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Whistles go all around the world! Every country on the planet has come kind of whistle or flute in its traditional music legacy. This unique book gathers together 50 whistle melodies and explores a rich variety of international playing styles and techniques. From Bosnia to Brittany and from Turkey to Thailand, here are some of the world's greatest tunes for whistles, flutes and pipes. All tunes are arranged for pennywhistle in D and are playable on any other similar whistle or concert flute. Also included are chord symbols for piano or guitar and informative notes about the music and local genres.

About the Author

L.E. McCullough, Ph.D. has been performing and teaching traditional Irish music on tinwhistle and flute since 1972.  Since then, he has recorded and toured with a variety of groups including Trim the Velvet, Devilish Merry, Bourrée Texane, Money in Both Pockets and the Irish Airs and has appeared on thirty-four recordings with Irish, French, Cajun, Latin, blues, jazz, country, bluegrass and rock ensembles for Angel/EMI, Sony Classical, RCA, Warner Brothers, Log Cabin, Kicking Mule, Rounder, Bluezette and other labels.  His playing was featured in the soundtracks of the Ken Burns PBS television series The West, Lewis and Clark, and Not for Ourselves Alone and the Neil Jordan film Michael Collins.  Dr. McCullough is also an inspired composer-arranger with a rare talent for shaping brand new genres based on traditional musical structures.  His three solo albums, His Own Kind, Late Bloomer and Feadanísta, have spotlighted dozens of his own compositions while stretching accepted stylistic boundaries to create the fresh new musical hybrid of Celtic World Beat, an idiom critics have dubbed “the ultimate folk-fusion…multifaceted, innovative, unorthodox and slightly nefarious.”  Through his classic instruction book, The Complete Irish Tinwhistle Tutor (Oak Publications), L.E. McCullough has taught the joys of tinwhistling to more than one million people worldwide.

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