What brand of whistle is this?

emtor · Post by **emtor** » Fri Feb 01, 2008 9:08 am

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=av2bKHgY ... KHgYurU</a>

-Looks like a Feadóg but I'm not sure . . . any ideas?

Steamwalker · Post by **Steamwalker** » Fri Feb 01, 2008 9:12 am

Looks like a Vargas whistle.

emtor · Post by **emtor** » Fri Feb 01, 2008 10:22 am

I'm very sure I haven't made any whistle for Breda Smyth which is the performer in the video, although is both looks and sounds like one of mine.
The fipple looks very glossy, and it also appears to be of the current Feadóg-design, but to my knowledge these fipples come in green,-not black.
-Are the current fipples also available in black too?

preacher · Post by **preacher** » Fri Feb 01, 2008 12:41 pm

This looks a bit like a brass Humphrey I have. Mine is in B but the fipple looks pretty close. Anyone else with a Humphrey out there?

Steamwalker · Post by **Steamwalker** » Fri Feb 01, 2008 1:10 pm

Humphrey would've been my second guess, or Reyburn or Dixon trad but the mouthpiece looks different than those. It really looks like a Clare whistle, although I haven't seen a brass one with the black mouthpiece.

Boody · Post by **Boody** » Fri Feb 01, 2008 1:18 pm

emtor wrote: The fipple looks very glossy, and it also appears to be of the current Feadóg-design, but to my knowledge these fipples come in green,-not black.
-Are the current fipples also available in black too?

I looked at the Feadog website, and it appears that they are selling feadogs in a couple of tube colors, and it looks like the fipple on the black one and maybe some of the others is black.
Heres a picture of the black one
http://www.muzmag.ru/images/wfdgnickel.jpg
so it could be the fipple of a black one on a different tube.

Steamwalker · Post by **Steamwalker** » Fri Feb 01, 2008 1:24 pm

I'll have to look at the mouthpiece in the video again but Generation, Feadog and Clare all make black mouthpieces, so the whistle in the video could be a frankenstein whistle.

pipersgrip · Post by **pipersgrip** » Fri Feb 01, 2008 5:41 pm

Oak? great playing

Mitch · Post by **Mitch** » Fri Feb 01, 2008 6:26 pm

Looks like the Feadog head that comes with the nickel body - standard and "Pro".

The body is brass - probably also feadog - but could be anything. The clarity of the G indicates that the head is either worked-on, or is a particularly good "off-the-shelf" head.

Brilliant playing, of course.

boomerang · Post by **boomerang** » Fri Feb 01, 2008 6:46 pm

Good is not the word.
She is awesome,
WOW
David

emtor · Post by **emtor** » Fri Feb 01, 2008 6:50 pm

What strikes me the most is the glossy appearance of the fipple. I only have experience with the green Feadòg fipples, and they're not this glossy.

Mitch · Post by **Mitch** » Fri Feb 01, 2008 7:04 pm

emtor wrote:What strikes me the most is the glossy appearance of the fipple. I only have experience with the green Feadòg fipples, and they're not this glossy.

So ... how glossy are yours?

Aanvil · Post by **Aanvil** » Fri Feb 01, 2008 8:03 pm

Mitch wrote:
emtor wrote:What strikes me the most is the glossy appearance of the fipple. I only have experience with the green Feadòg fipples, and they're not this glossy.
So ... how glossy are yours?

Personally I try to get my fipple glossed as often as possible.

pao · Post by **pao** » Fri Feb 01, 2008 8:55 pm

Breda Smyth, on the video, is using a natural brass <a href="http://photos.friendster.com/photos/80/ ... "><b>ACORN whistle</b></a> that is semi tarnished and the label sticker removed.
Acorns have the same mouthpiece used in oaks so if you see that familiar gloss, that would be it.

Steamwalker · Post by **Steamwalker** » Fri Feb 01, 2008 8:56 pm

I was more attracted to the glossiness of her pants.

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she's using an acorn whistle