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NG's Music School
Improvers Whistle
Location Online
Day/Time Thur 10-11
Latest update 18 Feb 5pm

In this online class you will continue to learn to play the penny whistle in a friendly, fun group. You should have a penny whistle in the key of D, available from any music shop.

Use the schedule below to find out what we're doing each week, and download music if required. Any questions, just ask (email me).

    The fee for the ten-week term is £60.00, or £90.00 for the Improvers class and the Intermediate class). Details of how to pay can be found on the Whistle Classes Payment Page.


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Meeting ID   850 6565 9973
Password   whistle
Class Schedule
     Term B (Jan - Mar 2026)
15/1 B1 Soldier's Joy:
[standard notation] [whistle tab]
old time
22/1 B2 Whistle O'er the Lave O't
Green Grow the Rashes O
march/song air
29/1 B3 The John Maclean March Irish polka
5/2 B4 Mary Thorburn Cunningham slow air
12/2 B5 Braigh Loch Iall jig
19/2 -- Holiday
26/2 B6 John McAlpine strathspey
5/3 B7 Humours of Tulla Irish reel
12/3 B8 Denis Murphy's Polka Irish polka
19/3 B9 The Lammas Tide
The Black Douglas
song airs
26/3 B10 The Lonesome Boatman Irish slow air
     Term A (Sep - Dec 2025)
11/9 A1 Will Ye No' Come Back Again song air
18/9 A2 Kishmul's Galley
Hard Times Come Again No More
slow air
old time
25/9 A3 The Auld Hoose
Caller Herrin'
song airs
2/10 A4 Strathearn (3) song air
9/10 A5 The Land o' the Leal song air
16/10 -- Holiday
23/10 A6 Midnight On the Water old time waltz
30/10 A7 The Steamboat jig
6/11 A8 This Gloom On My Soul slow air
13/11 A9 The Eternal Surge of the Sea
I Am Here Alone
Gaelic waltz
Gaelic waltz
20/11 A10 Barwick Green English
27/11 A11 Dumbarton's Drums
Whistle O'er the Lave O't
song air
Burns
4/12 A12 John Grumlie jig
5/12 -- Holiday


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