Wow! A $3 whistle is singing its way to my doorstep. Doc Jones has agreed to share one of his Meg whistles with me. Generous guy! I hear he’s got too many anyway. By the way, I’m just dying to know more about the $300 love of his life.
Wish you all well. Headless Chicken
Hey, I liked my $3 meg more than my Rose. 
[ This Message was edited by: avanutria on 2002-08-09 00:26 ]
On 2002-08-09 00:26, avanutria wrote:
Hey, I liked my $3 meg more than my Rose. >
Oh, watch out now… you like whacking beehives with sticks, too, don’t you? Pouring fresh blood into shark infested waters…
No, but I whacked something else with a stick today…my partner in my swordsmanship class, hehe.
Pouring fresh blood into
shark infested waters, eh?
I like that!
Thank you. I like to think I have a gift for grisly metaphor.
Doc Jones has agreed to share one of his Meg whistles with me
Get $3 ready, - ‘share’ may become a distant word with the first sound of the Meg.
Okay. . .I got $3, plus shipping fee. . .I’ll offer for that Rose!
Sorry, someone else has already claimed it.
Hey Beth finish what you started! Why do you like the Meg better than your Rose???
Lisa
I seem to like metal sound more than wooden (favorite whistles: laughing, hoover, doolin, meg)
less maintanance - I move from dry climates to humid climates and back again, and that will destroy a wooden instrument.
I’ll feel much worse damaging a Rose than a Meg or other inexpensive whistle - and I like to bring them all over
the sound didn’t seem like anything extraordinary to my ear (your mileage may vary) and to me wasn’t the right investment.
I think I’ve discovered that my whistle price cap is around $60 or so - anything more than that and I’ll be hesitant to leave it out / bring it places.
Which means, of course, that I can get MORE whistles for the same amount of money… 
Edit - I still have sound online from the selling, if anyone wants more info on Roses.
http://www.rit.edu/~eeg6662/sound/rosesamples.mp3 (1.2 mb)
[ This Message was edited by: avanutria on 2002-08-09 15:22 ]
On 2002-08-09 11:08, avanutria wrote:
I think I’ve discovered that my whistle price cap is around $60 or so - anything more than that and I’ll be hesitant to leave it out / bring it places.Which means, of course, that I can get MORE whistles for the same amount of money… >
[ This Message was edited by: avanutria on 2002-08-09 15:22 ]
Beth, I just learned the same 60.00 cap lesson!
Lisa
Lark in the Morning has already gone up to $4.00 on the Meg. Kind of steep for a whistle named after the British halfpenny.
Coooooooooooooopelaaaaaaaaaaand!
The Meg is still being sold at Elderly for $2.80.
On 2002-09-24 08:33, Paul Reid wrote:
Coooooooooooooopelaaaaaaaaaaand! >
Hahaha yeah okay you caught me. But that is already taken care of!
On 2002-08-09 01:56, jim stone wrote:
Pouring fresh blood into
shark infested waters, eh?
I like that!
I like one I saw in a British bike magazine:
Poking the devil with a sharp stick, and running away.
On 2002-09-24 13:21, msheldon wrote:
On 2002-08-09 01:56, jim stone wrote:
Pouring fresh blood into
shark infested waters, eh?
I like that!Poking the devil with a sharp stick, and running away.
That reminds me, I haven’t bugged a particular board member, lately…
On 2002-09-24 13:21, msheldon wrote:
On 2002-08-09 01:56, jim stone wrote:
Pouring fresh blood into
shark infested waters, eh?
I like that!I like one I saw in a British bike magazine:
Poking the devil with a sharp stick, and running away.
Or the Terry Pratchett quote:
“Let’s just say that if complete and utter chaos was lightning, he’d be the sort to stand on a hilltop in a thunderstorm wearing wet copper armour and shouting ‘All gods are b*****ds’.”
I hesitate to bring this up because I don’t want to be perceived as a naysayer. That said, here goes.
I purchased 25 Megs for a workshop I’m doing in October. They arrived with cellophane on the mouthpieces. Of course I couldn’t resist opening and trying at least ONE out. It was a good thing it did. The first one I opened was unplayable: very fuzzy tone throughout, required so much overblowing to get to the second octave as to be unusable, and second octave A and B simply weren’t there at all. So I popped the mouthpiece off and swapped it for the one from trusty Sweetone and quickly confirmed that the mouthpiece was the problem. With my Sweetone mouthpiece the Meg played just like my Sweetone.
Long story short, I opened all 25 Megs. 11 were fine, 2 played ALMOST as well as my Sweetone, but 12 out of 25 had varying degrees of the same problem described above. Some were nearly okay, except for the high A and B.
After some pondering, I managed to tweak all of the offending portion of the litter by using a razor blade to thin the blade and improve the angle right at the edge of the blade. I think the problem was that the blade was too blunt and not a quite the right angle. It seemed that too much air was going under the blade and not enough over the blade.
None of the 25 play just as well as my Sweetone. Their tone is just a tad bit fuzzier. And frankly, nearly 50% needing tweaking out of package seems a bit excessive. If I were a brand new whistler and didn’t know how they were supposed to sound, I’d probably never get the hang of the thing and chuck it.
Nevertheless, assuming you get a “good one” or feel comfortable tweaking it, the Meg is still the best deal going.
Whitey
~. . . . . .