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Thanks! I had a horrible copy, this is really good quality. And great music.

I have an O'Riordan D/C set in Kingwood, will trade for a Goldie low F & low D, or an MK low F & low D. Will consider offers that include one of these whistles plus ?. It was a gift from a musician, and I'm more comfortable trading it for instruments than selling it. (I could probably sell i...

Why not just get a nickel tube for your Mk II and put the fipple on it? There's nothing that says you have to use the tube that comes with the whistle, a lot of the tubes are interchangeable. I did this with a Mk I, and it does sound better with the thicker walled nickel tube. You may have to try a ...

On a related subject (since the clips are of Vinnie Kilduff): does anyone have a copy of the tutorial cassette that Vinnie Kilduff made years ago of tunes played on whistle? It's called Whistle Wizardry, and appears to have never been re-released on CD. It seems to have been intended as an advanced ...

What took you so long?

Thanks.

The first one in both these clips. It sounds familiar.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqUcxsja1Uw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKMo6aKo_pA

As a whistle warms up and normal condensation accumulates in the airway and around the fipple blade, it can mute the tone a bit and reduce the harshness of an aggressive whistle. If blowing out the condensation temporarily restores the original harsher tone, then there you have it. I think you nail...

Just remembered that my all-time favorite YouTube clip is a version of the Rainy Day, played by Tim Collins. (Poor video quality, good sound.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7qLCr9GBeM

Weird. The photo looks exactly like the Mk I Feadog, both the tube and the fipple. The tube says "Feadog" and has the double ring on the end, just like the Mk I Feadog I found recently. The fipple looks the same, too. They stopped making the Mk I 20+ years ago, I believe. It wouldn't surpr...

I'm playing with carolers who are being accompanied by guitar and violin, and they're playing a bunch of the standard U.S. carols from sheet music (disclaimer: I’m playing by ear). I can play along with their whole repertoire using D, C, and Bb whistles. What walrii just said is probably right, at l...

Some months ago Julie Fowlis said this: "A few years back I also received an amazing few improved Feadog whistles made by Cillian O'Briain from Co. Kerry, one made especially for me in E major (only the second one he ever made) as it suits my preferred singing keys, that is the one from the Tra...

Of my two Gen Bb's, I prefer the one with one dot over the one that has two. To be realistic, though, who knows whether it's because of the particular injection mold used for each, or normal variations within any brand of whistle. The one that has two dots is duller, less responsive, and takes more ...

Hmm, exactly where on the fipple would these dots be located? The markings are on the very end of the fipple, the end that goes onto the tube. The perfectly round end of the fipple--it's only a few mm's wide, you wouldn't think of looking there for anything, but it's there. A picture would help, it...

Regarding Bb Generations: If you study any injection molded plastic part, you will be able to find marks that distinguish what mold cavity in the injection molding tooling produced the part. On Generation whistleheads, you can see this as concentric rings or a dot or group of dots on the thin edge ...

Definitely Sweetone. Dull tone. Very little chiff, so cuts don't sound crisp at all and don't add much edge or pulse to the music. It was easy to play, but I sure didn't want to play it.