Welcome to the Celtic Music Archives!

This site is all about penny whistles and whistle music. My name is Greg, and up in that picture I'm playing a Clarke classic pennywhistle off the shore of the Aille river in Doolin, Ireland. That's a Chieftain New Range low D tucked up under my arm. 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 audio samples for 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 to whet your whistle music craving.

About Copyrights

Please note that many of the tunes in this archive have come from my own collection of tune books. To the best of my knowledge these tunes are traditional music, and the music itself is not copyrighted. I have personally engraved this sheet music myself with commercial notation software, so each file is copyrighted by me (Copyright © 1997-2026, Gregory Mahan). In the interest of free music, I license these works under the Creative Commons license. You can use these images however you wish, so long as you do not sell them and proper credit is given to the author and tinwhistler.com.

A few tunes (such as the Willow and Planxty Dale Wisely) are copyrighted by someone other than myself, are clearly noted on the sheet music page, and are not licensed under Creative Commons. Please contact the original artist for permission to use those works.

The whistle reviews on this site are not licensed under Creative Commons. All pictures, text, and sound files in the reviews section are not licensed for distribution, and I assert all rights under Copyright for those works.

If you are the copyright holder to music in this archive or feel that a tune is in violation of copyrights, please let me know.