I hadn’t seen much of DazedInLA, one of C&F’s major posters, lately. I notice he posted on Monday of this week. Just wondering how Dazed Industries is doing, and the Whistle Annex.
Walden, you really keep on top of what goes on here, don’t you?!
Good for you, man!!! 
~Larry
On 2002-12-28 08:01, Walden wrote:
I hadn’t seen much of DazedInLA, one of C&F’s major posters, lately. I notice he posted on Monday of this week. Just wondering how Dazed Industries is doing, and the Whistle Annex.
Hey Walden:
Yeah, I’m no longer a Major Poster (MP?), mostly an occasional lurker these days (I guess I’ve even been knocked out of the Top 40!). I’m running two local sessions now, and have been focusing primarily (perhaps even obsessively) on fiddle since July, so unfortunately find I have little to contribute to the Collective Whistle Discussion.
The R&D team at Dazed Industries continues labor in a Mountain Dew-induced frenzy to bring wonderful whistle products to the world. For example, for those who simply must whistle while driving (you know who you are, yes I mean you and you and you)..our Beijing facility should be completed soon and will go into production of the Overton Low D Auto-Pilot GPS Driving System (Radar Detection optional), as well as the more economical Impact-Collapsable Whistles in D, C and Bflat. Because, at Dazed Industries, its Safety First…
Kev/Dazed
Fiddle, Kevin? Fiddle?
Whistle or BAN, dude; whistle or BAN.
Stuart
Hey Stu:
Its not so bad, over here on the DARK SIDE. 
Oh, and fiddling is the perfect cure for WHOA. No longer do I lie awake nights wondering if the ORiordan I dont have yet would sound better than the Copeland that should arrive by UPS tomorrow.
Full disclosure, though, WHOA gets replaced by Fiddle Music Acquisition Disorder…with so many genres of music available, you find yourself snatching your hand away from the mouse as it tries to order a new book on Gypsie Fiddle Music or the Skye Collection of Scottish Strathspeys or the new Jerry Holland Cape Breton Fiddle collection…
Hey, at least I’m not playing Banjo.
Kev/Dazed
The perfect cure, eh?
What about FOA? Or, its snobby cousin, VOA?
Strad? Guarnieri? Hmmmmmm?
I’m just kidding about it all, anyway. I just can’t play stringed stuff. Period!
Banjo would be fun . . .
Stuart
Yeah, that’s the strange thing about fiddle…I have a basic $500 fiddle purchased from a larger, established online distributor. Its a very good student/amateur type instrument that delivers a good sound (my teacher thought I’d paid at least $800 for it, so I guess I did OK for having ordered it online). And all you have to do is go to Shar or something and see lots of better fiddles/violins, yet unlike whistling, now that I have my fiddle, that’s my fiddle, I don’t yearn for another one or give a moment’s thought to what another one would sound like.
I think a lot of it has to do with the fact that whistles are in fixed keys while the fiddle is fully chromatic and can play any key, so fiddlers are not conditioned to needing/coveting/evaluating many different versions of their instrument, and instead spend the bulk of their time trying to learn how to play the instrument they have. It is interesting what a completely different mindset there is between Whistling and Fiddling regarding Instrument Acquisition.
Of course, if someone wants to send me a Strad for free to review, I’ll be happy to accommodate… [tiptoes sheepishly from the minefiled]
Kev
-Gotta stick up for banjo. -Just because much of it is grating or worse doesn’t mean it all is, kind of like whistle. Hey, wait a minute, don’t throw me in that pool!
{Splash}
YES…let’s here it for lurkers!!! Because of financial difficulties I had to sell the uilleans and am now back to GHBing. My whistling activities have also taken a back seat for a while. If it didn’t cost so much to have a bow rehaired I’d be fiddling too.
By the by, Stuart, the last time I played my banjo (coming from Tennessee bluegrass AND Ozark mountain country) it had strings on it. Maybe that’s why it keeps making the horrible twangy sounds when I play them…
Kevin, where are those mysterious sessions you speak of in LA?? Also, when you give away or sell your useless whistles at a ludicrously low price (so you can buy more fiddles) can I be first in line???
Where in Ozark Mountain country, John? My people on both sides are from about 100 miles north of Little rock.
Stuart
[ This Message was edited by: sturob on 2002-12-30 06:13 ]
Well, actually I’m in Florida now, but am still in denial about it so I havent changed my username to DazedinFLA or anything like that. I’ve heard there’s a sessiion in Venice somewhere, but dont know much about it…I didnt get into the Irish music scene till after I left LA.
The only whistle I have that would interest anyone is my Nickel Copeland D, which I still play, but not nearly as much as I used to and not enough to be session-worthy…but I still have no intention of selling it, so sorry, no help there for ya.
Well, Stuart, about nine years in a SMALL town (population 18) just over the Missouri border north of Little Rock called Fairdealing…sort of Ma & Pa Kettle country. And three years in the woods just north of Memphis, Tenn.