Low-D auditions...Looking for a whistle

Doc Jones · Post by **Doc Jones** » Sat Aug 31, 2002 9:29 am

Hi all,

I am auditioning low Ds. I currently have a Copeland and a Reyburn. I like both very much, though they're really different.

I'd like to try a few others before going through the final bonding.

If anyone has one they'd like to part with let me know by email.

Thanks,

Doc

Doc Jones · Post by **Doc Jones** » Sat Aug 31, 2002 9:33 am

Oh incidently,

I also have a low-d laughing whistle available. It's a wonderful thing...really sweet and very quiet and takes very little air.

It would be great for one of you apartment-dwellers or someone who wanted to try a low-d but didn't want to shell out a lot of dough. Shoot me an imail if interested.

Doc

Doc Jones · Post by **Doc Jones** » Sat Aug 31, 2002 9:36 am

Does anyone make a wooden low-D?

If so, can anyone give opinoins?

Can anyone spell opinions?

Doc

jim stone · Post by **jim stone** » Sat Aug 31, 2002 9:41 am

Suggest you bond to the Copeland.
I don't think it gets better than that.

Loren · Post by **Loren** » Sat Aug 31, 2002 9:44 am

Geeze dude, I'm going to have to start charging you a consultation fee

Buy yourself a Grinter (Wood), and an Overton - between those two and the Copeland, you're not going to find anything better, and each of those are different from one another. I'd also suggest trying an O'Riordan or Swayne, but you're not going to find either of those so....

Loren

jim stone · Post by **jim stone** » Sat Aug 31, 2002 9:47 am

How loud is the Grinter?
(See how long my conservativism
about acquiring new whistles lasts?)

Loren · Post by **Loren** » Sat Aug 31, 2002 9:50 am

Not loud enough for street corner playing Jim

Besides, a Grinter would be way to Fragile for your uses and lifestyle.

Loren

Pan · Post by **Pan** » Sat Aug 31, 2002 10:28 am

Again I´m on the same path as you Doc!

I only have my Copeland low D (good start yes?) and want to try some more for variation. I´m primarly thinking on a big hole Overton.

Later on I will add Low G and A as well, and when I have found some LowD,G and A, I will add up with flats of them all because I often use my guitars tuned a half step down.

Oh how I long for my Abell and rose soprano D to arrive, nothing wrong with my Copeland Sterling D but I believe that for high whistles the material should be wood for me.

/Pan

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TonyHiggins · Post by **TonyHiggins** » Sat Aug 31, 2002 11:20 am

I'm dying of curiosity about the sound of a Grinter wood low d. If someone posted a sound clip, that would be fabulous.
Tony

PhilO · Post by **PhilO** » Sat Aug 31, 2002 1:53 pm

I think Loren summed it up best, but I felt like posting. Bond to your Copeland; I find it reverberatingly hot and yet easy to play. The Overton, which is very good, I don't like quite as much. The O'Riordan, which I also love, is probably impossible to get anymore. Now I do have a Grinter Low F in red lancewood which is fantastic and if the Low D is anything like it, that would be a wonderful Low D. I also have Grinters in high D and Bflat (also lancewood)and they are consistently wonderful. However, the metals are pretty much maintenance-free and durable. I also have an anodized Kerry Low D which is surprisingly good and an old Howard Low D that has good sound but is a bit tricky with regard to covering the big holes.

Bottom line: If you've already got a Copeland Low D, bond, bond, bond...

Philo

Doc Jones · Post by **Doc Jones** » Sat Aug 31, 2002 6:07 pm

Hey I got my very own "Geeze Dude" reply from Loren. Now I feel like a full-fledged whistle board guy!

As to the consulting fee, tell you what Loren if you ever have a veterinary question shoot me an email.
It's nice to have folks with your depth of experience on the board. Even if you are a little cranky sometimes.

Is there any difference between the Overtons and the Kerry Pros?

Doc

blackhawk · Post by **blackhawk** » Sat Aug 31, 2002 6:18 pm

Are you in the market for an Overton, Doc? I just picked one up last week, and it sounds great, but I have bonded with the Burke I picked up in a trade a while back (can't remember where...),

so I know I'll never spend much time with it.

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Loren · Post by **Loren** » Sat Aug 31, 2002 6:23 pm

<<Hey I got my very own "Geeze Dude" reply from Loren. Now I feel like a full-fledged whistle board guy!

>>

Nah, you're not full fledged until we've really gotten into it about something. Don't worry, bound to happen eventually.....what with me being so cranky and all

<<As to the consulting fee, tell you what Loren if you ever have a veterinary question shoot me an email.>>

Actually, I have one now and I'll write you off-board about it shortly. My poor German Shepherd isn't feeling well

<<It's nice to have folks with your depth of experience on the board. Even if you are a little cranky sometimes.

>>

Sometimes? Where have you been? I'm cranky MOST of the time. Hmph.

<<Is there any difference between the Overtons and the Kerry Pros?>>

Yes.

By the way, I warn you now: Having a great Low D or three will eventually convince you that you have to have a nice flute. Problem is the really good flutes aren't so easy to come by, so enjoy the almost instant gratification while you can, one day the real torture will begin....

Loren

Doc Jones · Post by **Doc Jones** » Sat Aug 31, 2002 6:35 pm

By the way, I warn you now: Having a great Low D or three will eventually convince you that you have to have a nice flute. Problem is the really good flutes aren't so easy to come by, so enjoy the almost instant gratification while you can, one day the real torture will begin....

I live in fear of that day.

Doc

Loren · Post by **Loren** » Sat Aug 31, 2002 7:18 pm

Note to self: Using the certain angular/arrow shaped bracketing devices when trying to quote someone doesn't work if you don't know what you're doing with HTML....

Too lazy to fix it, I'm sure you got my drift.

Loren