I found the flute I really want, it’s a casey burns in boxwood and it sounds great, nice a loud with lots of reedyness and honking. I also found a Copeland low D whistle that I’ve been wanting for a long time. unfortunately I can’t buy both, maybe it’s time to start thinking of selling off some of the gun collection since I don’t shoot nearly as much as I used to.
well, I borrowed a Boxwood Burns in D from Dusty Strings awhile back for a flute clinic. My tone was far less impressive than it is now and I was still impressed with the beautiful sound that came out of it immediately.
I have no doubt that when pushed, the flute would have sounded nothing short of amazing.
Doesn’t really help your decision as I haven’t lusted for a Copeland as much as I have for fine flutes - but my vote goes for the flute (of course you’re also asking folks in the flute forum 
).
Regards,
- Ryan
I’ve tried out the one at dusty strings, I didn’t liek it nearly as much as the one I tried first, he calls it an “ergonomic pratten”. I tried out a bunch of flutes in one night, so far the only one I liked better was a peter noy with the walrus ivory strip in the lip plate, that one sounded really nice but to me it wasn’t quite $1500 better than the burns I liked.
I have a Copeland low D and also some D flutes.
My experience, and I believe that of some others,
is that once you really start playing flutes,
you tend to prefer them to low whistles.
They are much more expressive, challenging,
and absorbing. (Also louder. )
Which is not to denigrate low D whistles.
So if I had to choose,
I’d buy the flute.
Flute.
Cheers,
Aaron
Flute.
And yes, sell off some of the gun collection.
I’d rather have a tune cannon than a real one…
I wouldn’t want to give up either one, but it would be an easy decision. I play the boxwood flute at least ten times as much as the Copeland.
Flute.
(shouldn’t this have been a poll?) 
And no matter what you do, don’t ask the same question in the whistle board.
When someone breaks into your home at night a 12 gauge tends to be a little more persuasive than a flute 
I imagine I’d get the exact opposite answer in the whistle forum, I guess I posted it here because I was kinda leaning toward the flute anyway.
Ok true, but the flute would give you an edge with the ‘confusion factor’. The would-be thief would take pause, wondering what the heck you were threatening him with, giving you enough time to cold-cock him and call the authorities. 
Good choice on the flute btw - maybe I’ll see it (and you) around at a session sometime in the future!
Regards,
- Ryan
Get the flute.
Or I guess, if you have a lot of guns, you could rob a bank and buy both. 
In my opinion the Copeland Low D is a flute wanna-be anyway.
Doc
Well, it’s the low D whistle from hell, but
it isn’t a flute. I have met flute players, good
ones, who loved playing it more than flute.
Jim, maybe those guys had some kind of psychiatric disorder? Disturbed perception of reality, schizophreny, multiple personality disorder …
Or maybe they just wanted to play around with a new toy.
what sessions do you play at? I co-run the one at the celtic bayou and once in a while I show up at the old pequliar