Tin Whistle & Low Whistle Fingering Charts

These fingering charts can be downloaded as a free PDF

** Please note: consider these charts as a guide to get started with, rather than a definitive list of all tone-hole fingering patterns. Others can be found with experimentation.

Basic Tin Whistle Fingering Charts

This chart is a graphical illustration of the basic scale fingerings for a tin whistle in the key of D. Closed holes are shown as filled circles, open holes as empty circles. The first octave covers the notes D, E, F#, G, A, B, Cnat, C# and high D.   

Chameleon Chromatic Whistle Fingering Chart

The mk Chameleon is a chromatic whistle capable of playing in every key. Unlike a standard tin whistle which is stretched to play beyond the diatonic scale, the Chameleon's additional keys give access to all 12 semitones across nearly three complete octaves. These charts show the complete fingering patterns for the full chromatic range - one showing octave 1 and 2, and a separate chart for the 3rd octave  . The Chameleon is made by mk whistles in Glasgow, Scotland.