I am selling a Glenn Schultz (he was in CT when I bought the whistle–is he still?) Thin Weasel Rosewood pennywhistle in the key of D. It was purchased sixteen years ago, and is in nearly unused condition. (it does need to be oiled, though).
It comes with the carrying case, and it is the two piece tuneable style in dark rosewood. Silver fittings.
I am asking $250, which includes insured shipping to anywhere in the continental US (more for overseas to allow for customs, extra shipping, etc.).
huh-- maybe he was in Michigan then, too… well, back when i was sixteen, Michigan must have seemed OH SO VERY FAR AWAY that it might as well have been CT…
PS-- ALL reasonable offers will be considered. My asking price was suggested to me by someone else familiar with the C&F community. This whistle is lonely and looking for a good home where it will be enjoyed and PLAYED as it should be.
sixteen years ago I bought a really nice whistle (and a really nice Cooperman fife) that ended up being WAY nicer than my musical skill warranted (the Thin Weasel) and now i’m trying to sell it because I’m really in debt, and so far all the replies i’ve gotten on this forum have been kind of mean and catty.
I’ve only posted about it twice-- and the second posting was to mention that my asking price was not firm and that i’m open to offers. The rest of the posts have been someone RUDELY correcting me. Correct me, fine-- but you don’t have to be rude about it! I bought it SIXTEEN YEARS AGO. Sorry that i didn’t remember that he’s from Michigan. Sorry that I didn’t remeber that the siver-colored metal is Stainless steel. It’s not like I’m trying to swindle anyone, for Pete’s sake!
And a few days ago I oiled it with olive oil (but without the almond oil and Vitamin E that Glenn suggests adding to the olive oil). It’s not like it was freakin’ kindling-dry. It was cleaned after use and oiled periodically back while I was actually playing it (which wasn’t very much)
Yes, I only joined this message board to sell the whistle. No, I don’t play anymore. I’M MEDIOCRE AT BEST! No, I shouldn’t have bought it in the first place-- but it’s kind of too late for that now!
so, if you have nothing nice to say, don’t say anything at all…
Don’t take the cattiness personally, it happens here in FS threads from time to time. Frankly, it’s not the best time to sell an expensive whistle. If you can wait until before Christmas you’ll do better. You can also list on eBay, that sometimes fetches higher prices than the chiffboard, sometimes it doesn’t.
The resale market here on C&F is in a lull right now. You will probably get a very good price for the whistle on ebay.
BrewerPaul is really a nice guy, and I took his posts as simple, polite corrections…not catty at all, and the fact is, you’ll do better at selling it with his information.
I might add that if you offered a money back guarantee of satisfaction or something like that, so that someone could try it and check out its quality, you might get some nibbles on the instrument. I’ve done that myself with a very high end whistle, and been sasfied with the transaction. The whistle was rejected by two people, but the third one I loaned it to is thrilled with it.
Best of luck with the sale…my own TW is highly regarded by the old fellow I perma-loaned it to. He considers it to be the perfect whistle of all the ones I’ve ever asked him to try.
his posts weren’t that bad, i guess, but that last person-- really sounded like they think that i’m TOTALLY trying to be a big swindler. Mistakes aren’t LIES. They are MISTAKES.
i’m just trying to scrape together enough money to buy a car-- or really , just the down-payment at this point. If I raise enough fast enough, my monthly payments will be low enough that I can actually afford something. that’s why I wanted to emphasize that I’m open to offers–sure i need as much as I can get, but 1) I don’t know what the whistle is worth and 2) I need the money kind of soon-ish. Not like bail-me-out-of-jail soon, but “soon”.
I’ve looked around a bit on ebay, but I haven’t seen anything all that high-end. And fifes, which I’ve looked at here and there over the years, never sell for as much as I expect them to (both antique and repros).
I’ve got some good offers from fifer friends who all got to play with it this past weekend, and Keri (who has it right now) will probably put in a great offer. SHE wants it BADLY.
Izzy, just another suggestion that you don’t take any of this too personally. There is another side to this. People here tend to be both very sceptical of anything offered for sale here or on eBay that has anything about it even slightly suspicious and also to be very critical of errors from sellers even when they are mistakes. It all comes out in the wash and although you probably weren’t expecting to be put into a washing machine and then through the wringer it is, up to a point, acceptable practice unfortunately. That is because, as a community, we try to protect eachother from the opportunistic conmen and women and the sincere but deluded sellers who are out to fleece a gullible punter or at least to get a sale that meets unreasonable expectations. Items are posted on eBay every day that are not quite what they seem and sometimes nothing remotely like what they seem. Many members of our community are new to whistles, in love with them, and therefore rather vulnerable. As always, the honest traders have to put up with a bit of unpleasantness in order that the dishonest be exposed. This isn’t just a small problem. Some people try to pass off new whistles as antiques and owners of antique flutes of unknown origin and in poor condition tend to assume that they are offering a rare and valuable item. It is only by grilling the owner and putting together the pieces of the story that we can put their credentials to the test.
If you took my replies as rude or catty, I apologize. If you check around this board, you will often see very short replies-- these are not meant to be curt or rude, simply time saving. We don’t always have time for long, more chatty responses.
My only interest in this is, as Tyghress suggests, to HELP you sell what is undeniably a nice whistle. I did not want to see you inadvertantly selling a whistle with “silver” fittings, which I was virtually certain were stainless. Glenn has experimented with many things, and it’s not impossible that he made several whistles with silver fittings, but I did not think this was the case.
You may or may not know it, but many people here know that in fact Glenn and I are old friends, and that he is the one who taught (continues to teach) me whistlemaking, so when I say things about him and his whistles, I’m coming from a place of somewhat more information than some.
Again, sorry if you took my tone wrong, and I wish you luck selling your Weasel
