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I never said that Brian Finnegan uses triple tounging to avoid the difficulty of using rolls as I doubt he finds rolling difficult at all.. As for cutting with the left hand index finger,- I find that it is both easier and that it sounds better, but by all means, people may use their toes for doing ...

,-alternatives are useless No, they're not, although I would perhaps question the value of reversing the cut and tap in this case. However, alternatives can, in the long term, be a means of variation and are thus worth having under your fingers. In the short term they allow you to play a satisfacto...

Thanks, guys. I'm working specifically on the b roll. Alternatives are certainly nice, but unless they are going to help me execute that roll cleanly, I'll have to save them for later. Exactly,-alternatives are useless, and only serves to never learn that B-roll. Perhaps you're having the same prob...

AYE MATES, That is a whole lot of pennies for 4 "penny whistles". :boggle: :lol: Cayden It would be worth all those pennies if one became a better whistler. Sorry to say, not even all the Copelands in the world, nor a hefty pricetag will make us play better. I'm the owner of a high D bras...

My favorite high D whistle is a Mellow D as tweaked a number of years ago by Vargas (whatever happened to him?) In addition to reworking the mouthpiece, he added about 1/4" of brass tubing on the end to fix the intonation. He also added a tuning slide. The tube is about 1.5mm greater in diamet...

Thing is, injection-moulded plastic was all the rage in the 1950s; it was viewed as an exciting new technology, sort of 'hip'. A whole new industry, plastic model kits, was born, and was quite popular in the 1960s. I can see Generation, back then, thinking that they needed to stay modern, current, ...

Perhaps they thought plastic was safer than lead.

Most likely they didn't care. Lead was considered unharmful by the industry,-a natural substance.
They could have used silver-solder, but lead was cheaper.

Mind your saliva folks,-here's something to really drool over. Forget Copeland whistles, or any other brand for that matter. This gem is rare and hard to come by, and not only that,-it has a sound that most whistles could envy. Allow me to present a Generation D-whistle made before the plastic fippl...

I have a Copeland D myself that I consider selling sometime in the future, and I would
be pleased if you could inform me about the final selling price.
Thanks, and happy selling.

Here's some whistle eye candy for ya all:

Thanks for the reply. I'll shoot some pics etc. Then I'll post it for sale. I also have a Generation D made before they started injection molding the fipples. In other words, an all metal Generation. Fully playable and very nice sounding, so it is a decent player and not only suitable for sitting on...

Just wondering . . . what would I get for a second hand Copeland brass high-D these days?

College graduate in social work with experience in drug-rehabilitation, behavioural change (sorry folks, no cure for WHOA ) and prostitution and human trade.

. . . and I wish this forum was much more than a forum. In that way, posting musical examples would be easy.
I do have a few ideas though . . .

Countersinking the holes will cause less turbulence and improved efficiency, and could therefore very easily raise the pitch.
Make a whistle from pvc-tubing first and experiment.