Just out of complete morbid curiosity… I have seen some mention they have 20… 30… or more whistles…
I cannot fathom having more than say… oh… 50ish…
Im wondering if 20+ is normal, or if it goes much farther than this.
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Shay…
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[ This Message was edited by: Nyghtshayde on 2003-02-21 18:40 ]
Well I don’t have anywhere near one score.
I’m down to only 1. Of course, I have a mess of home made and el cheapo flutes (plus one good one) as well as a nice fife.
We all have our little problems…be they WhOA or FlOA (did I capitalize the right letter there?).
I’m counting 36, not including repeats (multi Feadog’s for example), but including one ‘give it a spin’ that’s on its way, and one ‘in the works’, Tyghre’s whistles, a NAF and an Irish flute that’s in the mail, and 3 that are either out on perma-loan, or in the process of being sold. Nearly half of the 35 whistles are soprano D’s. One third of the total are inexpensive mass produced items (I refuse to call them cheap because it makes 'em sound worthless and they aren’t) and 20% are wood.
{editted to up the count by one…how could I have forgotten THAT one, I don’t know!)
Tyghress
…And I go on, pursuing through the hours,
Another tiger, the one not found in verse.
Jorge Luis Borges
[ This Message was edited by: tyghress on 2003-02-22 16:26 ]
About 6 I’d say, not counting the poison Oaks I have saved for posterity.
only 6 different kinds.. Generation, Oak, Clarke, Waltons, Hoover, My own.
I’ve got a lot more whistles than 6, but only 6 different kinds.
Take care,
John
P.S. … If I was Mr. Money bags… I admit I would probably own one of every make and key out there!!! 
Not nearly enough! 
Really though, I basically have three… two Sindts and an O’Brian improved. I started with a Clarke original… but leaned my lesson when my young son got a hold of it and bent the mouthpiece out of shape. He now has his own whistles he “plays”… a Meg and a Generation. He’s happy and hasn’t even asked to look at my whistles in ages. Hoping to add to my family of whistles soon… as I said on an earlier post I’m currently “dreaming of a wooden whistle”.
I refuse to count, much less list them. Last time someone started a thread like this it took me fifteen minutes to remember them all and had to edit the message five times for whistles I’d forgotten.
Suffice to say that I can count twenty without moving my head. Counting the collectibles, mistakes, eBay fliers and others I don’t play for one reason or another would probably push me over the fifty, sixty or more if I count each tube in the sets.
[ This Message was edited by: Chuck_Clark on 2003-02-21 21:11 ]
I’ve pared down the collection to about 20, about 12 are cheapies. I only want 6 more whistles, a good A, Ab, Bb, low F, E, and Eb. Other than that I’m set.
Three. A Sweetone, a Little Black, and a Generation Bb. I must say the Sweetone was my first, and still my favorite. A D/C Elfsong set will be joining my small menagerie soon as well.
Oh, my God, I have 8 whistles, and I didn’t even know it! A Sweetone, Meg C and D, a Clarke original, Clare 2-piece, Generation F, Little Black, and a Dixon D with Brass Tuning Slide. I had no idea. Whoa! I started playing around Christmas…this is bad.
Right now I’m only really playing the Meg D and Dixon, with occasional forays into the others. Maybe I’m a sucker, but I’m really liking the Meg. I like its bare-bones look too, I got the “unfinished” model.
Someday, though, I’ll get a really NICE whistle. The hard part will be deciding which one…
Robin
)(edited to indicate that I don’t have 5 Sweet heart rosewood Cs)
[ This Message was edited by: paul on 2003-02-21 23:02 ]
10- Feadog D, Clare D, Sweetone D, Oak D (funny tasting), Oak C, Generation Bb, Burke Brass Pro Session D, Water Weasel D, Susato Kildare D, Susato VSB D
Currently, 3: Clarke Original D, Oak C, Oak D-(not only tastes funny, it stings! Anyone else notice that? Also, low octave-sounds great, higher octave-wow, horrible beyond belief, but worse in the C than the D)
Expecting, 2 more: LBW D, Feadog D
Then we’ll see what happens.
Lemme see…
1 Elfsong C/D combo
1 O Briain “improved”
1 stock Feadog
1 Dixon w/brass tuning slide
1 Susato Dublin
1 Clare (which is going to be my tweaking project)
2 Megs (one D, one C)
1 “Woodstock” (a Sweetone by any other name)
2 Generation Ebs
Looks like 11 at the moment
Redwolf
Hmmmmmm…
Those yet alive
Those already dead (badly tweaked)
So that makes “4”
Sad eh?
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T
tweeked feadog D & C
tweeked Brass Gen hi G D &Bb
nickle gen D
Sweatone D
Colin Goldie Overton low d (thanks Cheryl)
homemade copper (HC) tuneable D (my stock whistle)
HM nontunable D - RUBBISH !!!
HM tuneable (HMT) low G
HMT low E
HMT low F#
HMT low D
HMT low C
the ZOOBER_DOOPER hehehe homemade one and only prototype polished copper Boehm reversed taper type tunable D
coming soon to a …
Paul Busman cocobolo wooden D
prototype purpleheart wooden Boehm reversed taper low D
16 (sad) and 2 in progress. Do you think whistle hoarders are collectomaniacs (?) my other main weaknesses are old vehicles (6 from 1915 to 1953) and anything to do with bees
Richard.
Me… I have:
WoodSong (Hawk LittleJohn) Eastern Red Cedar, Mid E NAF
1 Generation Nickel Bb - useless
1 Oak D - Poison
1 Unlabeled/unidentified black whistle in D, Black plastic fipple, black matte finish body, plays but squawks and is not fond of the second octave or C
So.. really 1 flute, and 3/4 of a whistle.
My collection is ALWAYS one short of absolute completion!