Knowing what crazy mishaps happen to mobile phones, I just wondered what sort of mishaps happen to whistles, and was the whistle totalled/written off (delete as preferred) by the experience?
Trisha, Wales
Whistles suffer damage from a wide variety of things, but I’d say being dropped and being sat on are the top two… but not necessarily in that order. 
I’ve only lost one to an accident… I sat on a Waltons LBW, and needless to say, the thin aluminum tube was completely destroyed.
The head was fine though, and I later transplanted it onto a Feadog tube.
I had a whistle mishap early Saturday morning while engaging in a lively chat here at C&F and doing my laundry. I was standing up next to my computer folding my laundry, stepped forward to type a comment at chat – and stepped right on one of my Clarke unpainted D whistles. It now has a huge bent crease between the fipple and the first finger holes.
Strangely, it sounds exactly the same as before. A little chiffy as always, but nice. I think I will take it to work tomorrow and put it in the vise and see if I can uncrease it. I can always say it has battle damage. This whistle has some sentimental value for me, I carried it around with me last summer to all my Civil War reenactments and played it often.
BUT WHY, OH WHY couldn’t it have been my diamond painted Clarke instead??? I tried to give it a thumbectomy and take the diamonds off to give it that Stealth look, but they seem to be permanent. And it has that cheesy modern typeface on it that I hate. The two whistles were right next to each other on the floor. Needless to say, the painted Clarke was unharmed.
Linda S.
madfifer9
Lets see…shut in a car door, baby chewed, dog chewed…melted mouthpieces…
I often stick mine in my purse and take off, my cheapies have a few dents and scratches! I do know of one that was chewed by a dog, and it wasn’t me, it was a professional musican!
I’ve only lost one to an accident… I sat on a Waltons LBW, and needless to say, the thin aluminum tube was completely destroyed.
The head was fine though, and I later transplanted it onto a Feadog tube.
I’m not sure where my LBW tube is right now, but if I never fin it, it won’t bother me. I don’t have an ear for music at all, and even I can tell its out of tune.
My two Generations both bear teeth marks (as does my wooden recorder)…my dog as a puppy began the damage on the brass Gen, and my daughter as a toddler completed the “look” on that one and on the nickel Gen and recorder. All three play just fine…they just look like they’ve been through the wringer. I’m older and wiser now, and keep them up where they can’t fall within the dog’s reach, but I still have to watch my daughter…even at 10, she’s a dedicated fipple chewer! That’s why she’s only allowed to play with the Gens and the Meg.
Redwolf
Not sure WHEN they grow out of chewing. My 6yo son has just shed his first baby tooth but has his own red Sweetone to gnaw. The others have access to a Walton D brass, Feadog brass, and another Sweetone - can you buy new mouthpieces for all these in UK I wonder should the tubes survive?
The 13 yo sometimes ventures to dig out the forbidden whistles (ie MINE) -except the Low ones and the dreaded Shaw A, but at least she keeps her jaws off them now!
If I store any more in this house out of reach, we’ll capsize…and we still have a toddler… 
Trisha, Wales