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Written in Folk Roots issue 34, 1986


BOOK
TOM MAGUIRE
The Tin Whistle Book
Ossian Publications ISBN 0 946005 25 7  (1986)

Subtitled "an easy, straightforward approach to playing the tin whistle. Complete with a selection of easy tunes and traditional song and dance airs from Scotland, Ireland, America, Canada, Australia, Brittany, England and Wales", this book is exactly what it says it is. It's also a fitting preamble to the book by Geraldine Cotter from the same publisher, reviewed in F.R. 28. It would be OK for children with reasonable reading ability, or help, too.
      A small, cheap, effective introduction to a small, cheap, effective instrument; it could even help to save the world from the class-fulls of tootling recorders.

 
© 1985 Andrew Cronshaw
 

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