For Sale: MK Low D (green)

Whistle
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I have two MK Low D’s now and one has to go.

It’s a great-playing green MK (made of aluminum with a green finish, in Glasgow Scotland).

I’ve spent the last three or four years playing every Low D I could get my hands on and I’ve come to the conclusion that for me the MK is the best Low D available.

You can hear it here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkL06uOtZQc

The MK combines great tone, great tuning, superior air-efficiency, crisp gracenotes, even voicing… everything I’m looking for.

This MK has some cosmetic flaws I need to point out:

  1. it was manufactured with a slight flaw in the green finish on the headjoint portion, an undulation or ripple in the finish.
  2. it came to me with a couple tiny pinhole-sized holes in the green finish inside the bell, so you see a tiny bit of silver plain aluminum there
  3. the only damage which I’ve done to it is a knock on one side of the mouthpiece

So a visually imperfect but great-playing MK Low D for a good price $275 which includes shipping in the Lower 48 of the USA.

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this whistle has been sold, thanks for all who inquired.

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I have been keeping my ear to the ground for a while now trying to suss out the low D whistle market. While everyones taste is different, the Mk seems to bubble through as a common favourite, however the sweetheart low D “resonance” seems to come through as a popular option. Has the sweetheart ever crossed your path, and if so, how does it compare to the Mk for you?

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It’s not fair, maybe, to judge a whistle based on only playing one example. So the caveat is that I’ve only played one Sweetheart Low D. I don’t know what the model is called, but it was a Low D whistle/ D flute combo thing that had one body and two headjoints. I didn’t care for how it played either with the whistle head or the flute head. I’ve played a very large number of Sweetheart Irish flutes over the last 30 years and I’ve always liked them (especially the maple ones). So I don’t have anything against Sweetheart instruments in general, just the opposite, but that particular combo thing didn’t play well.