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I have played a Chieftain OS low C for ten years, and it sounds great.

If you use a dremel or drill find some material that is the same as the whistle to practice on. For cleaning small holes I like to use small diamond files. Diamond files will cut in either direction. Great for removing wood fibers from the bottom of a wood hole that sometimes leaves fibers hanging i...

TheWanderer wrote:Hi, new guy here. New to whistles and the forum.



What I also need to do, is track down some music to play. Is there an online resource for downloadable music, that's either organised, or sortable, by key?

Click this link http://tinwhistler.com then click on tunes at top of the page.

Mr Gumby’s picture looks some fifes I have seen with what they call a cheater mouthpiece. That was my impression from the photo. I've seen - and heard - similar metal-bodied instruments in person, and there wasn't a true whistle-type fipple arrangement as we usually understand it, but the cheater m...

I assume you could just make a mouthpiece on a ring and and slide it over a hole in the top of a whistle tube. But what do I know! I suspect I'm not the only person who finds holding a low whistle comfortably challenging. I should just try those susato thumb rest thingies. Works for clarinet player...

Mr Gumby’s picture looks some fifes I have seen with what they call a cheater mouthpiece.
There is a whistle maker in Maine “The Whistlesmith” that I have seen a side blown whistle. I have never seen his whistles or heard one.

Might a whistle be closer to a pipe organ than a piano?
https://www.agohq.org/wp-content/upload ... ganist.jpg

Ever seen a whistle with an undercut blade? or if there are examples of undercut blades on high whistles or low whistles! I searched "Undercut" and found lots of use of the word in the Flute Forum, mostly about key holes, nothing about whistle blades. Thanks for any thoughts on this at al...

No dents or dings in the whistles of this man.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6gaU61O9-w
He also has a wood whistle.
https://youtu.be/lZIDzoTAh8I

p51baby wrote: The closest thing I know of to a whistle shop is the online Irish Flute Store based out of Ohio,

Cheers,

Melany

Did they move from Greeley, Colorado? https://www.irishflutestore.com

My Eb Sindt came with a silver tone tube. I wanted to find out if silver sounded different than brass. I fit a brass Generation Eb tone tube to the Sindt. Also added a 1/2'' sleeve to a Generation F tone tube. And have several brass D tone tubes that fit. https://www.snapagogo.com/images/2019/05/23/...

https://www.ebay.com/itm/264327912866



This link works now.

Has anyone played any of the Mountain Made Whistles? The low d is supposedly playable with Fingertips... whistlesmith.com I have not played one. I do not think there is a low D to be played by fingertips. Unless it is off pitch and the buyer accepts off pitch. Or the very seldom person with long do...

This one?
https://www.google.com/search?rls=en&q= ... 52&bih=655

Or here?
https://thesession.org/tunes/98

Hello! To be clear, I would be excited to learn any tunes from other traditions that could work on a high D whistle, not just whistle-specific tunes. Thank you all for any suggestions! Rich Hi Rich, try this web site http://tinwhistler.com then click on tunes then click on category. You can see the...