Soprano Db Whistle

ConnieS · Post by **ConnieS** » Wed Jul 27, 2005 4:00 pm

Does anybody make them? I'd like to get one if they do.

JessieK · Post by **JessieK** » Wed Jul 27, 2005 4:02 pm

Mike Burke makes them.

Henke · Post by **Henke** » Wed Jul 27, 2005 5:01 pm

Erle Bartlett, Syn whistles.

Cayden · Post by **Cayden** » Wed Jul 27, 2005 5:06 pm

I suppose it depends on your perspective, but I have always seen them called Csharp.

bradhurley · Post by **bradhurley** » Wed Jul 27, 2005 5:13 pm

The only D flat whistle I've seen was a Generation D that got stepped on by a horse when the whistle's owner accidentally dropped it in the stall.

dapple · Post by **dapple** » Wed Jul 27, 2005 5:58 pm

Colin Goldie also makes them.

http://www.overton.de/texte/pricelist.html

Emrys · Post by **Emrys** » Wed Jul 27, 2005 6:37 pm

So does Gary Humphrey. I love Db whistles, they have a wonderful mellow sound!

NicoMoreno · Post by **NicoMoreno** » Wed Jul 27, 2005 8:49 pm

compared to what?

tuaz · Post by **tuaz** » Wed Jul 27, 2005 9:51 pm

Peter Laban wrote:I suppose it depends on your perspective, but I have always seen them called Csharp.

Ya, what's up with that?

I could have sworn that in my youth when I was taking piano and music theory lessons, that I learnt the C# major scale (ie 7 sharps, the scale that comes after F# major) rather than the Db major scale. But since I started frequenting this board, I've noticed everyone talking about Db major rather than C# major.

Did some revamp of music theory take place, that I wasn't aware of? Or maybe the American music system is different (my lessons were under the Royal School of Music syllabus)?

Wombat · Post by **Wombat** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 2:36 am

NicoMoreno wrote:compared to what?

Compared to a dentist's drill.

Wombat · Post by **Wombat** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 2:39 am

I have a hunch that Chris Abell and John Sindt now produce C# whistles but I'm feeling too lazy to do the checking for you.

FWIW, I'm certainly going to order a C# from Erle Bartlett in the near future as well as whistles in other unusual keys.

ConnieS · Post by **ConnieS** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 8:51 am

I could have sworn that in my youth when I was taking piano and music theory lessons, that I learnt the C# major scale (ie 7 sharps, the scale that comes after F# major) rather than the Db major scale. But since I started frequenting this board, I've noticed everyone talking about Db major rather than C# major.

Did some revamp of music theory take place, that I wasn't aware of? Or maybe the American music system is different (my lessons were under the Royal School of Music syllabus)?

Maybe it IS one of those American things. I went back to my Mechanics of Music workbook, and found that there is a key of C# AND a key of Db. So both are right. At least according to this book (by Roger Jenni, c. 1974), which is published in the U.S. I also find both keys articulated in more recent publications. Also U.S. publications.

Doesn't matter for tinwhistle, I guess. Either way, it's hard to find, but apparently findable. Thanks for the help, everyone.[/quote]

Cayden · Post by **Cayden** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 9:23 am

It's not that Dflat doesn't exist as a key but just like nobody would go looking ever for an A sharp whistle of a D sharp (but for B and E flat respectively instead) it's positively strange to ask after a Dflat.

ConnieS · Post by **ConnieS** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 9:30 am

Well, I guess I've still got some nooB left in me. Until we had the internet, I never knew there was anything but a D whistle.

C# it is, then.

Crysania · Post by **Crysania** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 10:55 am

Db and C# are essentially the same key (and are as far as whistles are concerned...string instruments are a different story).

Db is a bit of an easier key to handle in the classical wind world...5 flats as opposed to the 7 sharps of C#. So many people in the classical world will naturally call it Db.

~Crysania