Sweetest moment: when I got to the display, a gentleman was looking over the 5 whistles and commented that "They should have someone here playing tunes on them". I picked up the Bocote whistle and rattled off The Sweeps Hornpipe...
Let me gloat a bit....
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Let me gloat a bit....
My NA flutemaking friend who is also a world class woodworker convinced me to submit a couple of whistles to the Northeast Woodworker's Association show this weekend in Saratoga Springs. He entered them in the "odds and ends" category which included many hard to classify items: decorative sculptures, knicknacks, musical instruments, models, etc. I went up to see the show today and was floored to see that I had won Third Place!
Sweetest moment: when I got to the display, a gentleman was looking over the 5 whistles and commented that "They should have someone here playing tunes on them". I picked up the Bocote whistle and rattled off The Sweeps Hornpipe...
Sweetest moment: when I got to the display, a gentleman was looking over the 5 whistles and commented that "They should have someone here playing tunes on them". I picked up the Bocote whistle and rattled off The Sweeps Hornpipe...
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Re: Let me gloat a bit....
So there are 2 people out there that are odder than you?brewerpaul wrote:He entered them in the "odds and ends" category ... I went up to see the show today and was floored to see that I had won Third Place!
Good man, Paul!
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Way cool.
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Re: Let me gloat a bit....
Congrats Paul for winning bronze against all odds!glauber wrote:So there are 2 people out there that are odder than you?brewerpaul wrote:He entered them in the "odds and ends" category ... I went up to see the show today and was floored to see that I had won Third Place!
How are you going to spend the prize money? A new house, tools to make a low D, a foundry to cast metal whistles, or a trust fund for the beginning luthiers?
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Congratulations Paul. 
As a matter of curiosity, what were the items that kept you out of first place? I'd be very surprised if they were things I'd like more than your whistles, so those people are lucky I wasn't the judge.
Yes, I know, I don't know what they are. I don't have to know what they are.
As a matter of curiosity, what were the items that kept you out of first place? I'd be very surprised if they were things I'd like more than your whistles, so those people are lucky I wasn't the judge.
Yes, I know, I don't know what they are. I don't have to know what they are.
