What Material Do You Prefer?

Tyghress · Post by **Tyghress** » Sat Feb 19, 2005 7:53 am

Yo! Paul! I don't see pink ivorywood in that list!
(chuckling)

IDAwHOa · Post by **IDAwHOa** » Sat Feb 19, 2005 8:51 am

Wood Wood Wood Wood Wood Wood Wood Wood Wood Wood Wood Wood Wood Wood Wood Wood Wood Wood Wood Wood Wood Wood Wood Wood Wood Wood Wood Wood Wood Wood Wood Wood Wood

Oh yeah, and Overton.

burnsbyrne · Post by **burnsbyrne** » Sat Feb 19, 2005 9:06 am

I have never played a wood whistle but I have played all the other choices. The one I play most is brass and most of the other whistles I have are brass or nickel-coated brass, plus one aluminium and one plastic (Dixon). Now, if someone wants to send me a wood whistle to try out for a while, just send me a PM and I'll give you my mailing address.

Mike

dwinterfield · Post by **dwinterfield** » Sat Feb 19, 2005 9:18 am

wood today
aluminum yesterday
????? tomorrow

Paul · Post by **Paul** » Sat Feb 19, 2005 10:51 am

At this point I like metal whistles best.

Tomorrow? Who knows.

Unseen122 · Post by **Unseen122** » Sat Feb 19, 2005 11:13 am

brewerpaul wrote:Hmmmm, let me think.......
Snakewood?
Blackwood?
Tulipwood?
Bocote?
Birdseye Maple?
Tiger Maple?
Ironwood? American? Australian?
Bloodwood?
Ziracote?
Yellowheart?
Purpleheart?
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What no Boxwood?

Jack · Post by **Jack** » Sat Feb 19, 2005 11:24 am

IDAwHOa wrote:Overton.

Overton is not a material.

Unseen122 · Post by **Unseen122** » Sat Feb 19, 2005 12:42 pm

TooTs · Post by **TooTs** » Sat Feb 19, 2005 1:32 pm

My nicest sounding whistle at the moment is wood.

Hornpiper · Post by **Hornpiper** » Sat Feb 19, 2005 3:47 pm

I personally play a nickel high D, a brass B natural, and aluminum everything else.

Jack · Post by **Jack** » Sat Feb 19, 2005 7:05 pm

Hornpiper wrote:I personally play a nickel high D, a brass B natural, and aluminum everything else.

Who made the brass B natural?

brewerpaul · Post by **brewerpaul** » Sun Feb 20, 2005 6:13 am

Tyghress wrote:Yo! Paul! I don't see pink ivorywood in that list!
(chuckling)

It's a favorite for looks, but definitely not for woodworking!!
Ditto Snakewood. Those four beautiful whistles I made ALL developed multiple cracks several months after I completed them. I've repaired two of the whistles. Colin Goldie has one over in Germany and is going to try repairs himself in light of transatlantic shipping (althought I'll certainly do it for him if he's not happy with the result. The fourth one is in British Columbia. The fellow there is watching the cracks which so far are not affecting the playing. Once they stabilize, I'll repair them.

This is not to scare people away from wood-- Of all of the nearly 175 whistles I've sent out, only one or two have developed post-completion cracks apart from these. Most woods are NOT a problem.

Wombat · Post by **Wombat** » Sun Feb 20, 2005 9:05 am

No problem with cracks with my pink ivory tube, Paul. The look and the sound: just beautiful. It's still my favourite high D. If I play my Sindt a bit more, that's just because I can just pick it up and doodle without worrying about drying it out afterwards. I mean, I can just pick it up, put it down, pick it up again. When I know I'm going to really get stuck in, out comes the Busman more often than not.

GaryKelly · Post by **GaryKelly** » Sun Feb 20, 2005 9:30 am

Wood. Duh.

Darwin · Post by **Darwin** » Sun Feb 20, 2005 12:34 pm

Here are two more materials that were omitted from the survey:

My custom bamboo Hoover low A is reedy and resonant, but not hissy--a very pleasing sound for blues and folk ballads.

Then there's the Serpent Village Smithy, made from chrome-moly steel. It has a moderately reedy tone--somewhat similar to the Busman Delrin, but a bit quieter and somehow less resonant. It's a tad heavy, but well-balanced. Also, it's the only high D that's suitable both for self defense and as an emergency pry bar.

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