I haven’t been on here in quite a while. My wife is in the army and recently found out that she would be traveling to Egypt for the next year or so. I found it necessary to spend more time with family for awhile there instead of building whistles and chatting on the board.
Anyhoo, I’ve made some recent developments on the Groovewhistle and thought I would share them with you. This is in no way an attempt at marketing them so I think it should fall within the guidelines of the board
As far as producing them for sale goes, I don’t have any immediate plans. I may build up a few pre-production models and send them to a few people for evaluation before deciding on things like how much to charge for them and how many orders I can possibly fill…
Anyhoo, that’s the status of things… hope you enjoy the pics and the clip
Hey Mike,
That sounds fantastic. The pix look good too, though I think I’d lose the blue sticker. It looks like you switched to all PVC. Weren’t your earlier ones CPVC or am I just remembering incorrectly?
My biggest question is “How the HELL can you play that well after only a few months on the whistle?” As I recall, we both started on the whistle about the same time in January. If I can sound that good after a year, I’ll be ecstatic.
Concur with Mike J’s comments about the whistle and about the playing (since January, really???).
Disagree with his comment about the blue label: I actually like it!
Thanks for the compliments on the whistles and on my playing!
The whistles are part CPVC and part PVC and part Delrin plastic. I’m still debating over the stickers myself… one minute I like them, the next I don’t…
I’ve just agreed to build a whistle for a member who emailed me so I’ll do the same for others if it doesn’t get too outrageous. If you’re interested shoot me an email with an offer and we’ll talk about it…
Umm, regarding the whistles- they look and sound great. I hope that you produce them for others some day, they seem fabulous and I would definitely be interested.
On a more important topic, I wish you, your wife, and family all the best in the coming months. Having spent 20 years in the Navy in a past life, I know what it is like (although I wasn’t married for most of that time).
I think you’re doing extraordinarily well, expecially considering the brief time you’ve been making whistles.
You’ll be getting orders faster than you can keep up with the demand in no time!
Good luck, and I’ll be happy to assist in evaluation if you need any more volunteers.
