In 1843. Robert Clarke a poor farm laborer left his employer after having been unjustly accused of dishonesty. He was a talented amateur musician and played a wooden whistle. He developed the idea of copying his whistle but used tinplate to do so. He made the block in the mouthpiece out of wood which he cut into shape using a homemade saw. He decided to mass produce his new style of whistle. He loaded the necessary materials and his simple tools onto a handbarrow and, together with his son, walked all the way from Suffolk to Manchester. On the way he would set up his workshop barrow in market places, showing how the whistles were made and selling them.
Eventually he began manufacturing his whistles in a shop he rented. As the years went on his whistles became world famous under their definitive name - PENNY WHISTLE. Robert Clarke made his fortune selling the Pennywhistles, building houses for himself and his relatives and founding a local church. He even returned to his native village in Suffolk and bought himself a farm.
To create the sampled version we used an original tin penny whistle and multi-sampled it over the entire range of the instrument. This is a beautiful sound that fits well in a lot of different musical contexts. The whistle has a breathy, pure tone that lends itself well to solo pieces. Some have described this whistle as having a 'fairy tale' type sound.
Demo Phrases
Click the links below to hear mp3 demos of these sounds. These demo mp3's were created using only samples from the Tin Whistle "Pennywhistle" sample collection.
In 1843. Robert Clarke a poor farm laborer left his employer after having been unjustly accused of dishonesty. He was a talented amateur musician and played a wooden whistle. He developed the idea of copying his whistle but used tinplate to do so. He made the block in the mouthpiece out of wood which he cut into shape using a homemade saw. He decided to mass produce his new style of whistle. He loaded the necessary materials and his simple tools onto a handbarrow and, together with his son, walked all the way from Suffolk to Manchester. On the way he would set up his workshop barrow in market places, showing how the whistles were made and selling them. 
