At the Potomac piper's gathering a few weeks back, I noticed that few folks had instrument set up to jam with the NSP players in their F+ sets, except for one pennywhistle player. Is there any standard way to play in F+ on a tinwhistle? Is it best to get an F whistle (low or high), take off the head, trim a bit of the top of the body so you can slide the head tighter? Or do the same on a C whistle to sharpen your F scale (the "three fingers down" pitch)? Or do folks do the opposite and get a 'whistle that can play a G scale and pull the head out to bring the G down to F+?
Any advice on how to go about this, and which marques of 'whistle are easiest to modify? Strings instruments are easy to play in F+ with, clearly, though for my concertina it'd take a pretty specific re-tune to play F+! -Matthew -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
