Favorite Whistles

[houstonwhistler]

What is your favorite whistle and why? I have accumulated a number of inexpensive whistles, and I guess I lucked into one of the mythical 'good' Generations and also a nickel Clare that I'm fond of. The Clare has a great tone and is in good tune to itself. Love them both.

[ecohawk]

Depends on key and tune. If you're only considering high D and ignore how much better some whistles are for certain tunes IMHO, then it's a toss up between my Sindt brass head/silver body or the Schultz blackwood Thin Weasel.

ecohawk

[Thomaston]

Out of everything I've owned and/or played:
1. A friend's Lon Dubh
2. Burke DAN. I wish I'd never sold it.
3. Busman. My current main session whistle.
4. Freeman Mellow Dog C. I love this C! People who get the Mellow Dog in D and pass on the D/C set are really missing out.

[narrowdog]

my everyday whistle.. Thornton high D, why? it suits the way I play
or to put it another way, I just get on with it.

Sindt C... Smoooooooooth

Goldie low D... just a good whistle.

[tomcat]

Old chieftian A, new Hoover brass A, onyx low d, somers c, silkstone alloy D, Reviol G, dion wood B. not necessarily in this order. All exceptional.

[PhilO]

Sindt sterling silver/brass D
Walton Golden Tone C
O'Riordan Traveler Bflat/A
O'Riordan Traveler G
Copeland G

Philo

[Poppi]

I agree with Thomaston. I love my Mellow Dog C. I play this more than the Mellow Dog D. Lately, I play the Mellow Dog C more than any other whistle. For a D whistle, I prefer my Thornton D and Dixon Trad. Lately, I've revisited my Generation D and really like it.

Poppi

[Mikethebook]

My Mellow Dog D & Goldie Big O Low D.

[cai-shao-yang]

i love the SHAW,so loudly!Crispy clear!It is often undervalued

[killthemessenger]

Rose, KPro.

[Mr Ed]

The ones I've made and a Generation Bb, until I make one that'll match/top it.

[NicoMoreno]

Feadog D, Generation D, and a couple Generation B whistles.

The first two are both better than just about any other whistle I've tried in D, but are also completely standard off-the-shelf whistles. The Generation I picked more or less at random out of a box of them, so I know I can get back-ups whenever I want. Both of the Ds are just very well balanced with a very nice whistley tone. The Bs are standard Bbs that I chopped a bit off the tube at the top and a littler bit off the bottom. Perfect B whistles.

[highland-piper]

Quoting Jerry Freeman's ebay listing:

*There’s really no such thing as a key of C Mellow Dog. With a D tube, the Mellow Dog is a wide body whistle. With the C tube that comes with a Mellow Dog D/C set, it’s a standard body whistle, identical to a key of C Blackbird.

So my favorite is my Mellowdog. I like the C Blackbird, but not as much. I also really like my Carbony low-G. These are so different from one another that it's not really possible to compare them.

[Adrian W.]

Sindts in D, Bb, and A (latter two are new, my first A whistle); nice traditonal tone
Impempe D; smooth and creamy
Humphrey Trad C (also have a D+ body for it);powerful
An old Clarke original in C I found last summer in an antique store; lovely and smooth

[ghicken]

I like my Freeman Generation set the best. I like the sound of my Feadog D but it is temperamental and my Clarkes always sound less in tune. I mentioned all of my whistles because any one of them can be my favorite when I pick it up. It's just that it may not be so when I put it down.

Gary