2 Tin Whistle in instruments.xml

• Jan 28, 2017 - 21:14
Reported version
2.1
Type
Functional
Severity
S4 - Minor
Status
closed
Project

There are two Tin Whistles in instruments.xml. The second one is labeled as wind.flutes.whistle.tin.d while the first one is wind.flutes.whistle.tin. Any know if there is any reason for that? @ChurchOrganist maybe?


Comments

There are three tin whistles on instruments.xml. Including a Bb Tin Whistle.

The trouble with them all is they use the same settings, which is incorrect.
Most common Tin Whistles are D and C. Bb is used often next to a low D and Low C. And off course their are even more Tin Whistles in different keys,
WIKI QUOTE: "The whistle is tuned diatonically, which allows it to be used to easily play music in two major keys a perfect fourth apart and the natural minor key and Dorian mode a major second above the lowest note. The whistle is identified by its lowest note, which is the tonic of the lower of two major keys whose tonics are a perfect fourth apart that the whistle most easily plays in." END QUOTE

So a High D tin whistle uses D major scale: F and C should be Sharp, which doesn't show it's Clef.
That sets apart the others, one should be called C Tin Whistle as it uses the C Major scale.
And the Bb is missing it's Flats on the Clef, as it play's the Bb major: which uses Bb and Eb.
Standard Bb is lower then a D Tin Whistle.

Off course each instrument has it's own pitchrange, I'm just not that familiar with midi to know what it should be.