Chiff and Fipple Forums

Let me know if you find a source. I've been after the same thing for years. Big Whistle used to catalog them, but no more.

As the man with the hip replacement said, "I stand corrected".

Fractured incisor
I don a new crown
My checking account suffers

In the case of whistlers 'mature' is a polite euphemism for age. Maybe ripen would be a better choice.

I've got a non-tunable Dixon DX001D polymer one piece I keep in my car for my emergency train whistle . I have a rail crossing near my home and this is the one I play waiting for the trains to pass. Very low air requirement and it's soft enough it doesn't blast my ears. I think of it as having a ver...

Have 3 'prototype' Hoover whistles I bought from Mac's garage sale in Feb of 2007. 1st is a Low D in gray PVC with plumbing codes. Reach is a bit of a stretch for me. $50 2nd is a polymer Low F with a faux wood finish. $50 Last is a polymer Low A, also faux wood finish. $40 Add $5.00 each for shippi...

Would you take $105 for just the whistle?

I have an identical one bought at a folk festival in Seattle in the early or mid '80's. I recall it was in the catalog of a former outdoor gear company called Early Winters. Mine is in the Key of C and I still have the tune sheet it came with. I threw it in a drawer for 15 years or so. Found it one ...

Thank goodness you weren't holding the whistle!

Could this be one of those "Wiccan good whistles" Whistlesmith sells on ebay?

check your pm

One useful purpose: Give it to someone ELSES 3-4 year old with tiny fingers as a first whistle.

Old McDonalds Farm is a great first song for a pre-schooler (or a post-schooler like me!) I got it from the Walton's book that comes with their whistle.

The Celtic Nots in Spokane, WA use one. I think they still have a link thru the C&F site

The position is irrelevant. I own a whistle that is blown transversely through a beak soldered onto the side. I also have flutes (quenas) that are endblown.