So ... who's getting a whistle for Christmas?

LisaD · Post by **LisaD** » Thu Dec 02, 2004 7:21 pm

Or hopes to get one?

Which one?

I received mine earlier this week ... a Humphrey "D" with "E"/"Eb" tubes, and am loving them.

Happy whistling, everyone!

Walden · Post by **Walden** » Thu Dec 02, 2004 7:25 pm

I'll have to ask old Father Christmas what he's planning to bring me. Whistles are good... ocarinas... instruments in general... I need a new C French harp... Cash works too. Maybe he'll bring me some cash. Let's just hope it's not a Mervyn's gift card.

Crysania · Post by **Crysania** » Thu Dec 02, 2004 8:50 pm

Not me...just got a new one (an O'Brien) for my birthday in late October...lovely whistle...will eventually post something of my playing with it (apologies in advance for that! lol

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~Crysania

The Weekenders · Post by **The Weekenders** » Thu Dec 02, 2004 9:18 pm

I had this weird experience on this topic. A year and a half ago, I ordered a high G from Mike Burke because my folk band needed a piccolo type part and I thought it was cool. Well, he doesn't make em very often. The long and short of it was that he just wasn't going to fill the order. So I forgot all about it and figured the order cancelled.

Then about a week and a half ago, I sent back my C because it has problems. A few days later, I saw this package on the doorstep and thought, "wow, that was fast."

Inside was a new blacktip alum high G. Now, the band is broke up and we don't have the gigs for the other band that might need it. But I guess I am going to keep it and pay the Mastercard fee.

So, its not really a present but is a new whistle. My latest thought is to get a new Bb and Eb so I can play along with Frankie Gavin on the Homage to Joe Cooley record. But I don't think anybody is going to give me a fancy-pants whistle for xmas that I don't pay for....

Oh yeah, about the G. It offers the option of doing those tunes you might have wanted to do with the low G with the added bonus of making some ears bleed. Playing in the upper register is sorta like that electrical shock aversion therapy. You go up at your peril and wince while you do!

tommyk · Post by **tommyk** » Thu Dec 02, 2004 9:40 pm

The Weekenders wrote:Inside was a new blacktip alum high G. Now, the band is broke up and we don't have the gigs for the other band that might need it. But I guess I am going to keep it and pay the Mastercard fee.

Cool! Good hands, then. I'd bet anything that is the high G I waited about four months for. I simply can't get away from wooden whistles; that sound and playability is just too dear to me. I'll still be able to "make some eardrums bleed" I'm sure; I'll have an Abell high G before Christmas.

waltcamp45 · Post by **waltcamp45** » Thu Dec 02, 2004 10:25 pm

Last x-mas my favorite present was a low G whistle made by Mack Hoover. This year, I'm sure my favorite will be the low D that I ordered from Mack (er, um ... on my wife's behalf) a week ago.

Walt (who can't imagine playing -- or trying to play -- a high G)

jsluder · Post by **jsluder** » Thu Dec 02, 2004 10:52 pm

Well, it won't be ready in time for Christmas, but I'm getting a Busman whistle for my Dad. He'll get an IOU under the tree.

I never expected Dad to be interested in whistles, but when he saw and heard my Busman, he got that "musical instrument acquisition fever" eyes-glazed look (which in his case is usually only induced by guitars and mandolins). The really neat thing is that Paul is making the whistle out of wood from a tree that grew on the property where my Dad was born and raised.

Of course, I couldn't resist having my own whistle from the same wood, so I ordered two.

Cheers,
John

Will O'B · Post by **Will O'B** » Thu Dec 02, 2004 11:27 pm

Cool story, John.

Will O'Ban

KDMARTINKY · Post by **KDMARTINKY** » Thu Dec 02, 2004 11:43 pm

My wonderful wife along with my twins have bought me a Chieftain Tenor Eb. Its under the tree. Can't wait to blow some air through it.

sandal · Post by **sandal** » Fri Dec 03, 2004 12:38 am

Alba Alto F tuneable and Trevor James P2 (Böhm)!

amar · Post by **amar** » Fri Dec 03, 2004 2:54 am

i'm giving myself a copeland lowD brass and an goldie-overton lowD.

andreaz54 · Post by **andreaz54** » Fri Dec 03, 2004 7:13 am

My wonderful hubby is getting me a Busman made of Macacauba wood with brass fittings!!!!!!!!Now THATS a Christmas gift!!

springrobin · Post by **springrobin** » Fri Dec 03, 2004 9:49 am

Can't say for sure, but there's a charge to Whistle and Drum that I didn't make. I wasn't snooping- honest. Just went in to pay the bill....

IDAwHOa · Post by **IDAwHOa** » Fri Dec 03, 2004 11:45 am

Just sold our house (closes 12/7) and will have 100K laying around.....

Any ideas?

That is actually new house building material and since I have an Overton Bass A on the way and have been quite active in the whistle market (I am on two waiting lists for 3 wooden whistles) I will probably not be doing too much more this year. The fact that I spent $4000 on camera equipment this year kinda tempers things too.

I have sold a lot of reptiles and bonsai to offset some of that cost though.

I did make a deal for a tunable Alba High D for Renee though. Shhhhhhh, she does not know about it. She told me I could sell her non-tunable one when our Syn Alum showed up but she has mentioned the Alba a couple of times since then sooooooooooooo.......

michael_coleman · Post by **michael_coleman** » Fri Dec 03, 2004 12:31 pm

Yes, Barry alerted me to a wonderful deal on a Chieftain Low F. So, I shall be getting that and a flute that someone is making...