You are stranded on a deserted island. You only had time to salvage two whistles from the wreckage, along with two CD’s of ITM to jam along with. (you manage to make off with a solar powered CD player as well I suppose). Which two whistles and albums do you grab as you abandon ship?
Hans Bracker D and Bb and some other CDs altogether (for listening to, not jamming).
Good question! I could use a bit of deserted island today.
Whistles: MK pro low D, DIY-tweaked Oak high C.
Albums: Réalta - Open the Door for Three, David Power - Cuaichín Ghleann Neifín.
I might give different answers on the whistles, and would probably give different answers on the albums, if you asked me again next month.
Funny, I nearly said the eighteen Moloney if it had to be Irish because that’s the one I’ve been listening to and enjoying recently. But don’t think the pitch would suit playing along even if I wanted to!
Ha! That’s what the Oak C is for. On Cuaichín, most of the tracks seem to be at concert C pitch–no tuning adjustment necessary.
I probably would have put some early Molloy on my list if my solar-powered CD player could be adjusted for pitch (and speed!)
I do beg your pardon. The Scott heritage in me just slapped the Irish part. 
Any trad will do of course.
Whistles: Classic Gen D and Susato low D
Hmmmm. Two albums? Sorry, my head would explode. I can’t pick just two.
Hokay…
Whistles: First would be my Bleazey blackwood G, because I just love it to pieces! Second choice is harder… Hmm, I think the Mellow Dog, because it’s just so bloody versatile.
Recordings: Nah, I’m with Brus. Too hard. This is the 21st century. All my music fits on a thumb-drive. I’m taking everything! 
Cheers
Marc E
Andrea Corr and she could choose the whistle…
Best wishes.
Steve
Milligan Delrin D, Blackbird Eb
Wooden Flute Obsession volume 2 (2 discs) - if I get another CD, then volume 1.
Chieftain OS C for the low range, Oz C for the high range.
CDwise (if any trad will do) apologies to my Scottish grandfather. Then again the ex vikings likely wound up in Brittany too, so I’d go with Alan Stivell - Journée à La Maison (not for the flute but for Alan’s voice) and from Denmark, Poul Høxbro - Tu Tu Pan Pan, which is mostly medieval. His Ralph Sweet Tabor pipe in G sounds incredible. HAS ANYONE GOT ONE OF THESE?
Although I do not have any in my possession. I think I would want to take the biggest most heaviest Low D or lower solid aluminum whistles. That way, I could maybe use them to kill the wildlife that may be roaming the island or swimming in the lagoon. Tote water too. A fellow has got to eat.
I have one of, what I believe is the last batch he made circa 2006. A gift from a friend who believed that everyone should play Morris music. Nice instrument but sadly it languishes un-played among the whistles, flutes and Native American flutes.
Best wishes.
Steve
A Generation nickel D and Bb.
Albums, hmmm, that’s a tough one. If I had to narrow it down to two it would be 1 by Joanie Madden and one by Micho Russell. Not sure which albums though.
Easy choice for the whistles: my beat-up but wonderful MK Low D, and my 35-year-old Generation C.
As for CDs it would be The Art Of The Fugue and… well, there doesn’t need to be a 2nd one. I could spent several lifetimes noodling along with that! And never ‘have’ it all.
At an uilleann pipe workshop the ‘name’ piper teaching the class was posed the ‘deserted island’ question and also said The Art Of The Fugue. I paid extra-close attention to the rest of his workshop!
Ah yes. The bludgeoning of fish and other small creatures must be taken into consideration. Self defense from neighboring island’s warring tribes as well perhaps?
Henry Beck’s Flute Book and knowledge to make an instrument, and hopefully a tool that would help.
But I was thinking more like Beethoven’s Opus 111 piano sonata and maybe some Mozart (the Gran Partita?) or Bach (good choice, Richard, but I’d take the D minor violin partita for that astonishing chaconne)…
So of course I love trad, but why take the trad CDs when I can play as much as I like on my whistles (and maybe my flute, smallpipes and border pipes when they float ashore!)?
Whistles - Blackwood Matte Black High “D” by Gal Hiltch
Abell African Blackwood High “D” by Chris Abell
CD’s - Liam O’Flynn - “The Piper’s Call” and “The Fine Art of Piping”
I’d take a couple of Susatos.
I have whistles I like to play more but none as rugged.–