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The general design and the 12-97 mark look exactly like a Sweetheart whistle I once had. 1990's era. I just looked online at Sweetheart whistle designs and I'd say it's a match. There would of course be slight design variations over time, so search for the year of manufacture and see what shows up. ...

That organized list of whistle materials and their relationship to clogging is a great help!!! Looks like two main options are successfully used to prevent excess clogging: 1) surface treatment, various methods 2) including a non-metal material for the windway. Alba seems to have the second method i...

This important and popular topic of clogging brings to mind the issue of how in general, the larger the windway dimension, the longer it will take for clogging to happen. Meaning that going from high D down to low D and low C, the lower the key, the larger the windway gets, so theoretically, for an ...

I can imagine uses for that on Halloween. Lots of reverb going on.......

Did you buy them new or used? Is the D bore surface rougher on the surface than in the C? I'm wondering if a previous player was cleaning them and by chance roughed up the surface. Rosewood has something of a more open grain than something like maple, and certainly metal, but a new rosewood whistle ...

If someone could now invent an add-on whistle mouthpiece heater that works to keep the whistle mouthpiece so warm that clogging is effectively eliminated, especially with the metal-mouthpiece whistles, they would provide a great solution. It's too simple of an idea. Imagine a mesh of wire in a flexi...

I should have specified in my original post that I would be looking for " YouTube or other live video playing of the whistles ", as the preferred way to do a review. Put the whistles through a range of live performance tests; through the full 2+ octaves of notes, for demonstrating playabil...

<t>At least two new whistles have been released very recently, as of December, 2022. We need playing reviews from anyone who has played them, including, hey, what an idea, the manufacturers!<br/> The new Killarney in A, and the new Tony Dixon Mui Cosht whistle in soprano D are two examples. Nick Met...

This graph borrowed from the Bracker whistle website has interested me a long time. Obviously there are many factors that affect tone and playability other than just bore size related to key. Mouthpiece and window/blade design, size of tone holes, being two. Of course the PURPOSE of the instrument, ...

I'm attracted to the motto of the Australian Ulysses Motorcycle Club. "Grow old disgracefully..." I recently picked up a discount copy of The Odyssey, so now I'm really looking forward to reading the chapter where Ulysses and his crew take motorcycles through the outback on the way back t...

If you want a key distinctly different than the possible screechiness of high D, then also as a flute and whistle player, I'd consider either a C whistle that has a balanced tone, but you have options there such as the brighter/balanced tone of the Killarney and Cobre which are precise players with ...

Perhaps contact Alba whistles :D (https://www.albawhistles.com/index.php#home) to see if they have or know where to get single pieces or low quantities of red material, either Delrin or similar, such as the Albanite used by Alba for their fipple plugs and whistle enhancements, which start out in tub...

Well, indirectly and directly. Here are comments and performances of Optima and Shearwaters, by a world-class performer (Orlaith McAuliffe) and a world-class whistle reviewer (Nathaniel Dowell) An Optima Eb put through all kinds of performance tests by a musical genius: https://www.youtube.com/watch...

Great work with the Bb whistle, facet, I'm thinking there are likely a lot of owners of low D and alto whistles who would love to have them collapsible and much more portable. Don't be surprised if you get approached for such an idea. :thumbsup: My experience with a Generation high G was that it was...

If conical is so rare of a find, and if you have one that is otherwise suitable, you might consider applying a strip of metal or metal tape to the underside of an existing whistle, for the "heft". That will to some degree alter the tone as the responding vibration behavior of the tube then...