I find it nice to know some tunes that dwell within one octave. 

One reason is that for the majority of my tune writing and playing, I lived with a cat. His ears didn't seem to appreciate any tin whistle notes above the first octave. So out of consideration to his ears, a large amount of the tunes I wrote stayed in the first octave.

I also play musical instruments for people with developmental disabilities. If the mood is calm & quiet, and I'm maybe trying to help them relax or sleep, a tune that goes into the 2nd octave on a tin whistle or flute may be a bit too loud. So one octave tunes are nice for this as well.

One octave tunes also give me an option of what key to play the tune in to best suit a moment. For example, on a D whistle I could play it in the first octave (D) or the second octave (G). If I'm outside and it's windy, I may choose to play in G, since the second octave is a bit more wind resistant (it's tough to play whistles in windy weather). And I could choose D or G depending on the volume of the place I'm playing. It's also nice to have options of different keys to play in so you have more of a chance of playing along with other instuments.

It might also be nice to know some one octave tunes for anyone who plays an instrument that can only play 8 notes or so. For me, this would be my pendant ocarina, which I often bring along to play while out in a forest.

And lastly, I also just find that I enjoy simplistic tunes.

So here are some one octave tunes I've recorded. Most of these are original compositions, with a few traditional tunes here & there.

One Octave Tunes

A tune titled in appreciation of a very neat looking and very neat sounding bird.

Instruments:
Gold Tone tenor guitar, Burke tin whistle, Mk Pro low whistle

Starlings In The Oak Tree

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Cthulhu Begins (disquiet0545)

This tune was written during the Guru Poornima full moon of July.

Instruments:
Carbony "leading tone" whistle

Guru Poornima Moon

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Instruments:
Hora octave mandolin, Burke D & low G whistles

Two Raccoons In A Blueberry Bush

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Afterimage of the darkness

Composed and produced by Francesco Vitti
Registered in the studios of EKOS records (Italy)

TuBe

TuBe (radio edit)

Exploring double feedback among Makenoise Mimeophone and Erbeverb.

Feedback 1

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“Most people will tell you growing up means you stop believing in Halloween things - I’m telling you the reverse. You start to grow up when you understand that the stuff that scares you is part of the air you breathe.” ― Peter Straub RIP

Track list:
Dee Barton – Opening Theme (“High Plains Drifter”)
Howard Shore – Gun In Gut (“Videodrome”)
Christopher Young – The Cenobites (“Hellraiser”)
Harry Bromley Davenport – Main Title / Brainstorm (“Xtro”)
Howlround – Moat
Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe – Row Houses (“Candyman”)
Colin Towns – Theme from “Full Circle” (Opening)
Liz Helman – The Yearning
Andrew Kötting & Oliver Cherer – Soundings (“The Whalebone Box”)
Michael Andrews – Time Travel (“Donnie Darko”)
Kreng – Opening Titles (“Cooties”)
Tangerine Dream – Pick Up At High Noon (“Near Dark”)
Tom Holkenborg – Skin People / We Don't Have Chicken (“Dark Tower”)
Colin Stetson & Sarah Neufeld – Never Were the Way She Was
Jeff Herriott – Den of Boar Tusks (“Bone Tomahawk”)
Cthonicist – Datura
Leda Maar – Stairway 13, Pt. 3
Morton Subotnick – Return - A Triumph Of Reason I (excerpts)
Neotropic – Beautiful Pool
Wayne Bell & Tobe Hooper – Opening Titles (“Texas Chain Saw Massacre”)
Tim Hecker – A sodium codec haze
Tuonela – There’s a Mister Lovecraft at the door…
Wayne Bell & Tobe Hooper – Feathers & Bone (“Texas Chain Saw Massacre”)
Model For Assembl – Blood Transfusion (excerpt)
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Eclectic current – Tales of Madness

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THUSNELDA

One of my first original piano compositions I composed in 2013!

"The sad Perception of the Dreamers" (Demo Version)
composed by (c) Natalie Klisch, 2013

The Sad Perception Of The Dreamers (Demo Version)

Instruments:
Burke low G whistle, tenor guitar, organ

White Goat

An original whistle waltz, written on a day that I saw a lot of Eastern Pheobes.

Instruments:
Burke tin whistle, Gold Tone tenor guitar

Eastern Pheobe

Instruments:
Burke tin whistle, Doug Tipple flute, bongos, conga, frame drum, karatala, egg shaker, shruti box, organ effect on iPad

Downy Woodpecker

Original compositions played upon various acoustic instruments. 

At the moment, the majority of music I record is original folk tunes. Most of these tunes arise whilst out in natural ecosystems or shortly after visiting a natural ecosystem. The titles often reflect an aspect of the ecosystem I had noticed while the tune came about. Lately this is usually a species of bird.

Tin whistles and flutes appear the most often in my recordings; though mandolin, tenor guitar, lyre harp, jaw harp, dulcitar, and a handful of other instruments show up fairly often as well.

And here's some more music I've made along with my friend Dan Jones:
https://soundcloud.com/user-453898279

Guru Poornima Moon

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