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A confession not to be confused with a commercial.

I knew something was wrong today when I inscribed 3011 on a whistle, because at a whistle a day it would take 8.2 years to make that many whistles. I have only been at it 6 years and I don't average a whistle a day!

I couldn't sleep because of these thoughts so that's the reason for this midnight hour.

Mack made a mistake in numbering whistles!

I not only jumped from 2099 to 3000, but I had jumped from 1099 to 2000! A mere 1800 whistles...

So if anyone notices a discrepency in the numbers, that's the cause. I guess I'll offer an apology rather than a recall!

I'll be going back to 1100 tomorrow. It reminds me of the game of Aggravation!

Mack

Well, there are flaws in most numbering systems.

Then, let these oddballs be known as the Gödel whistles.

(Gödel, Hoover, Mack -- an ethereal trilogy)

Don't worry Mack, in this case, today's mistakes are tomorrow's collectors items!

i have to admit, i looked at the number on my recently acquired whitecap, and said to myself, "yeah, right, 20 whistles a month, he would have to be like 86 years old
thanks for clarifying.
although, this will confuse collectors in years to come. maybe the numbers you go back to should have an * next to them.
meir

Mack,

Frankly, I think it would be best if you went to a binary number system. Just ones and zeros. Please begin immediately.


Dale

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You think that's confusing, the early flutes and other woodwinds had a letter system which some people thought to be owners initials.
The word MUSICTRADE would be used to represent 1234567890
So S/N 123 would be depicted as MUS, 246 would be UIT.

And to add to this:

Some Companys uses the 1000's, 2000's, 3000's, etc for different models.

I wouldn't start renumbering. I would keep the numbers in order of production, and if there are 901-whistle gaps, who cares? Only if whistle 2047 was made before whistle 1123 is when it's really confusing.

Zubivka wrote:Then, let these oddballs be known as the Gödel whistles.
(Gödel, Hoover, Mack -- an ethereal trilogy)

Either that or Schroedinger whistles... (where did you find the umlaut?)

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