ANDROMEDA - HARPER’S PROP TIN WHISTLE

KDMARTINKY · Post by **KDMARTINKY** » Mon Jun 13, 2005 5:08 pm

Just scanning eBay and found a Harper's Soprano D if anyone is interested.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 97313&rd=1

MarkB · Post by **MarkB** » Mon Jun 13, 2005 5:17 pm

I watched one of the episodes that had a whistle similar to that in it and I thought at the time it was a Clark Sweetone.

MarkB

KDMARTINKY · Post by **KDMARTINKY** » Mon Jun 13, 2005 5:19 pm

Mark:

If you look closely I think the whistle has been modified. I don't know if Harper Whistle come with such mouth pieces, but I could be wrong.

MarkB · Post by **MarkB** » Mon Jun 13, 2005 5:22 pm

You're right but I still smell a Sweetone in there or they modified it enough not to endorse the whistle or pay for it use.

MarkB

jsluder · Post by **jsluder** » Mon Jun 13, 2005 5:24 pm

It's not a Harper brand whistle. According to the ebay listing, Harper is the name of a character on the show who plays the whistle. It looks like a Sweetone.

KDMARTINKY · Post by **KDMARTINKY** » Mon Jun 13, 2005 6:20 pm

Ah, its always in the fine print...I missed that.. I didn't think that Harper's had a plastic mouth piece, but since I have never played or seen one up close, I wasn't certain.

khl · Post by **khl** » Mon Jun 13, 2005 6:53 pm

I suppose someone could attach a celebrity nostalgia to this, but 100+ dollars is too much for a Sweetone, no matter who's tweaked it.

Wanderer · Post by **Wanderer** » Mon Jun 13, 2005 7:08 pm

looks exactly like the green "Celtic" sweetone I got from Unseen122

Unseen122 · Post by **Unseen122** » Mon Jun 13, 2005 8:20 pm

I was about to say that it looks exactly like my old Celtic whistle which I traded to Wanderer, but you beat me to it.

Jay-eye · Post by **Jay-eye** » Tue Jun 14, 2005 12:17 am

I saw these for sale in a music shop the other day....

£3.95, I think they were.

Entropy · Post by **Entropy** » Tue Jun 14, 2005 11:38 am

Hey, I've got one of those! Does anybody want to pay me $100 for it?

fearfaoin · Post by **fearfaoin** » Tue Jun 14, 2005 11:56 am

Wanderer wrote:looks exactly like the green "Celtic" sweetone I got from Unseen122

My Celtic SweeTone was my first whistle. I still have it. It looks exactly like the Andromeda
model they're selling, down to the gold Trinity knot stamped on it. I don't think they modified it at all.
I can't beleive someone will pay $100 for a $10 whistle, regardless of its celebrity status...

P.S., what is up with Gene Roddenberry characters playing tin whistles? Wouldn't people who have
conquered space develop more complicated instruments? Though, I wouldn't want to play GHB on the
confines of a spaceship, now that I think on it...

Wanderer · Post by **Wanderer** » Tue Jun 14, 2005 12:19 pm

fearfaoin wrote: My Celtic SweeTone was my first whistle. I still have it. It looks exactly like the Andromeda
model they're selling, down to the gold Trinity knot stamped on it. I don't think they modified it at all.
I can't beleive someone will pay $100 for a $10 whistle, regardless of its celebrity status...

I agree..There's been many times I wished that i could somehow "leave a comment" on ebay auctions to help warn people away from dubious auctions.

fearfaoin wrote: P.S., what is up with Gene Roddenberry characters playing tin whistles?

I don't know, but I think it's cool. Actually, I'm always glad to see whistles on tv or in movies. I was playing back before "Titanic" and maybe just a tad before Riverdance, so I was able to see how big of an impact those movies had on whistling and irish music around these parts. I know a lot of people who roll their eyes at the folks that run out and buy an instrument to be "just like that Spillane guy". But if only one out of a thousand of those folks develop a real love of the music, and some actual skill, I think it's a good thing.

Besides, that's kind of how I started--saw someone playing one, had no idea what it was or what kind of music it really was, and went of looking for one half-cocked. Luckily, I didn't get hoodwinked into spending $100 on my first $12.00 whistle

(though in the interest of full disclosure, I have to admit that my first "whistle" was a recorder, because the woman I was dating at the time didn't know better)

Daniel_Bingamon · Post by **Daniel_Bingamon** » Tue Jun 14, 2005 8:44 pm

The fan fiction series "Hidden Frontier" actually did a trek episode where they back in time to when the Titanic was sinking and offloaded some of the victims to take them to the future.

Maybe the music instrument budget on these Roddenberry series has just enough to handle tinwhistles.