It’s a Dixon low G, I’ve only played it a few minutes but I already love it! I’m glad I didn’t go for a low D, there’s no way my hands would have been big enough.
There’s one thing I’m wondering about though: the fingerholes are a bit on the left side of the whistle. I’m thinking maybe that’s normal, or maybe I should turn the mouthpiece so that it would be aligned with the holes.. I tried to do that, and it was really hard to turn it, and I didn’t want to break the whistle, so I gave up and left it as it was. Anyway, I don’t know what to do now! Any input?
Is it tunable? I bought the Dixon duo, and found it was really hard to pull it apart the first time. . . but since it was meant to come apart, I just kept pulling. It’s fine, now, but I still find the whistle hard to pull apart. I can’t imagine that you’d break it . . . but that’s just my opinion.
i’m very glad you like it
you could try and warm the tuning slide a bit under the tap, and dry her after.
then try some plastic kitchen gloves or working gloves for a steady grip. only place your hands on the tuning slide and the bore above the tuning slide, never on the mouthpiece part.
then give it a turn as gentle as you can.
if it’s a non tunable, then do the same thing, and be gentle with the head
if you take the whistle appart after a while, you can grease up the tuning slide with cork grease or vaseline, that way she won’t get stuck anymore
I’m glad I didn’t go for a low D, there’s no way my hands would have been big enough.
