Convince me...

[FascinatedWanderer]

Someone convince me not to buy a Bleazey high D in boxwood. I am a beginner. The Dixon Trad is still more whistle than I can handle. The Bleazey will be hundreds of times better than me. I have no need for it now, or even when I improve really....

On the other hand, it's pretty and I want one.

[piperjoe]

On the other hand, it's pretty and you want one!

JD

[Steve Bliven]

What else would you do with the money - feed the kids?

Best wishes.

Steve

[crookedtune]

It would bleaze us all very much to see you have it.

[janmarie]

IMHO,to have an instrument that you love and can grow into makes for a remarkable musical love affair. You play better and enjoy the process so much more! Also i believe boxwood produces an fantastic tone. Was i suppose to say something to convince to not to get the boxwood whistle? oops, my bad
janmarie

[DrPhill]

I cant comment on the high D Bleazey, but I do have a low D made from damson wood. I will assume that they share characteristics, and hope that this post is helpful. But do bear in mind that I only have the one Bleazey whistle, and it (or indeed I) may be atypical......

Reasons to buy:

• * Beautiful tone.
  * Beautiful wood.
  * Excellent craftsmanship.
  * Strong low notes (including low D).
  * Sweet high notes.
  * Does not need high breath pressure or flow.

Reasons not to buy:

• * Wood requires caring for. Check out the care required and make sure you are prepared to do this.
  * The second Cawk on mine may be iffy with the suggested oxoxxo.
  * Small holes make half-holing harder.
  * Breath requirements are finnicky. I find a small window between the second and third harmonics of the D,E, and F notes. I assume this is to do with the compromises needed to give the top and bottom responses meantioned in the 'reasons for' section. I need to keep practising on the Bleazey continuously. I dont mind this - monogamy is supposed to be good for whistlers (and I have that information from two completely different contexts ). It did and does require perseverance. If I spend too much time with an easier whistle I go backwards with the Bleazey. I do not regret being owned by a Bleazey whistle, but their were times when I almost did.
  * I ought to send it back for re-voicing - but that means being parted from it. And what if re-voicing changes all the things I like about it?

Edit: a spelling mistake.

[Steve Pribyl]

It would bleaze us all very much to see you have it.

...especially Bleazey!

Steve
www.upreeds.com

[DrPhill]

........... I find a small window between the second and third harmonics of the D,E, and F notes.

I meant first and second harmonics.

[Denny]

well it wasn't G, A & B

[FascinatedWanderer]

Congratulations, you have all spectacularly failed in the task I set you. Can't you guys even follow simple instructions? I said convince me not to get it.

[mutepointe]

Make someone else buy it for you.

[Mick Down Under]

I'm not even gonna try and talk you out of something that I think you should do...Tha't be plain nuts!


Mick

[jkrazy52]

Convince you "not" to buy it? Okay ... I bought a Bleazey ( don't recall the wood) and hated it! Didn't like the tone -- nothing about the whistle was pleasing to my ear with my playing. I eventually gave it away .... to a fellow who loves it.

[cavefish]

Have you thought of a Swayne in boxwood they are nice - or a blackwood sweatheart

[BigDavy]

Well I can think of one reason not to buy the boxwood whistle - the £40 surcharge on the price for boxwood.

Personally I have 2 Bleazey D whistles, in yew and cocobolo. Given the number of people that have tried to buy my cocobolo whistle, I think that the mopani whistle (being closer to cocobolo in structure) would be better than the boxwood, and £40 cheaper.

David