Can anyone ID this whistle or it’s maker?
This is Blackbeer’s mystery whistle. His description:
I`ve had this whistle for a couple of years now, it is fully tunable, kinda windy in a good sence, pretty heavy being made out of nickel or crome plated brass, but I could be wrong about that. Interesting design and realy a joy to play and listen to.
Thanks,
–James
Over the past few minutes, I have stared and stared at this whistle. Finally, it hit me!!! (or maybe that was my brother throwing a tennis ball at me). Anywho, It is my professional opinion that I am unable to identify this whistle. 
Interesting how those sides protrude–kind of like wings. I wonder if that focuses the sound somehow. Maybe it would relieve some of the ear damage we get from playing whistle.
Anyhow, my guess is–homemade. Or a whistlemaker who was experimenting with the “wings” and decided to drop the idea.
I think its a windshield.
I have one of those. Only mine has a bell, like a clarinet. (The bell is fake; there’s an open tonehole that defines the accoustic length.) Otherwise, mine is exactly like that one.
I think the wings are just a result of the novel windway design. To make the windway, they’ve flattened a piece of tubing and soldered it onto the top of the beak. The wings are needed to create the sides of the voicing window, since the windway is more to the outside of the circumference than would otherwise be usual.
But I haven’t a clue who made it or where it came from.
Best wishes,
Jerry
Wonder what it sounds like?
How does it sound Jerry?
Mine has a strong, clear lower register, fairly reedy with a softer, breathier upper register (not very good balance between registers).
An odd feature of the design is that it has a curved soundblade (just the cutoff edge of the tube), with a flat windway, so the windway and soundblade don’t match )|.
Best wishes,
Jerry
Well thats a trip Jerry. I realy like playing the thing. Mine seems to have a pretty good balance between the octaves. It is very senative to where the tuning slide is placed. Didn`t Dale have something like this in his vault? Anyway, neet whistle and a real ebay treasure 
Take care
Tom
Hi, Tom.
Yeah. I figured yours was a better example of that kind of whistle. I’m not inclined to play this one because the octaves are so mismatched. The tuning slide’s stuck on this one. Maybe if I worked on it and got it free again, I could get it to play better.
Best wishes,
Jerry
If anyone who has one of these wants to submit a recording of it, I’ll be glad to host it for you.
–James
Hey Tom! What would you compare this whistle to as far as tone?
I was going to say it was much like a Clarke C but much richer. Almost a flute like caracter on the low end fuller Clarke C on the upper end. If I have enough scotch left and I can find a mic I will try and get something up.
Take care
Tom
I didn’t do it.
That type of cover over the fipple does give a really nice sound.
Hello
I have seen similar sides on organ pipes, it flattens the pitch. It is used reugulary for some types of voicing and intonation, but I don’t recall how and on what types of registers (can perhaps ask a collegue the next week).
PS how hot water can you use to get the head of a Generation?
/Anders
All the way boiling, but be careful not to scald yourself, and don’t let the plastic touch the sides or bottom of the pot.
You probably won’t be able to remove the mouthpiece of key of C or F Generations by this method without damaging them, but the other four keys of Generation whistles come off fine.
Best wishes,
Jerry
I have a question: Do you mean that the air stream meets the top of the radius of the blade?
Thanks,
Yes, It does flatten the pitch, so you must compensate by making the instrument shorter.
On mine if you look through the windway you can see the top of the circumfrance of the blade,(the top of the tube) is centered in the windway. So there is perhaps a quarter of an inch of blade that archs through the windway. I don`t know if that is any clearer or not.
Take care
Tom
Yup! Just what I wanted to know.
Thanks,