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Don't waste your time on an Elfsong. Dixon makes good whistles, but they are VERY easy to overblow. I haven't played a Park, but I have several friends who love them. When he makes a Bb, I'll be first in line. I don't like D whistles much, nor C whistles.

I'm hoping you'll make a Bb some day, in all the same varieties as your D whistles.

Is there a good source for finding the correct pronunciation of the Gaelic names of the various airs? Here's how an Irishman explained Irish Gaelic to me: "The thing about the written Gaelic word is that you must first ignore any and all vowels. They are meaningless. Then, as to the consonants...

Sorry you asked, Mason?

free-feet wrote:PS, There's only one green gen, not gens.

The second one is a Dixon Trad, isn't it? I'm guessing she used it so she could tune it to play with the Gen.

Wow, this is an old thread!

Syn.

I have one that I like a lot. It it had been my first whistle, I might have never bought another.

colomon wrote:What's that second one? The picture is too small for me to make out the text...

Yeah, what he said.

Some said Hector the Hero. Marvelous but very sad. Some said Neil Gow's Farewell to ...."whiskey"??? The sad one I know is Neil Gow's Lament on the Death of His Second Wife. Man, that's gotta be a wrist slasher. But the one suggested by HD Sarah has my vote. Blind Mary. Patrick Ball, the ...

I love the key of G. I have several, my favorite being the Humphrey. I've been thinking of getting a Burke aluminum or composite to add to my collection.

medit8b1 wrote:Reyburn wide bore low D on ebay:http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... :IT&ih=020

I'm selling a euphonium too if you were feeling like you wanted to move up to a bigger instrument!

Are the holes in-line or offset?

bradhurley wrote:She Said No

Yeah, that gets my vote! I downloaded this when you first posted it, and then that computer died and I've been wanting to hear it again ever since. Thank you for posting it.

jmccain wrote:

kennychaffin wrote:
True a loss, but what are you gonna do.

Rend garments and gnash teeth.

Do I have to tell you lot everything?

Well, you do if you want us to vote for you in November, John McCain.