Another Whistle Maker

Daniel_Bingamon · Post by **Daniel_Bingamon** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 8:21 pm

I just heard about a new whistle maker on the [Whistlemakers] group.

The maker is Charles Tilbury, Granite Falls Manufacturing http://granitefallsmfg.com/

They appear to be brass and aluminum whistles in High C and D. It looks like he does some custom work. Apparently no low whistles yet.

The website appears to be clean, simple, straightforward.

JessieK · Post by **JessieK** » Fri Jul 29, 2005 7:03 am

These look interesting, especially the fact that the brass whistles are completely different in design and manufacture than the aluminum whistles. The aluminum whistles look like (machined) Weasels and Busmans, whereas the brass ones look more like attempted cylindrical Copelands. Interesting. I bet the aluminum ones play well.

PhilO · Post by **PhilO** » Fri Jul 29, 2005 11:10 am

Just visited the site and have two issues. First, I don't see any location for the company; did I miss it? Second, I can't get the sound clips to play and have had no such problem with clips from other sites. Anyone else have problems with the clips?

Philo

brewerpaul · Post by **brewerpaul** » Fri Jul 29, 2005 11:32 am

PhilO wrote:Anyone else have problems with the clips?

Philo

I did

blackhawk · Post by **blackhawk** » Fri Jul 29, 2005 11:51 am

PhilO wrote:Just visited the site and have two issues. First, I don't see any location for the company; did I miss it? Second, I can't get the sound clips to play and have had no such problem with clips from other sites. Anyone else have problems with the clips?

Philo

The clips played fine for me.

Tommy · Post by **Tommy** » Fri Jul 29, 2005 11:56 am

I could not get the sound clips to play either.

Denny · Post by **Denny** » Fri Jul 29, 2005 12:41 pm

PhilO wrote:Just visited the site and have two issues. First, I don't see any location for the company; did I miss it?

yep: Granite Falls, WA
FWIW: Silverstrand lives in Granite Falls, WA
I was unable to find a phone listing for either the person or company.

PhilO wrote:Second, I can't get the sound clips to play and have had no such problem with clips from other sites. Anyone else have problems with the clips?

Worked fine for me. They are QuickTime...

barstool · Post by **barstool** » Fri Jul 29, 2005 12:46 pm

They played for me, but there was so much reverb abd echo sound that the whistle's actucal sound seemed lost.

Your milage may vary.

~Barstool

(finally back from Germany - yaay!)

RonKiley · Post by **RonKiley** » Fri Jul 29, 2005 12:51 pm

The clips played fine for me in windows media player but likewise there was so much electronic "enhancement" that I couldn't tell what the whistle sounded like.

Ron

barbuck · Post by **barbuck** » Fri Jul 29, 2005 1:04 pm

Windows Media Player starts up for me, and it appears visually to be playing the clip, but there's no sound...

Wanderer · Post by **Wanderer** » Fri Jul 29, 2005 1:30 pm

worked for me. Heavy compression and lots of enhancement. The Kesh on the Brass whistle page sounded a little squeaky on high D, but I don't know if that's clipping due to the compression or not.

Daniel_Bingamon · Post by **Daniel_Bingamon** » Fri Jul 29, 2005 4:05 pm

I just heard about his site on the whistlemakers list. I hope I didn't list it prematurely.

I have Quicktime and it seems to play fine that way.

I think he should have more identification information, the site is very vague on identifying the whistle maker. I know that many whistle players do consider the personality of whistle maker to some extent when buying instruments.

brewerpaul · Post by **brewerpaul** » Fri Jul 29, 2005 6:36 pm

Daniel_Bingamon wrote: I know that many whistle players do consider the personality of whistle maker to some extent when buying instruments.

Uh oh, Dan..... you and I are in big trouble!

Daniel_Bingamon · Post by **Daniel_Bingamon** » Sat Jul 30, 2005 7:41 pm

Is that like 'character witnesses' are real characters.

Unseen122 · Post by **Unseen122** » Sun Jul 31, 2005 12:12 pm

I like the sound of the aluminum.