WhOA got me!!

Bothrops · Post by **Bothrops** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 2:58 pm

I couldn't resist and I went today to a local shop to buy a brass Feadóg in D and a nickel Generation Bb.
Both sound pretty good, so I guess I was lucky?
Now I can understand why people love Bb whistles

dfernandez77 · Post by **dfernandez77** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 3:13 pm

Bb is a sweet key. Sweetest key for an untweaked Generation.

I've had a Freeman tweaked Gen in Bb for years. Like it a bunch!

I've had a Reyburn Bb (just intonation) for a while. Love it!

I've an Overton Bb in the post from Colin in Germany as I type. I'm about to wet myself with anticipation!

riverman · Post by **riverman** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 8:44 pm

I didn't understand my tweaked Generation Bb for a long time. Now, with counseling, I found that it likes to be played softly, VERY softly. And what a nice sound when it is!

anniemcu · Post by **anniemcu** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 9:37 pm

The first, and most deceptively innocent, stage of WhOA is "Whee!" You are about to pass into the second and far more powerful stage... "What?!? Did I buy that?!?" ... it will pass soon enough into the final, and nearly always chronic stage soon... and you will be assimilated.

brewerpaul · Post by **brewerpaul** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 5:34 am

Yeah, what Annie said... as long as your WHOA is limited to the cheaper whistles, it's a pretty mild illness easily controlled with the occasional purchase of another cheapie whistle. It's when you get into the "hard stuff" aka handmade whistles that it gets serious...
(this, coming from a pusher of the hard stuff

)

Jason Paul · Post by **Jason Paul** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 7:50 am

You call that WhOA? You're just beginning to prime the pump.

Luckily I've got a few I like now. I remember placing one order with The Whistle shop and believe I ended up with 11 whistles. One order. Even that was only about $70-$80 and pales in comparison to what others have given in to.

Fortunately I haven't gotten the high-end bug yet - just an O'Brien C/D set, which was still less than $100.

Jason

riverman · Post by **riverman** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 3:38 pm

anniemcu wrote:The first, and most deceptively innocent, stage of WhOA is "Whee!" You are about to pass into the second and far more powerful stage... "What?!? Did I buy that?!?" ... it will pass soon enough into the final, and nearly always chronic stage soon... and you will be assimilated.

Resistance is futile.

Aanvil · Post by **Aanvil** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 4:46 pm

FlOA is worse.

Bothrops · Post by **Bothrops** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 5:04 pm

Aanvil wrote:FlOA is worse.

I guess you should have a lot of money to suffer FlOA, lol!!

pastorkeith · Post by **pastorkeith** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 6:37 pm

Am I the only one whose spouse is still willing to ask "How many whistles do you have now?" Quickly followed by "How many Hi D's do you really need?"
pastorkeith

Trixle · Post by **Trixle** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 7:26 pm

pastorkeith wrote:Am I the only one whose spouse is still willing to ask "How many whistles do you have now?" Quickly followed by "How many Hi D's do you really need?"
pastorkeith

Lol, i kid you not, my wife asked me that yesterday. I was like "but they're all cheapies." She's thinking that there needs to be a forum/support group of wives of whistlers with WHoa.

Steamwalker · Post by **Steamwalker** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 7:36 pm

It only took a few months for me to get the full-blown WhOA disorder and I haven't so far regretted it. I have 6 high end ones on order and currently in the planning stages on another half dozen. It all starts with the cheapies (like Pokemon, gotta catch 'em all!). Gotta find something to do when you are single without any kids.

Bothrops · Post by **Bothrops** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 7:41 pm

It's good to see I'm not alone, LOL!
Now I'm working on getting some money to buy some whistles in other keys from Susato.. I want a high C a high G and still not decided in a high Eb or high F...

medit8b1 · Post by **medit8b1** » Fri Oct 05, 2007 7:51 am

brewerpaul wrote:Yeah, what Annie said... as long as your WHOA is limited to the cheaper whistles, it's a pretty mild illness easily controlled with the occasional purchase of another cheapie whistle. It's when you get into the "hard stuff" aka handmade whistles that it gets serious...
(this, coming from a pusher of the hard stuff )

Hah! Try being only into low whistles, even the "cheap" ones aren't that cheap!

Tucson Whistler · Post by **Tucson Whistler** » Fri Oct 05, 2007 8:08 am

Hey Bothrops, there are 5 Susatos that are ending in 6 hours on eBay. They seem like a good price for now. This is the link to the C

http://cgi.ebay.com/Susato-C-pennywhist ... dZViewItem

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