On 5/2/04 5:43 PM, Dale Wisely wrote

> Davy,
>
> I'd like to order one of your Low D's. Please advise.
>
> Dale Wisely

On October 3, Davy Spillane wrote:



(Davy continues:)

Here is the e-mail enquiry reply from my workshop manager John Mc Nicholas..




Dale writes now:

I'm starting to allow myself to perhaps believe we may be closing in on it.

By the way: As of 2004.10.03 22:08:11 GMT.
200.00 EURO=247.91 USD


I confess I was hoping he might offer a comp, but I don't think he knows who I am. (Sorry, I really DON'T mean that to sound conceited. And I am SO glad little bit of unpleasantness from a few years back is behind us). I'm not in the habit of asking for a comp and I wouldn't be ordering one on my own accord. So, I'd propose this: That interested parties contribute, say $20 USD. I will do so myself, of course. Once we raise $250, I'll send Davy the check. Then those who contributed can, if they wish, be stops on a whistle tour. I'll take delivery, keep if for 3 days, and ship it to the next person on the tour list. (Everyone will agree to keep it no more than 3 days.) I'd ask that only fairly experienced players/reviewers participate in the tour, and I'd like to keep it under, say eight or ten reviewers. Perhaps you would allow me to "approve" you for the tour...I need to try to be certain that the tour doesn't, uh, stop somewhere along the way. Then we'll post the mother of all multi-reviewer whistle reviews. Then we'd do something about getting the whistle to some lucky winner in some kind of charity thing, to be worked out later.

Other ideas out there? What do we think?

Now, I'm trying to get over any extant pessimism I have about this whole thing. But, I guess I'm a bit surprised that we haven't heard from anyone yet that has one. We haven't, have we?

Dale

Wow. Well, I'm not going to be on the tour, but I'll be excited to learn who is!

Me too!!!!

And I'll be very intrested in their thoughts on this elusive whistle.

How about a yard sale of your collection of "complimentary" whistles to raise the purchase price?

Gee. I'd LIKE to part with some of them, but I'm unable to do so due to a problem with secur/////////BRK////\\\\\\\\\\\\STOP

$200 E's for a Kerry/Howard style whistle? Wow, that must be some special alloy he is using, Titanium maybe?

As far as the staining of teeth and lips is concerned, I have not experienced nor heard of anyone ever complaining about that problem. Can anyone else verify this as a detrimental thing?

Clogging on all metal whistles IS an issue, but one that is not fairly easily overcome.

We could just wait & see if he comps C&F.

Dale

I think Davy was reffering to his lipstick - which as we all know tends to comes off during vigorous playing sessions. :roll:

Seriously, this hasn't ever been anything I've seen, experienced or even heard of in all my years of playing. Sounds like smoke and mirrors to me.

NorCalMusician wrote:
As far as the staining of teeth and lips is concerned, I have not experienced nor heard of anyone ever complaining about that problem. Can anyone else verify this as a detrimental thing?

I have been playing aluminum whistles and have never had a health or tooth problem. I did have a case of "Flaultist Chin" but this was not a direct result of the aluminum, but the moisture build up between the whistle and my chin.

I don't think anyone actually makes whistles out of pure aluminum anymore. Most are using a aluminum alloys.

The text from Davys workshop manager must be some kind of promotional ploy to put people off buying all alloy whistle and making people think that there is some kind of problem (potentially) with them.
This to me is very strange as Davy has used an Overton for over 20 years,the same one I might add.I did not notice his teeth being damaged in any way,nor any of the miriad players that I know that have used Overtons,Albas and Chieftains
I have to see this as mis-information,not a nice way to launch a new product.
Buy the way,it's not a good idea to grip the whistle with teeth,it only damages the whistle and may wear your teeth out.

Phil.

Yeah..playing all-metal whistles cured me of that habit.

Dale, that avatar is just too scary...

Davy seems to be overcoming it by having a plastic mouthpiece, so it's no longer an all metal whistle.

Yeah, that one (Bush thumbs up) would be just too easy to take advantage of that hand. Could be pointing in a different direction with a different finger!!!!

Is it hoobyjooby about "flautist's chin" or some other wackiness, or is it the whole connection to Alzheimer's? (The health problems with aluminum.)

You remember back in the . . . (some decade) . . . it was thought that Alzheimer's was related to cooking in aluminum pots. I don't know if the connection has borne out, but that's a traditional teaching.

Stuart