I am selling my hi D Laughing Whistle by Noah Herbison.
The whistle telescopes and fits into your pocket easily. Pleasant sound, not too loud, plays easily. I like mine but I find that I am just not running around, smelling the roses and playing my whistle enough to justify carrying around a whistle in my pocket, even a telescoping one.
$75.
From what I’ve heard, that’s a very nice whistle, but isn’t $75 a bit excessive, considering that the currently-posted price for a new one is $60?
Sold to me I hope!!
I have a Laughing Whistle to evaluate, and I wrote to Noah. The current price is $79.00. So Bloom’s whistle is cheaper than the actual price, and no waiting period. Irishflutestore.com has them for $85.00 and no wait, so again, Bloom comes in a bit cheaper.
For what it’s worth, it’s a sweet-sounding pure whistle. I like them quite a bit. I think for a little while, at least, Beth was a bit addicted to them and tried to corner the market or something 
Just for clarification, Noah’s whistles are not $60. His website is outdated. He’s now charging $79 and has a waiting list so Bloomy’s OK. 
Doc
I gave it a good shot, anyway. My acquisition of Laughing Whistles is on hold for the moment, but two of my remaining seven or so whistles are Laughings…
The additional shipping costs, customs fees, time of posting etc to get one over here are all mild deterrents.
Hm, wonder what a laughing in Eb would be like…
Sold to Gary. =)
Careful Gary - now that you’ve got TWO Preciouses they will fight for your attention.
And you’ll use up your polishing stuff twice as fast. 
Sorry for being too lazy to search the archives for a review but -
Doesn’t a collapsible whistle tend to collapse when playing? I’ve got a two parter but it always used to become two parts in mid tune. In the end instead of buying pocket-sized whistles I started buying clothes with whistle sized pockets.
That’s why I wear cargo pants big long pockets!
I also have some carpenter’s or painter’s shorts (whatever they are called) that have a big long pocket down one side…its long enough that I can carry my NAF in it! 
On the Laughing I have for review now, friction holds it together pretty good. On my old one, friction did too, until I used tuning slide grease on it..heh! Then it was slippery as all get out and it was some months before it got back into good working condition.
Not the Precious. I seem to recall someone (I honestly can’t remember who but am loathe to guess out loud) once took their Precious apart and oiled the sliding sections, and had it fall apart whilst playing. But in normal use and without oil the telescoping sections are quite tight.
If you let them go all grungy and don’t keep them nice and shiny with a Goddard’s Silver Polishing cloth (by appointment to Her Majesty The Queen), then they’re even harder to telescope and collapse!
Lovely whistles. But not session instruments per se, unless it’s a small and friendly house session with nothing louder than a fiddle (or perhaps a melodeon).
Heehee.
I’ve had, let’s see, six D laughing whistles and one C laughing whistle (and a Low D but they don’t telescope) and never had a problem. Sometimes it was too stiff and hard to move the components, but more often then not it was engineered perfectly.
One thing that I always liked (and you can check this too Gary) is how each one sounds slightly different, and if you interchange the parts between two whistles they’ll sound different again. Buy enough of them and you can customise them to your own preferences!
You obviously don’t share a house with a 120 bass accordion player.
Gary, just to let you know that I am investing the ridiculously high amount I am charging you in an Colin Goldie Overton Bass A.
Think Big.
When you buy that Bass A, let me know. I’ll be glad to come to your place to help whenever you want to play it. I’ll handle a couple of holes. We will need a 3rd person, however.
Thanks for the kind offer, but that won’t be necessary. I’ve a plan to use that bass A to break the ice at parties, together with three topless hoola dancers of my acquaintance. They’d sort of line up, and then cover two holes each with their… oh, but never mind. I don’t want to spoil it beforehand.
It’s going to be my party piece.
Just think… if you’d had two preciousses for sale, you could’ve got the CGO Bass Bb too! 
I have a Bernard Bass A. I like it a lot now that I have smoothed out the tone holes a smidge. They were just a tad too sharp for me as mfg’s. Makes a nice harmony accompany instrument for a high or low d.
Grumble…Had I known that, I would have put in a bid!
