I don’t want any rays to erase the programming in my whistle. It took hours of practice (I’m new, remember) to program the whistle to make the sounds in just the right way.
As a good disaster recovery planner, I’ve backed up the programming but I do not carry the backup tapes on the same flight cause tapes do get erased. Duh.
Does rapping the whistle in tin foil protect it from gamma rays? I know that greassing it in extra virgen olive oil protects it from manta-rays.
(Why can’t I resist?)
Actually, I have adopted an emergency offsite plan. I keep a set of susatos with me in my shoulder bag at all times. I practiced with these for quite a while before I got my sindts. Now, admitedly, I haven’t played the susatos recently - especially the C - so I could be several months behind, but I think I could catch up reasonably quickly (perhaps within a few months) if something terrible happened to the sindts. Although, I don’t know what I’d do if I lost the A or the Eb - I don’t have susatos to cover those 
Jeff
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Ed,
You should pack the whistle in a wooden box containing soil from its native land, this dulls the Gamma Rays, though it may become more sensitive to sunlight as a result. Also don’t let it near Garlic, this will ruin the intonation, and never, ever feed it after midnight.
How is the Clarke coming along? I love my Clarkes and now keep a D & C pair at home, and in my desk drawer at work. The C takes slightly more breath, but being a tone lower takes the squeak out of many tunes, and adds that extra bit of haunt to Slow Airs.
Have you settled on a repertoire for the campfire yet?
Simple solution. Keep your whistles in your jacket pocket and be sure to wear your RAYBAN brand sunglasses while going throught the detector.
Mary
I heard putting it in a widget case and coating the case in snipe oil works?
As long as you don’t use almond oil Lee!
Mark “beatin’ a dead horse” V.
Martin, I am browsing the tunes still. I think a couple “Timeless” pieces that are eternally popular yet were old at the time of the Civil War.
My research shows that many Upper Canadians or British North Americans in the 1860s were immigants rather than born in Canada. The new tunes of the era would most likely be from England, Scotland Ireland, etc..
I’ve not found any original Canadian tunes from the 1860s.
To all the others who responded to this silly thread in the same, yet more richly creative, spirit, Thank you.
Every one here made me feel at home from day one. That feeling of belonging only grows stronger. group hug… gag I HATE group hugs!