Greetings everybody:
I would like to thank everybody for the very kind posts regarding the Bloody Hand Whistle Plans. They are wonderfully gratifying. I hope your handiwork brings you much pleasure.
Two years ago I began a swift descent into the abyss named WhOA. At the depth of this of affliction, I penned the infamous diatribe later published by Dale Wisely, the Undisputed King of Internet Whistle Journalism. It seemed like a good idea at the time.
In the preceding months I had purchased a set of Shaws (E - Low D), several Susatos, four Clarkes, a pair of Waltons’, and a Howard Low C that I played with my fingers and toes. I had also ordered an O’Riordan D/C set that I am still hoping to receive.
My wife did not understand the copper shaving in the carpet, the constant chiffing and fippling. I scolded my trumpet-playing children for slobbering on my four dollar Clarke. I poured over the posts on the Poststructural Whistle Board and exchanged e-mail with the likes of Hastay, Stewart, and Parkhurst.
Frankly, I hit rock bottom, burned out and busted. I simply left the community “indefinitely” and joined a twelve step recovery program at the local YMCA.
Like Michel Corleone before me, “just when I though I was out, they pull me back in,” I now rejoin the whistle community, wiser, poorer, and greatly humbled with older children and the same wife.
The Bloody Hand,
Robert J. McElroy
PS: My heart goes out to the many disappointed by the John McHaffie affair. I once considered selling my own design and thankfully choose to print rather than produce. There, but for the grace of God go I.
[ This Message was edited by: DaleWisely on 2002-02-07 00:23 ]