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  • The second method we tried was a DVD by one of Ireland's best-known tin-whistle players, Vinnie Kilduff.

    Music Lessons: Hannah Kate Kinnersley 2008

  • It has several great features: Each of the 10 lesson screens has tabs that you can click on to see the fingering and notes for a song, hear the song played on the tin whistle, or play the song with a piano and tin-whistle soundtrack.

    Music Lessons: Hannah Kate Kinnersley 2008

  • The band was called Sin-Aid and they sang classic American rock all night, adding a tin-whistle part to every song.

    Gerry Canavan 2007

  • But I am, as always, earthshakingly proud of her new skill, even though, like crawling, walking, running, climbing, and playing the tin-whistle, it makes my job more difficult tin-whistle is a particularly dangerous skill in the hands of an energetic toddler without respiratory issues.

    The Holiday: Centreparcs Longleat ailbhe 2007

  • The band was called Sin-Aid and they sang classic American rock all night, adding a tin-whistle part to every song.

    Gerry Canavan 2007

  • That voyage comes therefore like a tin-whistle solo by way of overture, to the complex orchestration of human motive in the great struggle for human unity that lay ahead.

    The Shape of Things to Come Herbert George 2006

  • He looked in the bloom of health, and he had his pipes and played his mystic airs; then he brought out the tin-whistle of Ireland, and blew such rollicking melodies as capering fairies invented a long time ago.

    Mark Twain: A Biography 2003

  • Drew was just as sincere in writing his verses, and I put all the feeling I could into my tin-whistle interpretation of "The Minstrel Boy."

    High Adventure A Narrative of Air Fighting in France James Norman Hall 1919

  • I know now the symphonies of the exalted nerves; I can judge; and I say better lie and hear them to the end than come back again to my old life, to my little tin-whistle solo, my -- effort!

    The Research Magnificent 1906

  • He looked in the bloom of health, and he had his pipes and played his mystic airs; then he brought out the tin-whistle of Ireland, and blew such rollicking melodies as capering fairies invented a long time ago.

    Mark Twain, a Biography. Complete Albert Bigelow Paine 1899

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