Whistles on ebay - what's that green one?

avanutria · Post by **avanutria** » Thu Aug 12, 2004 12:38 pm

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 3740865990

bozemanhc · Post by **bozemanhc** » Thu Aug 12, 2004 1:11 pm

Beth, the green one looks like a flute to me, but I don't know what brand.

Bloomfield · Post by **Bloomfield** » Thu Aug 12, 2004 1:41 pm

bozemanhc wrote:Beth, the green one looks like a flute to me, but I don't know what brand.

I too think that it looks like a transverse embochure hole with lip plate. A piccolo, then.

avanutria · Post by **avanutria** » Thu Aug 12, 2004 1:50 pm

Aha, I see - he called it a whistle in the title but did say flute later on.

How about the silver whistle, anyone heard of "James Galway brand"?

Steven · Post by **Steven** » Fri Aug 13, 2004 8:51 am

Yes, I have a James Galway whistle. My father randomly sent it to me one day, although I have no idea where he found it. It's a perfectly fine whistle, but I haven't played it much. It doesn't compete with my Oak or my Alba Q1 (or my flute or my concertina, both of which get played more than any of my whistles). I would, however, put it in the good end of the spectrum of cheapie whistles.

Steven

Feadan · Post by **Feadan** » Sat Aug 14, 2004 7:35 am

Bloomfield wrote:
bozemanhc wrote:Beth, the green one looks like a flute to me, but I don't know what brand.
I too think that it looks like a transverse embochure hole with lip plate. A piccolo, then.

The green one is pretty much a musical toy. It is trying to be a transverse recorder. That black part at the top is a whistle-type mouthpiece. I have a yellow one I bought in the UK many years ago. It uses recorder fingering for the one octave it can produce. Forget trying to overblow into the second. Produces rubbish.

Cheers,
David

Chuck_Clark · Post by **Chuck_Clark** » Sat Aug 14, 2004 11:22 am

Looks like it died for lack of bids. Hardly surprising, I suppose, though I'd have thought someone might pay that much for the two recorders.

glauber · Post by **glauber** » Sat Aug 14, 2004 11:25 am

I'm more surprised that nobody bought the 2 Skip Healy fifes for $500. I haven't heard of a high priced flute on eBay for a while now. Maybe we're in an eBay low.