Then you get techniques like double or triple tonguing that can give a staccato effect. Ultimately it is another technique that can be employed so why rule it out of the repertoire? It can be a great way of providing emphasis or articulation in a tune. Micho played a very laid back style that was not very heavily ornamented and without tonguing, Sean Ryan tongues an awful lot and Mary Bergin is somewhere in the middle - and they all sound fantastic. In Milltown this summer in the whistle class I was in there were identified 3 main proponents of the whistle in Ireland, Micho Russell, Mary Bergin and Sean Ryan. There is certainly a school of thought within Irish music too that would suggest you shouldn’t tongue. You tend to find (*sweeping generalisations coming up*) that a lot of pipers do not tongue when playing the whistle or use it very minimally because they are not used to doing it.
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