This site is all about penny whistles and whistle music. I'm the Wandering
Whistler, shown here at the
Texas Renaissance
Festival playing a Chieftain Low D. I've been playing the penny whistle
(also known as the tin whistle, tin flute, fipple flute, among other assorted
names) since 1995, and am very much in love with it.
On this site, you'll find sheet music and midi to many irish and scottish folk
tunes, as well as tunes that just sound good on the whistle. You'll find
children's songs, Christmas carols, Irish Airs, reels, jigs, or pretty much
anything (hopefully) to whet your whistle music craving.
Please note that many of the songs in this archive have come from my own
collection of songbooks. To the best of my knowlege these songs are TRADITIONAL
music, and the music itself is not copyrighted. If you look on the copyright
page in many songbooks dealing with folk songs or traditional music (which are
too old for copyrights, or which have been placed into the public domain),
publishers usually can only copyright the layout work. I have personally layed
out each song in this archive with commercial notation software, so each .gif
file of sheet music is copyrighted by me (Copyright (C) 1997-2006, Gregory
Mahan). However, in the interest of free music, I hereby license these works to
the public under the Creative
Commons license. In a nutshell, you can use these images in whatever
manner you wish, so long as you do not attempt to sell or otherwise make
monetary profit from them, and proper credit is given to the author (me) and my
site (www.tinwhistler.com). All recordings
of music on the tinwhistle are performed by me, and likewise copyrighted as
well (Copyright (C) 1997-2006, Gregory Mahan), and carry the same license and
restriction. You do not have to contact me first, though it would certainly be
the polite thing to do, and would make notifying you about site changes easier.
A few tunes on the site (such as the Willow and Planxty Dale Wisely) are
copyrighted works by someone other than myself, are clearly noted on the sheet
music page for the work in question, and are not licensed under the Creative
Commons license. If you wish to use these works, do the same thing I did, and
please contact the original artist/composer to get permission to do anything
with them!
The reviews of whistles on my site are not
licensed under the Creative Commons license. I can't really think of a reason why
anyone would need to copy and distribute these on their websites. Therefore,
all pictures, text, and sound files in the reviews section are not licensed
for distribution, and I assert all rights granted to me under Copyright for
those works.
Note: If you are the copyright holder to music in this archive or feel that a
song is in violation of copyrights, please let me know. It is not my intention
to infringe on anyone's rights with my archive.