hard for me to hit the higher notes. Do you have any tip and tricks? And is it much harder to hit the higher notes on a Clarke D whistle than it would be on for example the sweetone?
@@BilboBaggins236the Clark original is the MOST air demanding whistle you can get. Training or learning on a Clark original is like being Goku in the hyperbaric chamber. When you get on the whistle that requires drastically last air, you will be able to extend your phrasing do to the lung power you will have built up. They are tough to work and sound airy. That said I only mess with the wood block whistle it’s the ORIGINAL after all
You proved it all right
great！
Aren't these whistle heads prone to corrosion due to humidity, as their mouthpiece is made of wood? How do you clean such a whistle? I guess you should avoid water. But is blowing the mouthpiece while covering all holes with your fingers enough in such case? This issue concerns me quite a lot, because I recently saw that Tony Dixon launched a new model of high D whistles, called Mui Cosht. They're made of aluminum but the underside of the mouthpiece is made from box wood. Maybe you can check them out too and give us your opinion.
I have a Mui Cosht, no blockage problems with the wood block, which Dixon did as a nod to whistle history (it is a lovely instrument). I have many Clarkes: all of them have generous windways and I have never had one block off because of wood swelling (some of the really old ones have the opposite problem with wood shrinkage.)
I love my Clarke O! It SOUNDS right. The Sweetone is easy to play but sounds like a toy compared to the original Clarke. My Waltons, Generation, Feadog and Oak tend to squeak and squeal. I have two of the Dixon DX00- series and while they play easily, they sound plastic--because they are. Feadog Pro not too bad.
Check out Dixon's Mui Cosht whistle -- it is aluminum with a wooden fipple block, has what I would call a very traditional sound, great bargain right now. They are on the Dixon website for now. I don't know how many he intends to make.
@@frankclaudy1031 Thank you for the suggestion--I've been looking for the next step up from my Clarke original and DX004. I've not spent that much on a whistle before, lol, but I see they let you divide into three payments so maybe after Christmas I can swing it!