Let me begin by thanking everyone here on Chiff and Fipple for being so very good to me over the years, and to wish you all a very Happy and Prosperous New Year. Special thanks to Dale Wisely for keeping this wonderful venue open for all of us. I continue to enjoy the heck out of reading it!
Okay. I did say “CP”. My repertoire (sp?) is still limited to the few types of whistles shown on my site, and there is a new version of the BrassySinger now called the BrassyCopperySinger thanks to Bjorne H., which has a less-finicky mouthpiece. The old BrassySinger will no longer be made.
For January now to the 15th, I’m shipping free to US locations, 1/2 price to overseas. No more free- or reduced-shipping orders after the 15th until I reopen wherever… that’s right, I’m not sure where it will be any more, though it will be in GA.
If you order early, by or before 15 January, your instrument(s) will be out the door within 2 weeks. Oh. Except for the Village Smithy. They still take a longer time to build. But I’ll do my best even with those.
Again, Happy New Year to all, and may you grow and prosper.
Bill Whedon
Serpent Music
Since you posted I thought I would show you my favorite Serpent in it’s natural habitat. Yup, that’s the Village Smithy with a cedar fipple plug I bought from you several months ago.
I bought it on Darwin’s recommendation. He said something like, “They can have my Village Smithy when they pry it out of my cold, dead hands.”
It has been banging around in my technical toolkit for months - and not a wit the worse for wear. Though it’s killed two marble mouse trackballs. I suppose being a Serpent I should expect the mouse killing.
I made one small modification. I used a diamond jewelers file to take a little meat off the top of the cedar fipple plug because I like lowish back-pressure. I’ve got to say I second Darwin’s recommendation for the Village Smithy.
