My priorities have changed lately and I am going to liquidate my collection. I’m going to keep a few favorites. I have a lot of whistles, so I am going to sell them in waves. I’ll start with the ones I can part with most easily (for whatever reasons) and move onto ones I am more attached to in later waves. All of them play nicely (I already got rid of all the instruments I didn’t like). And a lot of them are, so far, duplicates in my collection. All are in like new or perfect condition (but some of the brass whistles may be slightly tarnished…I can get rid of that if the buyer wants), unless otherwise noted. Shipping will be $6 in the US and a whole lot more for international. Here’s the first wave.
Michael Copeland:
–High d phosphor bronze (looks like gold, lighter weight) … $270
–High Eb silver … $360
Glenn Schultz:
–Water Weasel D/Eb/C set … $120
–Water Weasel d … $65
Michael Burke:
–High d composite narrow bore … $90
–High d al pro … $100
–Brass pro d (brand new, but brass-in-mouth style)… $110
Paul Hayward - Silkstone:
–High d narrow bore alloy (quieter than the others) … $115
–High C alloy … $115
–2nd high C alloy …$115
Desi Seery:
–High D delrin … $140
Ok…that’s it for the first wave. Please e-mail me with any questions.
I have this mental image of whistle makers all over the world cringing and hustling to figure out how they’re going to pay off their lathes, mills, and CNC machines…
John
P.S. - if you’re going to be selling anything nice in Bb or especially Ab let me know now so I can start saving my milk money…
It will come to be known as The Great Crash of 2003… or perhaps The Crash to End All Crashes… or some such. The White House will want to know… Dale, I presume you are the liasion?
I have to wait on the cheaper ones, if there are any.
Jessie, much success with your whistle sale. Since you’re selling off more high-end whistles than most could entertain owning, could you post a few pictures for reference?
Wow, this is more whistles than i’ll ever see, and that’s just the ones you don’t like!
Good luck with the sale. First i thought it was sad to break such a collection, it should go to a museum of whistles (or of obsession!), but in fact, it’s much better if people can be playing them.
You could sell one per week on eBay and keep yourself entertained for years!
Is this considered a large collection in these places? I mean, i have a Water Weasel, a Burke, a Village Smithy and a couple of Hoovers, do this looks like Imelda’s shoe collection to me, but for all i know, most people here have even more.
It’s like looking at one of those displays of gallaxy superclusters, and a little red arrow pointing to Earth, that says “you’re here”. Mind boggling.
High D… high C… high… high… hmm–one mezzo? naaah… high… high…
Close call, but I’m safe.
Well, as long of course as the 2nd batch isn’t all low whistles.
Someone will have to figger out a Keynesian way out of this Great high whistles Bubble blast. Such a glutted market should bring Generation and Walton/Soodlum resolve to silver-plating their whistles (same price, of course) as their only way out…
Here I thought of the “Whistles of October” sale (to contrast Serpents “Whistles of Mass Destruction”), but it looks like the whistle market has been nuked. So far the undisputed one has been unavailable for comment while he celebrates his 1000th posting.
Still, hubby think my Whoa is out of control.
