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I've been saving up for a planned purchase of a Carbony mezzo A whistle, but just saw the recent glowing review of a Reyburn (their Low D), and then found quite a few other posts praising this maker. I'd love to hear some thoughts/reviews from anyone whose played the Reyburn Mezzo A model, and espec...

That's interesting to note that the tunable high D seems breathier to play, than the one piece, thanks for that. I do want to emphasize that the tone difference is slight--my examples of both the tunable and one piece versions are both on the "clean/pure" side of the whistle tonal spectru...

I'm a huge fan of the one piece high D polymer Dixon's--I own two and both are superb. Right behind is my two piece (tunable) high D polymer--it's tone is very slightly "breathier", which isn't a bad thing, but in this case it sounds just a bit plain. All three are on the quite side, and t...

I love mine. Very nice tone, consistent across the octaves, and not demanding in terms of breath control. It’s relatively quiet, which is a good thing for most of my playing. The 0XX000 crossfingered C nat is a bit off, for me, but I can live with it. The rectangular mouthpiece felt a bit weird on t...

Books with audio by Grey Larsen: The Essential Tin Whistle Toolbox . The Essential Guide to Irish Flute and Tin Whistle . Includes the content from the above book specific to whistle, but in addition to covering the flute, there's also analysis and instruction on advanced ornamentation techniques, m...

Otherwise you can record to a portable recorder -- the Sound Devices MixPre 3 would do an excellent job but is pretty expensive; there are cheaper options available from Zoom and Tascam. I hope this isn't drifting the thread off topic, but I too am interested in recording lessons, my own playing, a...

hans wrote: So what shall we call this device?

Intonator? Pitch patch? Bracker octave enhancer?

Very simple way Download them Make them movies by adding an image or two--use imovie, or garageband Upload them to YouTube Make access private Use YouTube's slowdown Yeah, that would work. I've certainly made use of YouTube's slowdown feature for stuff I've found there. But still hoping for somethi...

I really want to work more on learning tunes by ear. Most of the tunes I've got are on personal cloud storage space, both iCloud and Google Drive, which allows me to access them from my phone without taxing the limited storage I've got on the device. So I'm wondering if one of the slow down apps can...

I've got a Killarney D and a C, both purchased new directly from Killarney in 2018. The first time I brought the D to a lesson, my teacher noted that I sounded flat playing in the second octave. He gave it a try and found he too was flat playing normally, though he could get it pretty well in tune w...

Yes to the above—find a teacher locally if you can. If not, look at the online instruction available on YouTube from OIAM and others. And absolutely pick up either Grey Larsen’s Tin Whistle Toolbox or if you think you might also want to learn flute, his Essential Guide to Irish Flute and Tin Whistle...

What a blast from my past! I have no idea on the answer to your question, but I had one of those as a young child and had forgotten all about it until I saw the picture in your link. Might have to pick one up for old time's sake. Do they have even the slightest musical merit? (Though I remember owni...

I'm currently playing a Clarke Celtic whistle. $10 on Amazon. Say I bought a $50 or $100 whistle. Would it be easier to play? In particular, would the lower range be more consistent and clear, with less in between-octaveness? Or are the benefits of a more expensive whistle strictly intonation? I st...

I own both, having acquired the whistle-only book last June and then getting the whistle + flute book last month. So yes: I think the larger volume is worthwhile. While I only play tin whistle at the moment, I do have a flute on order. But even if I didn’t, I’d want to have the chapters on advanced ...

Okay, I've spent some time with the Carbony, and my impression of it is that it's like a Sweetone with much more backpressure, and a a softer, or more dampened, less open tone. Thanks for the follow up! Any idea when yours was made? And whether it represents the "Session", "Quiet&quo...