I don’t begrudge high-end whistle makers their hard earned profit.
I make an obscene amount of money as a computer geek, and to quote Dilbert’s PHB… “It’s just typing, and most of the words are spelled wrong anyway.”
jb
I guess a few members of this board “make an obscene amount of money”, but you are the first to discuss your obscene amount of income openly. Maybe you would like to start a thread on this? Duh… I would say that being a software developer isnt that easy, sometimes you have lots of responsabilities and even lifes can depend on what you’re doing, as it is the case with the health-care system I’m working on…
I wish I made an obscene amount of money,
not for the sake of the money, mind you–
it’s just a perversion on my part.
that post had me wondering how people would take it. I didn’t specify HOW much is an obscene amount. The point was that I consider myself lucky to be well compensated for my time and hope that whistle makers should be so lucky.
Cheers,
jb
On 2002-02-15 15:07, brownja wrote:
that post had me wondering how people would take it. I didn’t specify HOW much is an obscene amount. The point was that I consider myself lucky to be well compensated for my time and hope that whistle makers should be so lucky.
Cheers,
jb
One man’s obscene is another man’s comfortable. As far as I’m concerned, it’s more what you do with it than how much there is.
I also consider myself lucky to be well-compensated. I think a lot of one’s perception of how well-paid he is arises from how he likes his job. For every day I come home disgruntled, there are probably five or ten when I come home thinking that there oughtta be a law against being paid to go to work and have so much fun.
I do hope to be able to get my wood shop well-enough equipped to become a professional whistle and dulcimer maker in my retirement. Possibly harps, too. But I don’t plan on it being my primary source of income.
Charlie
I used to tell people that my compensation was my reward for having to work for Disney
Dan
Makes me all the more “proud” to say I own a Copeland. Instaed of saying, “I’ve got a $350.00 whistle”, I can now say, “I have a $409.00 whistle”. Neh, neh, neh, boo boo!
Israel
On 2002-02-15 19:38, israel wrote:
Makes me all the more “proud” to say I own a Copeland. Instaed of saying, “I’ve got a $350.00 whistle”, I can now say, “I have a $409.00 whistle”. Neh, neh, neh, boo boo!Israel
Yeah…Rub it in LOL
Dan
On 2002-02-15 19:38, israel wrote:
Makes me all the more “proud” to say I own a Copeland. Instaed of saying, “I’ve got a $350.00 whistle”, I can now say, “I have a $409.00 whistle”. Neh, neh, neh, boo boo!Israel
After recently doing some recording for a local celtic/rock band, I tried several whistles and by far the Copelands (I “only” have a high and low D) were just absolutely superior to the others.
The only way I could explain it to the engineer was: This one cost $5 and the other cost $400…he seemed to grasp that explination.
Unfortunately I need to use a C whistle for the next track and all I have in C are Generation and Susato.
BTW, can anyone explain how Copelands are made (in general)? It seems like I saw this somewhere once, but I haven’t found it again.
[ This Message was edited by: dsparling on 2002-02-16 10:33 ]
Copeland starts with straight tubing, and, using a series of temperings, draw rings and mandrels, somehow manages to create what I consider to be the finest low D in existence. I am a firm believer that if you want the best, price is not an issue… sound is. I wouldn’t balk at $35,000 for a Steinway (7 foot, walnut finish please), I didn’t balk at $850 for an uilleann chanter and I certainly wouldn’t hesitate to pay $400 for a Copeland low D. You get what you pay for, and Mike and Jim work hard to supply what you buy. If price is an issue, Mike also developed the mouthpiece for the Clark Sweetone.
Amazing! I wondered if somehow they
started with conical tubing.