anyone else here have a carbony whistle of any key? i absolutely love mine. in my opinion it is a very serious competitor to the burke line. if for no other reason than the fact that it’s all but indestructable. sure its not as loud, but its tuneable and super light. plus it takes almost no air, making the register changes effortless. its the first whistle ive ever gotten three full octaves out of. what do you all think?
Three - full - octaves… I am in awe. That would take you to the upper-most note of a piano - or one note beyond, depending on how one is calculating… I did not know of any other instrument extant (except select pipe organs), that could create f_undamental_ pitches that high.
Best.
Byll
Do you have a source of more information?
TIA
A high D whistle with 3 octave range? Would you even be able hear the top notes?
I thought three full octaves on a high D was against the Geneva Convention… 
Best wishes.
Steve
too much third octave causes brain damage, doesn’t it?
Really … If you’re going to experiment with the 3rd register of a high D, do so away from other people, and please wear hearing protection. That’s what I think. 
Any decent D whistle is capable of playing up to 3rd register G - including Generation, Dixon Trad, Mellow Dog. It’s far more a matter of technique than of the whistle. The only piece I’ve encountered that requires that range is the orchestral suite Pied Piper Fantasy by John Corigliano.
I played an early model of the Carbony high D, and found it had a sound and feel very much like a Clarke Meg or Sweetone. But it’s possible the design and voicing has changed since then. I’ve also had some contact with Rob Gandara of Carbony, and he seems like a very decent guy with a particular vision for his whistles and flutes.
As with all things, let your taste, experience, and pocketbook be your guide.
P.S. Shouldn’t it be derflaute(n)meister or derflötenmeister? 
haha, yes 3 registers really should be against the ganeva convention. my cats hate me now. i dont plan on doing it again. lol. and yeah, derflötenmeister is more correct isnt it.( my german isnt quite up to snuff. 
Is the Carbony whistle at all tunable?
The website and contact info is here.
http://www.carbony.com/Products.htm
Old thread this was said
https://forums.chiffandfipple.com/t/how-to-make-a-thread-bookmark/61/1
Thanks
is it thick walled or thin
I have never seen one but…
http://www.carbony.com/Products.htm
The thin wall process of our tapered whistle design gives incredible response of the lower octave.
What that means for carbon fiber I don’t know. Thicker than metal, thinner than plastic? I have never seen one.
I’d say it seems thinner than rolled sheet or metal tubing, though I didn’t actually measure it. And very lightweight, almost disconcertingly at first.
Yes, it appears that the design has changed. I played one of the early version as well, only a couple years back, and it had the Copeland designed mouthpiece which is very, very similar to the Sweetone mouthpiece. I liked it. However, I just hopped over to the Carbony site and it appears to have a newly designed mouthpiece, and the price almost doubled. When I was going to buy one of the older designs they were about $75. The new ones are about $155…
My Dixon alloy high D goes well into the 3rd octave - I don’t know how high exactly as husband begged me to stop, and the dogs were packing their suitcases.
I have a carbony high D whistle. Its lovely. The graphite is extremely light - I think the main body of the instrument weighs just a few ounces. Think - a letter for the mail in weight. The mouthpiece is obviously quite a bit heavier.
Speaking of the mouthpiece, I really like it. Mine is a very dark blue rubber material that is very hard.
This whistle plays like a dream. I actually met Rob Gandara here in my town - he lent me a low D whistle he’d made to see if I could even play one. Yes! Just handed one to me to borrow for the weekend. I adored it - but my hands just aren’t made for that reach. The sound was gorgeous.
The thing I like most about my high D carbony whistle is how well it responds in the upper registers. Songs that went above.. say.. high G were my nemesis. I’d get angry at myself and give up, the tone was so bad. Now - all the way up to the next D sounds great. I could go higher, but I haven’t had a need to as of yet. My dog hates me when I’m in that register. 
The low whistle was even easier in the octave jumps. It’d pop right up to the 3rd register without much effort. The low D whistle was also extremely light. Let me tell you - if I’d been able to reach those holes without contortions, I would have dropped the 300 dollars in a moment.
Back to my high D. Rob let me twiddle around on it while he found me a low whistle fingering chart. The whole week while I was playing the low D, I was day dreaming about the high D. It blew my susato and chieftain whistle away - (MY opinion, don’t get mad at me if you disagree!)
Rob really IS a very nice guy (as someone said earlier) and I was very happy with him. Hopefully my little note here helps anyone wavering to make a decision.
And yes, my account is brand new - I made it (I’m a lurker) just to post my thoughts on my Carbony high D whistle.
-sherrie