Preferred Whistles

DCrom · Post by **DCrom** » Fri Nov 12, 2004 12:09 pm

D - Serpent Sweet Polly, Syn, and tweaked Generation red-top. Dixon and Oak get some play, too.

C - Walton's. Syn occasionally (I just got the C tube)

Bb - Syn, Chieftain, Dixon

I like them all, but if I could only play ONE whistle (of those I own) all of the time, it'd probably by the Serpent Sweet Polly D.

emmline · Post by **emmline** » Fri Nov 12, 2004 12:16 pm

Will O'B wrote:I still prefer my Burke Narrow Bore Composite D

Will O'Ban

I'm most likely to play something new on that one too.

burnsbyrne · Post by **burnsbyrne** » Fri Nov 12, 2004 12:50 pm

Sindt D and a muted Clare D. My Humpfrey NB D is on loan to a friend who owns probably $10,000 worth of button boxes, uillian pipes, flutes, fiddles, etc. but doesn't own a decent whistle. FJohnSharp, you know who.
Mike

FJohnSharp · Post by **FJohnSharp** » Fri Nov 12, 2004 12:56 pm

And a $300 bodhran.

I need to schedule a lesson.

demon_piper · Post by **demon_piper** » Fri Nov 12, 2004 1:29 pm

I play concerts alot so I run with a Copeland set, silver high and low Ds and a blackwood keyless flute (his standard model)

for backpacking a Seery Pratten in Polymer and Dixon polymer whistle (both of which are actually fabulous instruments)

just thought I'd drop my two cents to everyone elses

slowair · Post by **slowair** » Fri Nov 12, 2004 2:44 pm

Two favorites these days....

!. Lon Dubh

2. Dixon Tunable.

WHOA is not me anymore.

Mike

Snuh · Post by **Snuh** » Fri Nov 12, 2004 3:00 pm

My favourite has been my Dixon tunable D, ever since I got it for my birthday earlier this year.

A.J.

PhilO · Post by **PhilO** » Fri Nov 12, 2004 4:10 pm

Funny, but last night I was thinking of starting a thread about after all these years of collecting and playing and experimenting and learning, if you had no whistles, which would you go out and buy now to really play every day. My list, in order:

Burke Black Tip D
Abell delrin D
Copeland Eflat
O'Riordan Traveler G
Copeland G
Abell Blackwood Bflat
Burke Viper
Sindt C
I should probably sell the rest.

If I had to pick just one, it would be the Burke Black Tip.

Philo

FJohnSharp · Post by **FJohnSharp** » Fri Nov 12, 2004 4:16 pm

Brass or Aluminum?

RonKiley · Post by **RonKiley** » Fri Nov 12, 2004 7:29 pm

I play all of the ones I have from time to time. Most played are Alba Q1, Hoover whitecap/Oak, untweaked Generation D, and Walton's Mellow D. These are all D. In other keys Dixon G, Gen Bb, Gen C. Least played Clarke original and Sweetone.

Most wanted Humphrey, Sweetheart laminate and Busman.

Ron

rodfish · Post by **rodfish** » Fri Nov 12, 2004 7:30 pm

The three I play the most are my Humphrey wide bore D (just intonation),
Busman Kingwood in D, and a Burke pro session D with black tip. (Brass)

But the one I play the most is the Humphrey. It is something special!

(As are the others.)

Rod

Redwolf · Post by **Redwolf** » Fri Nov 12, 2004 8:13 pm

The ones I reach for the most these days are my Burke Pro Session (brass/black tip), my Busman kingwood, and a little white Hoover PVC (which has become by "by the computer") whistle. Oh yes, and the Sweetheart Pro for outdoor play. I enjoy rotating, though...sometimes just picking up a whistle I haven't played in a while and enjoying rediscovering it.

I thought I was over WhOA, having met what I think may just be the ultimate whistle in my Burke, but I tried a Syn at the NorCal gathering last weekend and couldn't resist at that price, so I've got one of those coming to me as well!

Redwolf

scotta · Post by **scotta** » Fri Nov 12, 2004 8:51 pm

Laughing Whistle high D brass
Hoover NB high D brass
Thin Weasel high D blackwood
Chieftain Low F alloy

talasiga · Post by **talasiga** » Fri Nov 12, 2004 8:56 pm

My favourite is a Sweetheart D. It is not a laminate. I got it in London in 1993. Its maple thru and thru. What is the proper label for it? Anyone?
Thanks .....

Redwolf · Post by **Redwolf** » Fri Nov 12, 2004 9:13 pm

talasiga wrote:My favourite is a Sweetheart D. It is not a laminate. I got it in London in 1993. Its maple thru and thru. What is the proper label for it? Anyone?
Thanks .....

I think it's just a "Sweetheart D." The "Professional" model comes in birch laminate and rosewood.

Redwolf

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