Which Whistle makes the player look most seedy?

Martin Milner · Post by **Martin Milner** » Fri Apr 25, 2003 10:02 am

It's a Dale-established scientific fact that playing the whistle makes you look seedy, and that was the main reason I took up this instrument. I'm sure you're the same.

but...

which brand, material & key is the seediest of all?

I would have to vote for a Generation brass D, preferably scratched tarnished & dented just sufficiently to suggest a careless owner who uses string instead of a belt but requires the whistle for their livelihood and can't afford a new one.

Can anyone suggest a seedier option?

TelegramSam · Post by **TelegramSam** » Fri Apr 25, 2003 10:17 am

I beat up and rusty clarke with the fipple held in place by duct tape.

Jack · Post by **Jack** » Fri Apr 25, 2003 10:26 am

I didn't know what the word seedy meant until I saw this post. I had to go ask the dictionary.

Redwolf · Post by **Redwolf** » Fri Apr 25, 2003 10:30 am

Hmmm...I think I'd have to vote for a Water Weasel, with plenty of plumbing code left on. Looks a little like you couldn't afford to buy an instrument, so you made one out of the pipes left over from the rich guy down the block's bathroom remodel.

Gotta love 'em, though...they're seriously cool!

Redwolf

glauber · Post by **glauber** » Fri Apr 25, 2003 10:37 am

Redwolf wrote:Hmmm...I think I'd have to vote for a Water Weasel, with plenty of plumbing code left on. Looks a little like you couldn't afford to buy an instrument, so you made one out of the pipes left over from the rich guy down the block's bathroom remodel.

Yeah, that's seedy nouveau, where you spend a lot of money to look like you don't have any. Sort of like shopping for clothes in the Gap. (Sorry for the US-centric joke; people living in the civilized world, please substitute Gap for your local store that sells artistically grungified jeans to teenagers.)

ErikT · Post by **ErikT** » Fri Apr 25, 2003 12:00 pm

glauber wrote:Yeah, that's seedy nouveau, where you spend a lot of money to look like you don't have any. Sort of like shopping for clothes in the Gap. (Sorry for the US-centric joke; people living in the civilized world, please substitute Gap for your local store that sells artistically grungified jeans to teenagers.)

Actually, the sad thing is that it's not US-centric... we went by 11 Baby Gaps while walking from the Arc du Triumph and Notredam. And about the same from the Tower of London to Picadilly Circle. It is a world-wide invasion. In fact, it was so cold in Paris one day that we were there, that we had to buy socks in one of the Gaps to put on Madelyn's (our little girl) hands. It was spring so no one was selling gloves. We still have the socks... now our little boy uses them as socks.

Erik

CHIFF FIPPLE · Post by **CHIFF FIPPLE** » Fri Apr 25, 2003 12:18 pm

But Martin,

SEEDY

Ain't Cool

Alba cool

Generation Seedy

Jayhawk · Post by **Jayhawk** » Fri Apr 25, 2003 12:44 pm

If you want to be truly seedy (a goal shared by one and all), you should steep your water weasel in strong, dark coffee to give it that "used" look...

Eric

Walden · Post by **Walden** » Fri Apr 25, 2003 1:08 pm

I think an Asarkar low whistle would be a good choice for the individual desiring the seedy look. They come pre-dented, and are made of heavy pipe, with a very uneven finish.

ErikT wrote:Actually, the sad thing is that it's not US-centric... we went by 11 Baby Gaps while walking from the Arc du Triumph and Notredam. And about the same from the Tower of London to Picadilly Circle. It is a world-wide invasion.

I first saw the Gap in Manila, a decade or more ago. May be the only one I've seen. Mayhaps I should get out more.

Jack · Post by **Jack** » Fri Apr 25, 2003 1:09 pm

I first saw the Gap in Manila, a decade or more ago. May be the only one I've seen. Mayhaps I should get out more.

I've never seen one.

TonyHiggins · Post by **TonyHiggins** » Fri Apr 25, 2003 1:09 pm

Seedy, as in gone to seed. This happens to vegetables left in the ground after they should have been picked.

I'd go with the brass Generation, but I'd specify a red top. It looks like a toy. (In the hands of a fool, it is a toy.)
Tony

daveboling · Post by **daveboling** » Fri Apr 25, 2003 1:13 pm

I may have a contender. A home-made copper, Low-D whistle (plumbing pipe) with a rough-sawed piece of broomstick handle for a fipple, held in place with a nail driven through the pipe/broomstick assembly, with 1/4" (thats a little under a centimeter for you mega-state people

) protruding from each side. I have dubbed it "Frankenwhistle", and its the most responsive low whistle (of the three I've tried :roll: ) I've ever had. The copper pipe attained a proper patina by way of a leak in the workshop roof.

LOL,

dave boling

Jack · Post by **Jack** » Fri Apr 25, 2003 1:19 pm

I may have a contender. A home-made copper, Low-D whistle (plumbing pipe) with a rough-sawed piece of broomstick handle for a fipple, held in place with a nail driven through the pipe/broomstick assembly, with 1/4" (thats a little under a centimeter for you mega-state people ) protruding from each side. I have dubbed it "Frankenwhistle", and its the most responsive low whistle (of the three I've tried ) I've ever had. The copper pipe attained a proper patina by way of a leak in the workshop roof.

At least copper...looks semi-instrumental. A water weasel doesn't even look like something you should be putting in your mouth.

And don't forget about my whis..er tube made out of weeds.

rosenlof · Post by **rosenlof** » Fri Apr 25, 2003 3:00 pm

I'd think a Clarke looks seedier than a Generation. The rolled metal, the seam on the back, the clunky block of wood. The Gen is positively sleek compared to that!

But if you have the painted on diamonds, that's class!

Aodhan · Post by **Aodhan** » Fri Apr 25, 2003 3:22 pm

I would have to say a Clarke, painted black, with little dents and dings where you have fenced with friends using it.

One of the players at our seisun (Normally plays bodhran) has a couple like that, he uses them as knockabout whistles out at the faire we both participate in.

Aodhan