brewerpaul wrote:Nice whistle. The very first whistle I ever sold was plumwood.
Paul, your Marblewood whistle was the very first woody I purchased. If I remember correctly (actually I checked my old emails to verify) you
discouraged me from purchasing any higher end whistle with my being a rank newbie. I'm glad I didn't take your advice (that particular time)
as your whistle turned out to be a gem that's carried about regularly. Perfect shirt pocket fit! That's why I don't like T-shirts, no pocket and my belly hangs out.
I do listen and follow the sages here while difficult to figure out who's who cybering about.
I don't have too many of the wood whistles because of all the fear from reading about care, maintenance, cracking, splitting, and so forth. I do have just a few different woods as of now and learning about the woods all along seeing how they hold up against a newbie-ish whistler's tough use.
Feadoggie wrote:ytliek, not a word on how it plays or how it sounds?
Pretty nice whistle, huh?
Feadoggie
More fear... from above... sages, the guy in the sky mentioned in a thread not too long ago about reviews, what they should include, by whom, and IIRC something to the effect there "needs to be a systematic review by competent people". Geez, I'm shaking and wobblin' all ready. So here's my newbie-ish thoughts concerning my Boisvert plumwood high D whistle. (This not a review
) In full disclosure, I did already have a used Boisvert whistle, but, when reedbiter recently posted his new available whistles I decided to leave the used club and join the original and new owners group.
The craftsmanship is exquisite. Exquisite period.
Plumwood with brass ferrules that are engraved, polymer or delrin? plug, tunable and fingering holes finely crafted for sure fire landing with full coverage. The six holes are crafted with a slight indent. I don't know the proper vocabulary word for it, but, carved out or recessed. Beautifully.
As for the sound, keeping in mind my newbie-ish-ness, the tone is pure but with two full octaves of clear and loud notes. The transition between octaves is going to take a little more practice for a clean transition to occur. Its me not the whistle. The upper register is a nicely screaming sweet clear sounding one. The windway on the Boisvert is larger than any of the other high whistles I own. So the whistle demands full breath and no fear of honking while playing. Just lean into it and let it go no fear. Not comparing windway sizewise to any low whistles here but its big. Easily, this whistle fits into any session large or small. If I don't learn to play it well... I'm just going to look at it as its a pretty nice whistle for sure.
I do not know how to record sound yet, excuses, excuses, (possibly a genetic ludite) but eventually I'll get something played/recorded. I'm a slow learner but its been fun. YMMV
And WHOAD has been satisfied for today... Plum Wood Day. 
and pint up 
