Is a wooden whistle worth buying?
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Naturally, since I make wooden whistles, I am predjuiced here, but I think wooden whistles are terrific. I'm a bit skeptical about a $26 USD whistle. If you can try it out first and like it, by all means get it and let us all know about it! I'll bet a LOT of people here would love to buy such a whistle if it's any good.
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The US$20 unknown brand maple whistle I have (doubtless mass produced) was not worth getting, but I have it anyway. This sounds like the kind of whistle that you're looking at, probably...
I've heard (but don't own) some beautiful wooden whistles, but they all ran over US$100, with the exception of the Ralph Sweets, some of which can be pretty good at only, uhm, something like US$40 maybe, or $50, at a guess without checking his site.
I don't know of anyone that makes lower priced wooden whistles that are worth buying.
(Mass producing metal and plastic whistles is -much- easier to do with consistent quality than wood, which is a tempermental medium at best, and a handcrafted whistle for US$26 doesn't sound likely to me.)
Still and all, if you get to play it and it sounds good, then great! If it's a used whistle, it's always possible the shop doesn't know what they have... if it's a bucket full of near-identical whistles, it's almost certainly a mass-produced like I wasted money on, and if it's neither then, uhm, I don't know.
--Chris
I've heard (but don't own) some beautiful wooden whistles, but they all ran over US$100, with the exception of the Ralph Sweets, some of which can be pretty good at only, uhm, something like US$40 maybe, or $50, at a guess without checking his site.
I don't know of anyone that makes lower priced wooden whistles that are worth buying.
(Mass producing metal and plastic whistles is -much- easier to do with consistent quality than wood, which is a tempermental medium at best, and a handcrafted whistle for US$26 doesn't sound likely to me.)
Still and all, if you get to play it and it sounds good, then great! If it's a used whistle, it's always possible the shop doesn't know what they have... if it's a bucket full of near-identical whistles, it's almost certainly a mass-produced like I wasted money on, and if it's neither then, uhm, I don't know.
--Chris