Chris Abell A whistle

Whistle
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNFe_1ohBDM&feature=channel_page

Here’s a new Chris Abell A whistle, blackwood and silver. Lovely
whistles.

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Nice clip! Who’s the guy playing it? :smiley:

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My evil twin!

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFG5fG-y2S0&feature=channel_page

Here’s a Chris Abell C whistle.

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And here’s my new Abell high D (Madagascar Rosewood):

http://www.knology.net/~drcannon/damask_rose_abell.mp3

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Lovely. What’s the tune?

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The Damask Rose, I presume. :slight_smile: Listed here:

http://www.mudcat.org/olson/viewpage.cfm?theurl=BM0.ABC

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That Abell A sounds amazing, I really like it! The C sounds great too. I’ll tack that A on the long term to-get list. :thumbsup:

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I’d just found the tune “The Damask Rose” while playing through some tunes on JC Tunefinder and was sightreading it on the recording (taking a bit of liberty in a couple spots :slight_smile: ):

http://trillian.mit.edu/~jc/cgi/abc/tuneget?F=GIF&U=/~jc/music/abc/mirror/BruceOlson/BM0.ABC&X=98&T=B098THEDAMASKROSEOROMNIAVINCITAMOR

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Thanks. The head for the A whistle fits a Bb tube too,
and the head for the C whistle fits a D tube.

I haven’t played all the whistles out there,
but these are among the best I’ve played, IMO.
The Copelands are rivals but are an entirely
different sort of whistle, that’s for sure.

Chris Abell is a lovely fellow, by the way.
He lately put thumb holes on the old C/D set—
for free.

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Agreed Jim with respect to both Chris and his whistles. I have a lovely A/Bflat set in the more typical sterling and african blackwood and a C/D set in sterling and black delrin. They’re totally different from each other and I love them both! (The delrins are “purer” or have less air in the tone, and I wouldn’t necessarily attribute that quality to materials - the delrin set was made much later and likely the voicing is just different.)

Philo

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8W0BuHIcQ0

Here’s an Abell Bb (I have two tubes, A and Bb, for
one whistle head) . Sorry about the shadows.

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I used to be a huge fan of Abell’s. I now find them a bit weak in the low end. My blackwood D sounds breathy to me now and the delrin D clogs too easily. I’m sure in a few years I’ll come full circle and fall in love with them again. Right now I’m enamoured of Feadog’s.