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can anyone who posted on this thread recommend a good quality Kena/Quena to learn on?

Do you have experience with Killarney's and if so how does that Rose compared to them?[/quote]e]

I don't, but my sense is that they are a similar design to a Sindt, and therefore wouldn't be as loud

Does anyone have current contact info for Marc Lofgren and/or know if he is still making whistles? I have a brass/blackwood D/C combo that I got off eBay. It was a lovely whistle that I was really enjoying and then it rolled off a counter and developed a crack in the blackwood head joint that now ex...

my go-to whistle for really big loud sessions (especially if there is a piper) is a Rose. Not Fred Rose, but a newly launched whistle company whose whistles are made by my friend Stefan Kelischek (grandson of George). They are basically susato heads on aluminum bodies. I like the tone better than a ...

I own and play both MK pro and Goldie low D's and I'd echo most of what has already been said, especially by pancelticpiper and Hooleh. I have heard the MK signature tone described as "smokey" and I resonate with that, perhaps more flutelike compared to the Goldie's so-called "cosmic ...

I got an Eb early on because I learn tunes by listening to and then playing along with recordings, and I have found many that were a half step up from standard pitch (Gavin Whelan, Matt Molloy, a few McGoldrick tracks, and Dervish to name a few). I started with a Freeman tweaked Generation which wor...