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FWIW cold whistles play flat and hot whistles play Sharpe....what is your room Temp?

plas·ti·cine a soft modeling material; I just re-read your post.....looks like you have done the soft putty trick! so, probably needs work on inside of wind-way and blade....... Polishing! Also Polish the the tube if its Brass but most likely its nickel . Polish inside w/water using a Vinyl strip. A...

Well we all have are own idea of how things work in the market place for specialized items, but you can see from the chiff sales section, great flutes and whistle etc, look how long some of those stay for sale and then disappear off the page into sold and old, or unsold, anyway it's sold now, but t...

Hi all, few bites, but no firm commitment, obviously a bad time to sell or trade, so I've decided to withdraw it, it's way to good to price drop below £180. sponge :D Three and a bit days seems a little impatient ... I saw this for the first time yesterday. Oh well. +1 Good Luck Sponge! PS: BTW I w...

Do you know how to do the putty-cavity tweak? If, you want to cover postage to the states(Arizona)I'll have a go at it! I have an Oak High D and a Oak C that I tweaked and they both sound and play pretty good. If, you want to have a go at it yourself? send me a PM here C&F and I'll Coach you thr...

I've waited more than 1 month! BUT, Jerry gave me a free Bb for the wait.

Just wondering, I assume the prices listed do not include shipping, right? Do you have a sense of what that would be to the US, or to continental Europe for that matter? I don't know much about the Russian postal system... And count me in as someone very interested in trying a whistle out on a US t...

Alexander, you should send one of these Low D whistles around the USA (A whistle Tour) other makers have done this with a new whistle. Just my 2 cents! I'm sure a lot of people here would like that. M Hi Mickey! Sure! I'm old forum member and certainly i know about this old-good tradition ;) I defi...

Alexander, you should send one of these Low D whistles around the USA (A whistle Tour) other makers have done this with a new whistle. Just my 2 cents! I'm sure a lot of people here would like that. M

I would keep the Oak whistle.

Would be nice to have Jerry here more often.

Blackbirds and Mellow Dog are great whistles! Buy both ya can't go wrong with these whistles.

Mikethebook wrote:Thanks guys! But that all went way over my head. My music theory I realise is lacking.

Me too but i like this thread a lot!

Tommy wrote:A Howard head can be bought alone. Perhaps the tone tube is DIY?

This gets my vote!

Do the modern Gen whistles come with the head glued on? Just wondering. Yes....at least the last two Bb's I bought did ! I tried really hot water to loosen the Heads but no luck. I didn't want to ruin the heads so I gave up on them(Bb's Brass). All the other Generation whistles can be made tuneable...