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Hmmm. I've completely failed to get the head off a Feadog. Hot water...brute force. Nothing works. And I've done lots of whistles bofore, and helped others when they had difficulty. But this one has me beat. Hurray, cheer, cheer! I succeeded right now but in a very drastic and risky way: I brought ...

My Feadog was tough to defipulate also. What I ended up doing was to put it in the freezer for 10 minutes before dunking in hot water. That worked. Gotta move quick tho - before the temperatures equalize. With my LBW a long hot soak did the trick - but the paint went gooey as well - so now its a LB...

[Thread revival. - Mod] Hmmm. I've completely failed to get the head off a Feadog. Hot water...brute force. Nothing works. And I've done lots of whistles bofore, and helped others when they had difficulty. But this one has me beat. Today I encountered the same difficulty: it seems that the mouthpie...

That's the first design Feadog, popularly called the Feadog "Mark I." There have been four Feadog whistlehead designs and most people consider the Mark I to be the best of them all (as do I). Wonderful velvety tone. As I recall several years ago you sent me a tweaked Feadog D for me to tr...

There I was, buying a lot of instruments. First, many low D’s. Chieftains, Kerry, mk, McManus. The journey of getting the different instruments, trying them out, comparing them, and departing from them was a very fascinating adventure. I started ordering whistles directly from Colin...and through t...

Now we only have to understand whether, for our ear, the thumb hole works, and whether or not it distorts the whistle of its essential or typical characteristics. The issue with thumb holes isn't if they work or not. Its that we usually don't want to use them. I taped over mine. On my Burke A, the ...

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You are, by your own admission, a relative newcomer to whistles Sorry, CPA, I got you mixed up with someone else there and actually have no idea if you're a newcomer or not! But still not sure just what you're trying to prove... The identification of the writer does not matter: the topic is the rea...

So, in practice, it is a musical instrument very suitable for the recording room and in search of very refined, pure, balanced and clear timbres. Is that what you are telling me? Pure tone comes down to the mouthpiece design. you could make a chiffy small bore whistle. Burkes are larger than normal...

No philosophy: only the will to arrive at a precise dictionary definition (a description that leaves no doubt). The manufacturer Generation calls its whistles "flagiolets". Curt Sachs wrote (in "History of Musical Instruments") that the flagiolet is a small recorder with six ton...

Just to add that a local fluter/whistler plays an Abell, I think it is, with a C thumbhole, and has done for donkey's years. We've also had a recorder player sitting in at sessions on occasion. None of us ever thought of the Abell as being a recorder in the slightest, and primarily because it doesn...

I think the easiest way to answer the question of what makes something a whistle is to use a more extreme example. Carbony makes a whistle with highland bagpipe fingering and scale. Is it a bagpipe or a whistle? "Open upright flutes, without slow air chamber, with open whistle, and passage to ...

Just to add that a local fluter/whistler plays an Abell, I think it is, with a C thumbhole, and has done for donkey's years. We've also had a recorder player sitting in at sessions on occasion. None of us ever thought of the Abell as being a recorder in the slightest, and primarily because it doesn...

You're probably right but I'd like you to motivate it. An unfamiliar use of 'motivate' partially cleared up by Google, but let's give this a shot... You are, by your own admission, a relative newcomer to whistles asking questions about them (purpose of thumb holes, narrow bore etc.). But still defi...

I have one of Joseph Morneaux's "drop C" whistles with C & Fnat thumbholes along with a 7th hole below the low D for C. It definitely is a whistle, not a recorder. For example, you do not half hole the thumbhole to reach the 2nd octave like a recorder. I am still getting used to it, b...