From: Susan Lynn Peterson <supeters@ix.netcom.com>

Thanks for your site. I just started playing penny whistle about four

months ago, and have gotten a lot of help from your articles and links.

I recently purchased a Clarke Sweetone. I loved the feel of the

mouthpiece, but the instrument I got had a nasal-sounding buzz to the

tone, especially in the lower octave. I checked to see if it had any

loose plastic or metal inside-- it didn't. So I decided to tinker. I

took a nail file (fine side), and beveled the bottom of the cutting edge

of the fipple hole just a little (three or four stroke, max). To my

amazement, it worked. The buzz is gone. The tone is a bit more breathy

now, a little closer to my Clarke original, but not a full. (And yes I

just purchased my third whistle in four months. All these years of

avoiding computer viruses on the 'Net, and I go an contract WAD, probably

from your site.)

Thanks again.

Sue