Is high G the highest key whistle made?

It would be tough to make something higher. You might want to try a garklein recorder, which is roughly the c above g. The first finger hole is at most an inch below the windway.

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Have never seen a musical whistle higher than high G. Any talented whistle maker could make one, but it's getting into sports whistle frequency range. More of a special effects instrument, like the piccolo trumpet on Penny Lane, by the Beatles?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeCKAWQvXzQ

I once tried a "Garklein" and couldn't even get my fingers next to each other. The smalles recorder I can play is a sopranino. And even then it's a tight fit. I can play the Generation F however. Never tried the G though.

The Gen F is relatively easy, the G is just playable, with my fingers.

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Custom whistles for the tweeters...
http://www.mixedflockorchestra.net/?con ... 20whistles
if you're into that sort of thing.

Interesting! Anyplace to hear some audio samples? I could find any on the website.

For audio clips you would have to contact the maker, Andy Lamy, thru the website. I do know that the whistles are very well made.

Here in the Penny Whistle Museum, Room 1 Exhibit 4, we can see our own Daniel Bingamon's wee high d whistle. This is an octave higher than the standard "high d" whistle.



Even that's not the highest key whistle!

Whilst in Room 2 Exhibit 8, you have one of John Orth's wee high g bird flageolets. That would be an octave higher than the "high g" whistles that Generation make.

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-- WhOAD Survivor No. 11373

Wow, I probably couldn't get my fingers on the "high-high" D.

'the slide facilitates the playing of this very tiny whistle.'

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Wow that's tiny. I've played a high G whistle and my fingers starting to lock up, it's a little cramped. High-High D I could maybe train a squirrel to play while I harmonize on alto G some selections from the Nutcracker Suite.

It does. Just have to channel your inner trombonist. And not get too carried away! I once asked Daniel if he could make one without the slide and shifting the two middle holes round back. This would make it entirely playable without the slide. The tiny g whistle is quite playable in that configuration.

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-- A tin whistle a day keeps the racketts at bay.

-- WhOAD Survivor No. 11373

Here's another option just found:
Nick Metcalf demonstrating his high whistles in high F, high G and HIGH A, in the Silverstar model. Sounds fine to me; clear, good tone.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkAxOIJbRJo