Scarborough fair Clarke D Tin whistle

Started trying to play Scarborough fair lastnight..... so an hour or so of watching other people play it this is what I have.

The song tells the tale of a young man, who tells the listener to ask his former lover to perform for him a series of impossible tasks, such as making him a shirt without a seam and then washing it in a dry well, adding that if she completes these tasks he will take her back. Often the song is sung as a duet, with the woman then giving her lover a series of equally impossible tasks, promising to give him his seamless shirt once he has finished.
Lyrics:
Are you goin' to Scarborough Fair? Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme.
Remember me to one who lives there, she once was a true love of mine.

Tell her to make me a cambric shirt (On the side of a hill in the deep forest green).
Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme (Tracing a sparrow on snow-crested ground).
Without no seams nor needlework (Blankets and bedclothes the child of the mountain).
Then she'll be a true love of mine (Sleeps unaware of the clarion call).

Tell her to find me an acre of land (On the side of a hill, a sprinkling of leaves).
Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme (Washes the grave with silvery tears).
Between salt water and the sea strands (A soldier cleans and polishes a gun).
Then she'll be a true love of mine.

Tell her to reap it in a sickle of leather (War bellows, blazing in scarlet battalions).
Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme (Generals order their soldiers to kill).
And gather it all in a bunch of heather (And to fight for a cause they've long ago forgotten).
Then she'll be a true love of mine.

Are you going to Scarborough Fair? Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme.
Remember me to one who lives there, she once was a true love of mine.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• scarborough
• fair
• tin
• whistle
• flute
• irish
• clarke
• penny
• english

[CryingFlute]

My Clarke is dinted now and gold work has faded... I like the wood fipple.. even the smell of it really. I havent tried Oak or Burke but will have to have a look and play of some others, Im currently playing Dirty Old Town... ish and Id like to learn King of the Fairies, I need to do some updates to the Penny whistle videos as only put some up when I was first learning to play... im a little better now.. slightly.

[splortz]

I have a clarke, a generation and an Oak whistle. The Clark seems to take the most wind and has a "breathy" sound. The Oak takes the least wind and the Generation is a close second. For tone, I like the Oak and Generation whistles. The Clarke is very classy looking, but you know what they say about beauty... I also have a Burke D with the C nat thumbhole. VERY stable, very dependable (the notes are always clear, always available). A masterpiece of engineering. :-)

[Dakoo89]

@sariyaa1 the key that you can play in. The major (diatonic) scale is Tone Tone Semitone Tone Tone Tone Semitone so while in C major you have C D E F G A B C in D major you'd have D E F# G A B C# D to keep the same interval (of 2 halfnotes for a tone and 1 halfnote for a semitone). Basically that means you'll be playing most song with a 1 tone higher than on a C. So it really only depends on the sound you like better (IMO) I definetly prefer D whistles' sound.

[RedWinzer]

Can you put the notes up lease? or email me the music sheet you use or the site you got it from? (j.b.baker@hotmail.co.uk

[Darth95Arcaad]

@sariyaa1 A tinwhistle in the key of D plays all notes naturally apart from C & F, which are sharp (#) [sharp means 1/2 note higher, i.e. the black note to the right of a key on piano]. A C tinwhistle plays all notes natural (no sharps). However, with certain fingering you can play in other keys using a whistle tuned to a particular key. (For example a "D" whistle can be played in the key of "G").

[sariyaa1]

What difference is between clarke c and d?

[realjuvelive]

Can we play chords for penny whistle ?

[realjuvelive]

What about this little thing ? clarke tin whistle is it easy to play ?

[ralphslik]

very good... like it