I've been lurking here and going through the archives for the past week or two since I'm currently in a job where I'm at a computer all day, and thought it would only be polite to drop in and say "Hi."
I've actually played around on whistles for much of my life, starting with a C Sweetone (blue) with a large dent in the front. Currently I have Eb and G Susatos, a C Clarke original (my favorite) and an AWOL Little Black Whistle with a Bb Generation and a D Meg in the mail (I think I'm succumbing to WhOA)
I'm also lusting after a low D whistle. I come from a bassoon background, so low winds sound right to me.
Tell us something.: Well dang, I just want to change my password. looking for that correct page! Thank you! Ohh good grief, I get it, you have to be careful who you let in because of spammers, but sigh.... I'm in a hurry, can we move this along please. :)
I'm an old bassoon player, too. Welcome! I still want to lift my thumb when I shift octaves on the whistle. Ugh...hard to teach an old dog new tricks but I keep trying.
So glad you left lurk mode to say Hi.
Peace,
Fran
An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth creates a world that is blind and toothless - Ghandi
I suspect blind and toothless may not be optimum for good whistle playing...but then again...
Bassoon player myself actualy it was my first instrument (4 years in my school band started in sixth grade) who knew there were so many whistling Bassoon players.
Tell us something.: Whistle player, aspiring C#/D accordion and flute player, and aspiring tunesmith. Particularly interested in the music of South Sligo and Newfoundland. Inspired by the music of Peter Horan, Fred Finn, Rufus Guinchard, Emile Benoit, and Liz Carroll.
Tell us something.: Whistle player, aspiring C#/D accordion and flute player, and aspiring tunesmith. Particularly interested in the music of South Sligo and Newfoundland. Inspired by the music of Peter Horan, Fred Finn, Rufus Guinchard, Emile Benoit, and Liz Carroll.
I hear you on that. I'm in the midst of summer vacation myself, in a different part of the country from where I go to school no less. Of course, my bassoon was one of the things that got dragged all the way across the country with me, never mind the fact that there's no band or orchestra for me. I'm just lucky my neighbors don't mind my playing.
Bassoon costs are probably why WhOA set in so quickly. I don't blink at a $50 reed order, so $20 worth of whistles is nothing to me.
Tell us something.: Whistle player, aspiring C#/D accordion and flute player, and aspiring tunesmith. Particularly interested in the music of South Sligo and Newfoundland. Inspired by the music of Peter Horan, Fred Finn, Rufus Guinchard, Emile Benoit, and Liz Carroll.
Yeah, I'd love to get one of those fancy new Fox ** bocals, but when you can get five or six handmade world-class whistles for the same price, it's really hard to justify the bassoon upgrade. (Besides, it never seems like I'm happy with just one bocal...)
John
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The Internet is wonderful. Surely there have always been thousands of people deeply concerned about my sex life and the quality of my septic tank but before the Internet I never heard from any of them.
Welcome! I can only confess to a year of oboe in high school. But I paused long enough looking at a bombard offered on eBay to wonder how much reeds were going to run me...
I spent my marching band years toting a piccolo, so the whistle range sounds just fine to me.
"It might be a bit better to tune to one of my fiddle's open strings, like A, rather than asking me for an F#." - Martin Milner
