which whistles have the purest sound?

The Weekenders · Post by **The Weekenders** » Fri Jul 12, 2002 12:40 pm

Hey Ysgwd that's a great point. The combination of fundamentals plus harmonics is what gives character and a pure fundamental is like distilled water.

Now what i wonder is if OBriain would alter the old Feadogs I own, rather than buy a new one... You guys are really making me feel like I am missing something here and SteveP is about to get some eurobusiness.

Gary · Post by **Gary** » Fri Jul 12, 2002 12:56 pm

The Weekenders,

The O'Brian mod is basically the guitar pick blade transplant / filling the cavity with putty or 'sticky-tack' trick. If you're a tweaker(?!) you could make one yourself. I did this to my Mk III Feadog and it's now my primary tooter.

Using a PC oscilloscope reveales the tone secret. On mine, the bottom half of the wave is pure fundamental and the top half is pure second harmonic. Very sweet! I have a Generation C modded this way and it works well, too.

Just my 0.02 megs,
Gary

The Weekenders · Post by **The Weekenders** » Fri Jul 12, 2002 1:09 pm

Thanks Gar. I wish somebody would take some digital photos of the step-by-step because Peter Laban also mentions narrowing the windway and I am confused if thats horizontal or vertical in nature. I get the filling in part from the main website.
I am ready to try with a little better description.

Also, I bet you could demystify CHIFF as other partials in a certain combo...

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ysgwd · Post by **ysgwd** » Fri Jul 12, 2002 1:45 pm

The Weekenders,
Thanks!
Gary and The Weekenders,
We take whistle obession to a new level. I used to have a nice simple oscilloscope on my mac and now I'm going surfing for one for my pc.
Lisa

The Weekenders · Post by **The Weekenders** » Fri Jul 12, 2002 2:03 pm

Who you callin obsessed? MOI???

You bet!!!!

"I hate 'working' it takes away from my valuable whistling time."

gemm84 · Post by **gemm84** » Fri Jul 12, 2002 2:45 pm

That's the tweak I used for my feadog--guitar pick and putty. Now it's my favorite and the tone has absolutely no chiff. You can't pry my feadog out of my hands.

avanutria · Post by **avanutria** » Fri Jul 12, 2002 3:07 pm

I bet you weren't holding it when you typed that, though.

Gary · Post by **Gary** » Fri Jul 12, 2002 3:25 pm

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Who you callin obsessed? MOI???

You bet!!!!

"I hate 'working' it takes away from my valuable whistling time."

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That's the tweak I used for my feadog--guitar pick and putty. Now it's my favorite and the tone has absolutely no chiff. You can't pry my feadog out of my hands.
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Gemm, founder of the International House of Pudding.
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I bet you weren't holding it when you typed that, though.

Imagine a visitor on the net, reading this stuff! We sound like a bunch of loons! LOL! I love you people!

Gary - 'You can always tell a whistler but, you can't tell him much!'

Brian Lee · Post by **Brian Lee** » Fri Jul 12, 2002 5:20 pm

On 2002-07-12 11:21, tkelly wrote:
Hi Brian -- I was wondering which Improved you had, brass or nickel. My brass whistles sound very different from the nickel one I have, so I was wnodering which Improved had the pure tone (if there is, as I suspect, a difference).

TIA,
Tery

Hi Tery,

I've got the Brass Feadóg with green mouthpiece, but my next favorite whistle is a Nickle Oak. I like Nickel Generations, but can't stand the brass varieties. Paddy M. makes them sound heavenly though.

If you send me an email, I can fire off a sound file of the improved for you to hear. Just click the mail link at the bottom of my profile.

Bri~

Gary · Post by **Gary** » Fri Jul 12, 2002 6:39 pm

Here's a link to an mp3 of the O'Brian type mod I did to my Feadog Mk.III.

It's the solo portion from my song "In The Shadow Of Your Wings" (C) inspired by Psalm 63:6-7

http://home.earthlink.net/~mould/Shadow.mp3

Gary

Chuck_Clark · Post by **Chuck_Clark** » Fri Jul 12, 2002 7:33 pm

I may have read too fast, but no one has mentioned what I think is the purest tone - as close to crystal clear as makes no difference. Not only that, but it has then easiest second octave response I can imagine.

I refer, of course, to the Silkstone PVC whistle. It's also one of the prettiest.

tkelly · Post by **tkelly** » Fri Jul 12, 2002 10:03 pm

Well, I just spend some "quality time" on Clips & Snips -- that really is a great resource. My ear was most pleased with the Rose, which of course I can't afford. I think the Silkstone alloy was next, then the Burkes -- I kept vacillating between the aluminum and brass. Enough of that kind of listening for today! Now I'll go play my Hoover.

Tery

Edited bc it sounds as if I like my Hoover less than the whistles I was listening to tonight. Not true! It's a beautiful-sounding whistle and the low air requirements work for me.

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gemm84 · Post by **gemm84** » Sat Jul 13, 2002 8:54 am

No, I wasn't holding my feadog when I typed that, but it was sitting there, right in front of the keyboard! I'm such a dork.

blackhawk · Post by **blackhawk** » Sat Jul 13, 2002 9:04 am

On 2002-07-12 14:40, The Weekenders wrote:
Now what i wonder is if OBriain would alter the old Feadogs I own, rather than buy a new one... You guys are really making me feel like I am missing something here and SteveP is about to get some eurobusiness.

You won't be sorry. The O'Briain Feadog is my favorite whistle. And I'm the guy who bought Loren's bird's eye maple Thin Weasel.

avanutria · Post by **avanutria** » Sat Jul 13, 2002 9:12 am

On 2002-07-13 10:54, gemm84 wrote:
No, I wasn't holding my feadog when I typed that, but it was sitting there, right in front of the keyboard! I'm such a dork.

Nah, you've just got a security whistle.