Pictures, Pretty Please (mine, FINALLY!)

Zubivka · Post by **Zubivka** » Thu May 20, 2004 10:30 am

1) Foyst, NorCal keeps bragging about his knnnigget recorder-maker whistle as if it was the Grail
2) When we already have several Grails, and everyone knows the only Grail authentique is a three-piece low ouissel by Yvon Le Coant
3) Then I get severely taunted by this NNNNNNicket who smells of boysenberries

Zat doez it.

Fetchez la vache!

Zubivka · Post by **Zubivka** » Thu May 20, 2004 10:45 am

And here's la ouissel

Montana · Post by **Montana** » Thu May 20, 2004 10:55 am

And here's la Vache!

By the way, Zoob, where's Sol-3? Are there two other suns I don't know about?

The Weekenders · Post by **The Weekenders** » Thu May 20, 2004 10:58 am

Geez, that's purty, Zoob.

emmline · Post by **emmline** » Thu May 20, 2004 11:06 am

That is a beautiful ouissel Zoob...but I think M. le Coant must have drilled holes 3 and 6 after the neighborhood wine tasting. Or perhaps he has some unusually short fingers.

Steven · Post by **Steven** » Thu May 20, 2004 11:47 am

Zub, I believe the correct response to that picture is ooh la la?

Steven

(mmmm, boysenberries....)

IDAwHOa · Post by **IDAwHOa** » Thu May 20, 2004 12:39 pm

Steven wrote:Zub, I believe the correct response to that picture is ooh la la?

Steven

(mmmm, boysenberries....)

Nah, the appropriate response would be:

Talk about looking like a recorder!!!!!! :roll:

Notice the smooth, whistle lines of the Bleazey. VERY nice.

strawberries are even better!

SirNick · Post by **SirNick** » Thu May 20, 2004 2:13 pm

Hey Zub,
That really is a great looking whistle!! It does need more exercise though, it's developed "love handles" around the middle.

Zubivka · Post by **Zubivka** » Fri May 21, 2004 12:20 am

emmline wrote:That is a beautiful ouissel Zoob...but I think M. le Coant must have drilled holes 3 and 6 after the neighborhood wine tasting. Or perhaps he has some unusually short fingers.

Hee-hee. Remember it's a Low D.
The offset holes did disturb me at first, for I had to adjust my piper's grip.
However, this makes it unusually easy to play with the fingertips.

SirNick wrote:(...) it's developed "love handles" around the middle.

I like ouisselz to have a full, round, bottom end.
This mentioned before some kinky Swiss beats me to it...

Montana wrote:By the way, Zoob, where's Sol-3? Are there two other suns I don't know about?

Once you hit Milky Way, ask the natives in the suburbs for Sol system. Spot the third planet, Sol-3, the blue one orbiting zigzag with its ridiculously overweight white satellite. My home.
Among the living things, spot the vertical bipedes who breathe through a multi-holed proboscis schnorkel thing i.e. Homo fipplens. My genus.

CHIFF FIPPLE · Post by **CHIFF FIPPLE** » Mon May 24, 2004 2:32 am

SirNick wrote:HeyNorCal!
You're killing me with those pictures! The Bleazey Low D and the Casey Burns Flute are both on my short list of things to spend my childrens college money on. How do you like the wooden Low D?

Chiff Fipple,
Very cool indeed! How many fipple designs are there!?

As many as Star's in the sky

Fipple Art

is fun

SirNick · Post by **SirNick** » Mon May 24, 2004 10:38 am

Oh great Chiff!!!
Just when I think I've updated my "full sets of whistles to aquire" list. You taunt my with your fancy fipple's!!!!!!!!!!

I am defeated......you'll be receiving my order soon......

littlejohngael · Post by **littlejohngael** » Mon May 24, 2004 10:48 am

CHIFF FIPPLE wrote:
SirNick wrote: Chiff Fipple,
Very cool indeed! How many fipple designs are there!?
As many as Star's in the sky
Fipple Art is fun

Do you have a page on your site that shows available fipple designs, or should we just email you?

brianholton · Post by **brianholton** » Tue May 25, 2004 12:57 am

well, current whistles (as I remember them) are -

d': Rose, Copeland brass, Silkstone aluminium, Silkstone 7-hole delrin, Alba, Parkhurst copper, Susato and a couple of 30+-year old Generations.
c': Alba, Copeland nickel, 30+-year old Generation, Susato
Bb: Alba, ancient Generation, Susato
A: 30-year old Overton (2), Alba tuneable
G: Alba
F: Grinter cocobolo
D: Alba

At home I play the Rose more than anything else, though recently I've enjoyed the 7-hole Silkstone. The Grinter is a recent addition, too.

On stage (with Atlantic Bridge), it's either the Rose with a headset mike (AKG) or the Copelands, though I sometimes use the low G and D Albas too. I play a lot of Mandolin on stage as well.

Flutes etc.:
Tony Dixon Delrin flute, and 3-4 Chinese bamboo flutes, plus a couple of Chinese bamboo whistles (mu di), and a 20-year-old Yamaha alto recorder.

and then guitars:
L'Arrivee D09, Baby Taylor, Tacoma Big Chief electro-acoustic.
and also
Tacoma Mandolin, Burgin Octave Mandolin, Blue Lion 6-string lap dulcimer.

(And in New Zealand recently I met a maker of astonishingly odd and very beautiful mandolins: we discussed a solid-body 5-string electric resonator mandola, thoug I don't think we should go into that here

.

brian

CHIFF FIPPLE · Post by **CHIFF FIPPLE** » Tue May 25, 2004 1:34 am

SirNick wrote:Oh great Chiff!!!
Just when I think I've updated my "full sets of whistles to aquire" list. You taunt my with your fancy fipple's!!!!!!!!!! I am defeated......you'll be receiving my order soon......

That was Fipples that you said? wasn't it

The coolours come pretty much come as they come but you can ask for Knot work smileys and letters & names

waitingame · Post by **waitingame** » Tue May 25, 2004 11:59 pm

brianholton wrote:well, current whistles (as I remember them) are -

d': Silkstone 7-hole delrin,

brian

That'll be the Ace Plus then, Brian?

How about a review of it for those of us too cautious to spend that sort of money on something we can't try first?