This notation is pretty simple; dark circles mean covered holes; empty circles mean uncovered holes; a '+' below means to blow harder to get the upper octave; a '#' below means this note is too low for the whistle chosen and you'll have to fake it :) The author of this program always plays accidentals by closing holes, so you'll never see half-covered holes.
When I was starting, I found notation like this to be very helpful, and I know plenty of people who have trouble reading music who find this notation easier. Good luck!
![[GIF Score]](/wscores/FINNWATR-D.gif)
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(Choose a whistle key:
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B
C
D
E
F
G
Ab
Bb
Cb
Db
Eb
Fb
Gb
A#
B#
C#
D#
E#
F#
G#)
Dulcimer tab
for this song is also available
Finn Waterside As I roved out one evening, being in the summertime I heard a voice made me rejoice, to wait I did incline I overheard my own true love, so sweet as he did sing "Come down along Finn waterside," he made the woods to ring My parents thought all in my prime to banish me away To dwell among the Indians and leave sweet Inver Bay But I'll let them know, before I go, whatever may betide That I have a true love of my own, dwells nigh Finn waterside There is many a clever tall young man lives nigh Finn waterside But above them all, both great and small, I would rather be his bride I would rather hear my own true love sing in the month of May Than all the herring fish or ling that swim round Inver Bay Farewell unto Finn waterside, where oftime I have been Likewise unto sweet Inver Bay, adieu you woods so green You lofty mountains I must cross, they do call Barnesmore Down by the rocks and yon rural well and along by the salt sea shore printed in Sam Henry's Songs of the People, p 192 collected from Alex Thompson in County Derry in 1928 SOF
Thanks to Mudcat for the Digital Tradition!
