Howdy y'all! (Newbie here)

“Is your Dixon a tunable (2-piece) model? If it is, try pulling the two pieces apart about 1/4” from the completely closed position."

Ahh, I’ll give it a try, I’ve just been playing with the slide all the way closed. Can it really make that much of a difference to pull the slide in or out?


"Welcome to C&F. Pay no attention to the voices telling you to buy more and more whistles, once you have the full sets of Dixons and Generations, an Overton or two, a Sindt, two Burkes, a Busman, a Water Weasel, 3 Abells and an O’Riordan on order.

“And a Serpent, a Bleazy, a Hoover Whitecap, a Larson tweaked Clarke, Feadogs Mark I, II and III…”

I’'m getting scared now, I might have to start one of those “Please send me money to help me support my whistle habit!” websites… :wink:

PC

“Welcome, Paul…Give the following C# fingering a try. It will work with both C#'s: 000XXX.
Good luck and best wishes.
Byll”

Thanks! I’ll give it a try.

It’s interesting to see how some whistles respond to/require different fingerings than the standard. It’s kind of interesting how you can even have several different fingerings for the same note on the same whistle. I like having these different sound textures to play with.

PC

“Welcome Paul. May you have eons of enjoyment.”

Thanks! With apologies to Bogey: “This could be the start of beautiful relationship.”

PC

PS – Love your screename!

"Another newbie here

“Hope that I’ll soon be a whistler too g”

Me too! :)–

Persistence is the key to all tunes…

PC

Thank you kindly, y’all seem like a fun bunch!

That’s just part of our cunning deception plan.

BTW, your choice of nickname suggests that you’re no stranger to controversy yourself, given the the current OT climate…


Roger [card-carrying, practising but always critical Francophile]

your choice of nickname suggests that you’re no stranger to controversy yourself

What are you talking about? If you’ve seen them play lately, there can no controversy about Les Bleus: They stink! (But I love them anyway…)

PC


“Moi, j’suis artiste, moi.”

–Cantana