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Out of curiosity, not being a wind player myself, how do you "pitch bend" on an Irish whistle? I've always wondered, and find the effect rather delicious to hea
by elblanco 17y ago
Out of curiosity, not being a wind player myself, how do you "pitch bend" on an Irish whistle? I've always wondered, and find the effect rather delicious to hear.
- teilo 17y agoYou partially cover the finger holes on a whistle, sort of rolling your fingers over them, or sliding them on or off the holes. It becomes second nature fairly quickly. On a flute, you can do the same, but you can also bend the pitch a fair degree by changing the angle of the airstream across the aperture.
- elblanco 17y agoI thought it was something like that, but not having the proper instrument may have thwarted my rather amateurish attempts to do the same with other wind instruments.