Anyone know what’s up with this?
Fead�g Teoranta
Aidan McCullough
8 The Westway Centre
Ballymount Avenue
Dublin 12. www.feadog.ie
Yes, thanks! I knew the address, if you’re suggesting that I write to them.
Let me rephrase the question: Does any Chiffboard member have information on the current status of the feadog.ie website that he or she is willing and/or able to share and post here on the board?
Nearly every site I hae seen like this in the past couple of years has either been bought out, sold or reorganizing to improve competitive position.
San Diego is getting higher on my list? How are things.?
Ron
Yep, it’s been back up for a few months now, I think. Shiny is good. 
A few cavils:
There’s no “Products” link on the top menu, where anyone would expect it. You have to hunt down the small Products box down the page to the right. The way I size my browser, it’s nearly off the screen.
Then, to buy a particular whistle for yourself, you have to figure out that it’s not a “Loose Whistle” you want, as seems the obvious choice, but a “Gift Pack”. (But I do like giving myself gifts!)
Finally, the whole site is hosted using HTTPS, including the pages that have nothing to do with secure transactions. It’s a bit weird.
Ah, the tricky, tricky Irish. I guess I should tell Feadóg, and not just complain about it here. But then they’ll take the site down for another 6 months …
I bought a couple of Whistles from the site some days ago. Everything’s fine till now! Just waiting for them to arriveeee! 
I have a Clarke Celtic and I wanted to try a new one to check on the sound diferences. I came from a electric bass background, and being able to buy two instruments for less than 20€ (i got a brass and a nickel one, both D), shipping included…AHAHAHAH IT’S MARVELLOUS!!! In my bass guitar that amount couldn’t even buy a set of strings!
Here here Chris C. Shiny is good. My pet bird would love that. She really digs shiny things.
If they’re planning to take the site down anyway, they might rethink the concept of ‘click to enlarge’.
Come to think of it, that might be an appropriate subject line for most of my spam lately.
well, you know, “click to view the image at the same size in a new window” doesn’t quite have the same ring to it
Not too happy with feadog.ie. I bought a couple of whistles on the 27th of January and they still didn’t arrive…
I deal with Feadog central from time to time - they are great folks .. never had any bother.
Not talking to them so much lately as their head salesman moved to Oz .. but he’s out of the whistle biz now.
The “gift-pack” thingy is a clear plastic “crystal-pack” with one or other of their whistles inside - it comes with a rather nice starter’s chart with a note-chart, couple of tunes and all with music notation and tablature. If you don’t need that, get the loose whistle and pay less.
I like the Feadog company - I like their whistles - specially the powder-coated colored ones. But even the plain brass-body ones come out pretty consistent as well.
I like how they don’t glue the head on anymore - with a little bit of a grunt the head can be worked loose without boiling water - and, hey-presto, tunable.
Mostly, they have a great bell note, really good intonation .. best off-the-shelf cheapie I’ve found (to my taste). And they usually tweak-up very nicely - usually all you need is the poster-putty tweak to fix the chaotic G in both octaves - the powder-coat ones respond best to this. To get better for not a lot more cost, try one of Jerry Freeman’s.
Anecdote:
I always get a green powder coat Feadog and tweak it up for my kit. They only ever last a month or so in my bag and I end-up giving it to someone.
Once I was in a session at a festival. The guy on the chair in front of me was a blind English chap - he does little else than play music and his main instrument is whistles. He has pretty much, every whistle made. Including a couple of mine.
We were playing on there for a while and he turned around and asked “what’s that whistle you’re playing? It sounds great!”
I said “hey it’s just an old Feadog I fixed up a bit.”
He recognised my voice and said “Hey Mitch! Can I buy it off you!?”
I said - “Damn! There goes another one!” .. He still uses it.
That was just a powder-coat Feadog with the poster putty tweak to fix the G, a little scrape on the windway exit to grunt-up the bottom-end and a ding in the end to flatten the bell a little .. a little blunting to stop it squeeking.
These are good whistles. They have the classic narrow-bore cylindrical sound without being lost in the session.
I just retired my Clarke C in favour of a Feadog C that I did a bit of work on. I increased the window size to improve the lower notes, then reshaped the blade. It has made a fairly loud smooth sounding whistle. I also filled in the area under the windway. The modifications raised the pitch considerably so when I reglued the head it was about quarter of an inch further out. The bottom C is very strong. Overall hard to beat given the price.
Here is a clip: