What Is Your Favorite Wooden Whistle?

tomcat · Post by **tomcat** » Thu Oct 21, 2004 9:36 am

i've owned a thin weaseal, busman, and David Boisvert. my favorite - the Boisvert. all excellent whistles. but the boisvert has the sweetness i was looking for. i have a d/c set and they are both wonderful.

chas · Post by **chas** » Thu Oct 21, 2004 6:00 pm

syn whistles wrote:
chas wrote:.

Syn (brown lancewood): all-wood. This is rather like the old-style Sweets. To reach the upper part of the second octave, you really have to blow; very unbalanced.

That doesn't sound good. Let me know if you'd like me to look at it or do a swap.
Cheers, Erle.

Thanks very much for your offer. My words are probably a little more harsh than I had intended. Fact of the matter is, if I played your whistle more than I have, I might very well have a different opinion. It just entered my collection about the same time as I started getting serious on the flute, and I haven't bonded with it.

slowair · Post by **slowair** » Fri Oct 22, 2004 12:10 pm

I'm having a pretty good time learning to enjoy a Lon Dubh that I got last week. Wasn't crazy about at first, but once you learn the little idiosyncrocies of the instrument, you start that phase where you really start to like it.

It's a keeper for now.

rodfish · Post by **rodfish** » Fri Oct 22, 2004 12:47 pm

tomcat wrote:i've owned a thin weaseal, busman, and David Boisvert. my favorite - the Boisvert. all excellent whistles. but the boisvert has the sweetness i was looking for. i have a d/c set and they are both wonderful.

Can you explain in a bit greater detail what you mean by "sweetness?" I've looked at the Boisvert whistles and they look very nice but I haven't heard much about the tone. I lean towards whistles that are pure, (less chiff?). I'm a beginner here, but I like a pure clear tone. Is that what you mean by "sweet?"

Rod

IDAwHOa · Post by **IDAwHOa** » Fri Oct 22, 2004 3:29 pm

slowair wrote:I'm having a pretty good time learning to enjoy a Lon Dubh that I got last week. Wasn't crazy about at first, but once you learn the little idiosyncrocies of the instrument, you start that phase where you really start to like it.

It's a keeper for now.

Glad you like it. The one I got is a little more breathy than I anticipated, but it also a keeper for now!

IDAwHOa · Post by **IDAwHOa** » Fri Oct 22, 2004 3:34 pm

rodfish wrote:
tomcat wrote:i've owned a thin weaseal, busman, and David Boisvert. my favorite - the Boisvert. all excellent whistles. but the boisvert has the sweetness i was looking for. i have a d/c set and they are both wonderful.
Can you explain in a bit greater detail what you mean by "sweetness?" I've looked at the Boisvert whistles and they look very nice but I haven't heard much about the tone. I lean towards whistles that are pure, (less chiff?). I'm a beginner here, but I like a pure clear tone. Is that what you mean by "sweet?"

Rod

For us sweet is towards the pure side, but not neccesarily totally pure and a little breathiness is acceptable. The main aspect of pure for us is to NOT be shrill in the upper octive and to not get too loud either.

Our Weston, which is Sapele, is sweet but has a touch of breath to it. Our O'Ririordan is sweet and quite pure. I have not heard a Rose, but would like to as they are supposed to be quite pure sounding, I do not know about sweet.