LOL Well, you could be right Jens. I just remember Joannie Madden saying that one of the reasons she plays O’Riordans is that she blows really hard and that with other whistles they will play out of tune. It sort of jives with what Mary was saying.
My two cents,
Chris
Hmm, this last doesn’t make much sense to me Chris as I find O’Riordan’s some of the easiest blowing out there - I mean you really can’t blow them very hard before they break to the next octave.
Hmm, guess maybe she was comparing them with Generations and the like? Only way that comment would make any sense…Unless her O’Riordans are different.
Loren
Loren, I agree with you, however it makes even less sense for a whistle to become out of tune by playing it. Have any of your whistles gone out of tune because you’ve played them for a couple years? Mine haven’t :roll:
Chris
My silkstone pvc did. I thought it strange. At the time I posted about it, someone (memory fails) posted a similar “mary bergin claims to blow hers out of tune” comment.
On 2002-07-16 12:54, ChrisLaughlin wrote:
Loren, I agree with you, however it makes even less sense for a whistle to become out of tune by playing it. Have any of your whistles gone out of tune because you’ve played them for a couple years? Mine haven’t :roll:
Chris
[ This Message was edited by: Wandering_Whistler on 2002-07-16 20:49 ]
On 2002-07-16 12:54, ChrisLaughlin wrote:
Loren, I agree with you, however it makes even less sense for a whistle to become out of tune by playing it. Have any of your whistles gone out of tune because you’ve played them for a couple years? Mine haven’t :roll:
Chris
Well, that Abell set I bought from you sounded much better after I cleaned all the GREEN crap out of the windway (totally disgusting) …does that count?!? 
Loren
Hmmm… GREEN CRAP? Before I sent it to you it was more of a yellow color. It must have evolved during shipping.
Chris
Nigella did it.
I don’t know about out of tune, but when I get lucky enough to practice for a long period of time, the Burkes just stop working well. I try and de-clog em but they don’t sound right. had a mouthful of Dr. Bronner’s pepiment soap last nite because the alpro would not play the high B anymore.
My theory was to have two Ds because I knew that might happen. But I find the alpro to be more temperamental while the brass is more stable. But I would be really bothered onstage to not have a functioning whistle after a while.
I think they act differently after they have been heated up. All flute players know to re-tune after a few minutes but if you had a non-tunable whistle, well, you COULD say it had been blown out of tune.
On 2002-07-16 15:51, ChrisLaughlin wrote:
Hmmm… GREEN CRAP? Before I sent it to you it was more of a yellow color. It must have evolved during shipping.
Chris
And all this time I thought it was just left over green beer from St. Paddy’s Day…
Loren
The Weekenders wrote:
Nigella did it.
So, Weekenders, are you saying that Nigella’s cooking made the changes in Dale?
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Walden
Yes and the green crap in the whistle. She did it all, man. She has…powers…
Twisted our young whistlin tyros out of love with the honorably whistling skinny chick in favor of some pot-stirrin hair-spray icon.
Woooooe is me…