I stabbed myself with a brass whistle barrel just above the left eye when removing a feadog mouthpiece. Be careful out there. If I had hit a little lower I’d be blind in one eye for sure.
So how much are you suing Feadog for? Or don’t you folks in the Old Country suffer from the curse of too many ambulance chasers and frivolous lawsuits?
Oh goodie…I finally get to do the “mom” thing!
“Be careful…don’t you know you could put an eye out with one of those things???”
I’ve always wanted to say that! 
Redwolf
Don’t brag! (rimshot sound effect) 
Actually, I find I’m channeling my mother more and more these days - quite a feat, since she’s still alive and well. 
Both my next-younger brother and I were recipients of The Mother’s Curse, though - “someday, I hope you’ll grow up and have children just like you!!!” 
I used to think she was so strict and unreasonable - I mean, what’s wrong with an 8-year-old riding five or six miles away from home without asking permission? Or bringing that really neat water snake he caught home in his pocket? Or jumping off the roof of the house? Or . . . (you get the picture)
These sound really interesting!
Everyone keeps saying they are quiet…
Just to make things more concrete for me, how do they compare in volume to an Oak or Gen.?
Justine
I just got my Whitecap today and rushed to put it on my Feadog tube. The Feadog was originally extremely raspy, and it was hard to get a steady tone out of it. After experimenting with tweaking, I decided to take the easy way out–and I’m glad I did.
The Whitecap didn’t go on easily, though. I did some work on the Feadog tube with various grades of wet-and-dry sandpaper, added a little graphite, and finally held the tube against an ice cube. It still took a bit of work to get it on and into position, but now it’s just right. I don’t think I’ll be able to tune it easily, though. Fortunately, it’s pretty much right on pitch.
It took a few minutes to learn how little air it needed–especially in the lower octave, but it wasn’t really that hard to adjust to. The tone now is very pure and sweet. It’s also very quiet. In particular, going to the top of the upper octave is much more pleasant than either the Dixon or my new Burke narrow Pro D aluminum.
I also have a Clarke Original, but I don’t like it. Even after flattening the arch of the windway a good bit, it still takes a lot of air, and I don’t find the tone appealing at all. My first impression of it was pretty good, but the more I played it, the less I liked it. I doubt that I’ll ever play it again.
I like the tone of the Burke the best of the lot, but high G and up require a substantial increase in air, which results in an equally substantial increase in volume. The Whitecap-Feadog exhibits a much less severe increase–all the way to the high B, and even the high C# isn’t too bad.
I’m sure the W-F is going to be my most played whistle for a while. In my situation, quiet is good, and it’s the easiest to play on tunes that go above second octave E. All-in-all, the tone is very pleasant. Still, I do like the sound of the Burke a lot.
The Dixon is pretty loud by comparison, and also less stable in tone than any of the others. I’ve played all of them into my electronic guitar tuner, and the Dixon’s notes tend to wobble and jump around the most. Also, there’s some kind of discrepancy between the first octave C# and the second octave D that makes the C# sound out of tune. Based on the tuner, I think that the Ds might be a bit sharp in relation to all the other notes, but the discrepancy really stands out when going from the higher D to the C#.
Without its tube, and de-tweaked, the Feadog mouthpiece now sounds a lot like that little duckling in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
Now, what I want to know is, will I be sorry if I try to peal the yellow sticker off of the Feadog tube? I don’t want to end up with a blotchy spot in its place.
I’m guessing I have missed it, but how does one go about ordering a Whitecap?
Rhose:
Go here http://home.bresnan.net/~mackhoover/index.htm then click on the “ordering” page.
I did some measurements about a year ago. Check http://chiffboard.mati.ca/viewtopic.php?t=9696&highlight=
Here are the numbers if you don’t want to check the original thread.
Oak average volume 95.2 decibels max volume 99 decibels
Sweetone average 96.3 max 99
Doolin average 95.4 max 98.6
Hoover Whitecap average 95.6 max 98.6
Clare average 96.4 max 99.7
Susato Kildare standard bore average 102.7 max 108
Just experienced the same thing. You’re right and now I have a Generation D w/ Hoover Whitecap & Hoover F. I’m starting to develop a collection 