Your first?

IDAwHOa · Post by **IDAwHOa** » Tue Nov 15, 2005 5:45 am

My first whistle was a non-tunable Overton Low D. I don't have that particular one, but I now have a tunable version of it, and just a few others as well.

Feadin · Post by **Feadin** » Tue Nov 15, 2005 6:26 am

The first whistle I played was a nickel Generation D, but I bought a Feadog Pro shortly after that..... then I got a Meg D, a Dixon High D and a NT Water Weasel High D, wich is the whistle I play more often.
I used to like the sound of my Feadog's, but now that I have the other whistles for comparison, I found that I like better a purer sound... the WW has not a really pure sound, but it's "purer" than the Feadog..... and I'm buying a Burke soon anyway

WilliamC · Post by **WilliamC** » Tue Nov 15, 2005 7:45 am

A Gen C I bought in Berea, Ky. (Bria, Kintuckuh, Cranberry?) in the late 80's. This was one of the good Gens, with a beautiful, chiffy tone. I still play it. Other Gens I've bought since haven't been so nice.

Celtic983 · Post by **Celtic983** » Tue Nov 15, 2005 7:54 am

I got my first whistle when I was 8 on a trip to Mount Vernon. I believe it was a Cooperman.

dwinterfield · Post by **dwinterfield** » Tue Nov 15, 2005 8:26 am

First whistle was a joke Christmas gift a few years ago - a "D" Irish Whistle, common is gift shops. Brass body, green mouthpiece. (If anyone knows who makes these I'd love to know.)

The interior edge of the mouthpiece had cracks from the manufacturing process. Later I put a Mack white cap on the brass body and it was pretty good. It now resides in a truck for unexpected chances to practise.

Next whistle (less than a week) was a Sweetone D.

Today I mostly play Burke D - Brass, session.

RonKiley · Post by **RonKiley** » Tue Nov 15, 2005 8:42 am

A Feadan. Bought it in Newport, RI. Nice whistle . Too bad that it isn't made anymore.

Ron

AngeloMeola · Post by **AngeloMeola** » Tue Nov 15, 2005 11:10 am

My first whistle was an Oak I got over 20 years ago. I still have it and play it occasionally. I didn't get a second whistle for about 15 years. Now I play a Sindt most of the time and Hoover white cap the rest.
Angelo

peeplj · Post by **peeplj** » Tue Nov 15, 2005 11:16 am

My first whistle was a Clarke C that was bought in Old Washington, Arkansas, when I was in ninth grade, many many moons ago--say about 1979 or so.

I didn't play Irish trad tunes on it--well, actually I did, but I didn't know I did, I had picked up the tune "Rakes of Mallow" from somewhere and played it over and over and over, with variations this way and that way--all the wrong way, I suspect.

I haven't laid eyes on that whistle for maybe four years, but I think it still exists somewhere, packed away in a box in corner somewhere, probably.

--James

John F. · Post by **John F.** » Tue Nov 15, 2005 11:32 am

Well, I'm new to the whistle, but I have a Clarke "Celtic" and a Feadog-both in D. However, I recently made my own whistle, which blows the other two out of the water-I've since given the other two to my kids to get them started!

fearfaoin · Post by **fearfaoin** » Tue Nov 15, 2005 12:18 pm

John F. wrote:Well, I'm new to the whistle, but I have a Clarke "Celtic"

Hey, that was my first whistle, too! I am surprised how much they
can cost when they've been played by minor celebrities:

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

burnsbyrne · Post by **burnsbyrne** » Tue Nov 15, 2005 1:35 pm

My first was an Oak D. It was given to me by someone who never played it, about 25 years ago. I still have the tube. The head disintegrated a year or so ago. I never did like that whistle anyway.

Henke · Post by **Henke** » Tue Nov 15, 2005 2:48 pm

It all started with a brass Generation D and a Clarke original C. I think it was some 5 or 6 years ago or so. Sometimes I have a hard time keeping track of time, even if it's just a few years.
I still keep both. Not playing them very much though. The only whistles I pick up these days are my Syns.

Celtic983 · Post by **Celtic983** » Tue Nov 15, 2005 3:56 pm

This is a really great thread and has caused me to reminisce a bit today. As mentioned earlier, I got my first whistle when I was Eight. I never really played it untill I was in high school. My sophmore year there was a talent show at my school. One of my friends played my whistle, another my bodhran, and my theater teacher played guitar. I sang and played hammered dulcimer. Arghh Talk about scary!! Playing Celtic music in back woods East Texas in front of 200 of your peers as well as trying to sing and play HD. I sang the song about 2 octaves lower than I normally would have

Well sorry to rant on but just been thinking about it all day. Thanks for the thread

straycat82 · Post by **straycat82** » Tue Nov 15, 2005 4:08 pm

I started on a Clarke Original D about....... five years ago..... I think

. I still occasionally enjoy the sound that comes from the wooden fipple but it has many a dent and the signature Clarke diamonds have long since worn off. It seems to get breathier and breathier every time I play it. That whistle has been in several states and spent many hours in the Phoenix heat since it was my car whistle for a long time. Since then a Clarke meg and a Feadog have replaced it as the car whistle. Nowadays it's collecting dust somewhere on my computer desk. Since I now have a Burke DAN, I don't see the oul' Clarke getting much play time in the future.
(what I want to know is: Why is there not a tin whistling smiley emotocon?)

Tou-Che · Post by **Tou-Che** » Tue Nov 15, 2005 4:13 pm

tony dixon D non tunable. i acutually bought it as a souvenir when i went to ireland (shanna quay in adare)