How to Play The Glen Cottage on the Tin Whistle

The Glen Cottage is a polka you can learn on the tin whistle, set in e minor (2/4, around 220 beats per minute). It uses 8 distinct notes, ranging from D5 up to E6 — all within the D whistle’s range.

Polka in e minor (214 notes after repeat-expansion).

The interactive sheet music below shows a fingering chart under every note. Press Practice to play along while the app listens to your microphone and tracks your place in the score note by note, or print a clean copy of the score and fingering reference.