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I sometimes play C# using OOO XXX, which I find helpful in The Road to Lisdoonvarna for instance. Might that help?

Pancelticpiper, I clean forgot to ask - is your Freeman Generation Bb that you're so happy with in brass or nickel plated? Have you found over the years that it makes much difference or any at all?

This has all been wonderfully useful - I think it's going to be a Freeman and hopefully the Dixon sometime in future. Can't wait to play in Bb! Take care all.

Too true, joshuaZ - I was a Literature kid myself :) And the Physicists were right up there with the Engineers, Medics, and Lawyers as the most insanely overworked students there. (Not that we weren't as well, but there was a spectrum from generally overworked through to heart palpitations as the no...

Thanks a lot for so much useful info! Highly generous and just what I needed :) I'm really glad several people have pointed to Jerry Freeman's tweaked whistles; I hadn't even considered them because I had falsely assumed that they would be way out of my price range. And lo and behold it seems that t...

Thanks for the input so far, will be turning this one around in my mind for a while yet before I dare purchase anything. Considering that I'm effectively skint in any case and most certainly can't get both! (Also am part of the global community of players who can't just walk into a shop and try them...

Hello all, I've been silently haunting this forum like a spectre at the feast since I started whistling a few months ago. Judging by the quality of discussion so far it looks like a great place to ask for advice. I've moved up to the brass Dixon Trad D after labouring on the crummy Feadog I started ...