Whew! Looks like your child’s college tuition is paid for, Jessie! If only I were rich I would help contribute to it.
Oh, shut up, Daniel. I’m sitting here wondering how I’m going to pay off my new Hurco CNC mill now…
(grumble…) 
serpent
By any chance, do you own a McGee flute?
I’m dying to know who got this one. Will the buyer please make himself or herself known? And either the buyer or Jessie give a sound clip? 
Holy Wow!
That’s quite a collection!
Thank you Jessie, for sharing this photo…
Now when my wife thinks I have too many whistles I can just show her this picture. 
Scott
Well, I was just asking because I thought the amount of post pollution coming from you was getting dangerously high, and seeing many of your senseless posts in so many different threads is slowly getting on my nerve, but that’s just my opinion and you have the right to do whatever you want, I’m just surprised that some of your posts/threads havent been moderated so far.
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Well, I was just asking because I thought the amount of post pollution coming from you was getting dangerously high, and seeing many of your senseless posts in so many different threads is slowly getting on my nerve, but that’s just my opinion and you have the right to do whatever you want, I’m just surprised that some of your posts/threads havent been moderated so far.
I haven’t been vulgar or out of bounds at all, just prolific. I do understand what you’re saying, though. That kind of thing (posts everywhere) inadvertantly happens when you’ve been awake forever and have basically not moved from the computer in 23 hours. Gotta stop that.
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Sniff, Jessie, it’s the end of an era…
Luckily (for me), like Zubivka I am safe so far, but I await the next installment of the sale with bated breath - I can’t wait to see what low whistles and flutes you are putting up for sale…
Jens
Good God. Did you buy all of these within a week of becoming pregnant, by any chance? I was a good little fetus and simply made my mother eat as much pickled cauliflower as possible…
By my calculations you’ve listed $6770 in WHISTLES! Ack, is this a personal record for this board? Maybe y’all could get a poll going, in $500 increments.
But then I’ve spent about $350 on the things myself, not counting the one I made out of an elder branch.
And I’ve spent $20000 on uilleann pipes…
Lucky thing I inherited all that Mobile oil stock!
Quiz:
just supposing the picture back thar î is comprehensive enough,
which whistles get saved from the Great Deportation and see the child grow up?
Hey Jessie,
Has Royce put in a bid for any of those big ticket items yet? 
Jerry, I don’t have a McGee. I never did, but I sold one for a friend.
Everyone who is e-mailing to ask to buy other things in my collection, please refrain. This stuff is what’s for sale now. Some of the whistles in later waves will go through eBay, and I will post links here.
Kevin, no I didn’t buy any of these recently. I have been collecting for about 5 years, as many C&F veterans know. Back before I’d answered the same questions a hundred times, I was very active in the on-topic posts. They just aren’t as interesting to me anymore…I am somewhat jaded, I guess. Not bitter, but bored with it, especially since my current and future husband doesn’t play Irish music. I still play in the living room, and he loves the sound of the flute. I also record whistle tracks for his non-Irish recordings, so I need at least one in every key and a couple of backups in a couple of keys, but the collection doesn’t hold my interest anymore.
Zub, good question! I will never sell my beloved Abell Madagascar rosewood d whistle, C Copeland whistle that I got from Loren, silver nontunable d whistle that Mike Copeland gave me, one magical A Copeland, Burke composite F, Abell high f, Cillian O’Briain F# whistle (because it’s the only F# whistle I have), one of each (either Copeland, O’Riordan, Sindt, or Burke of all other keys I haven’t mentioned), Powell blackwood flute, Olwell no-metal boxwood flute, flutes/fifes in some other keys (Healy, Sweet and Olwell bamboo). Maybe I’ll decide to keep more. But as of now, I have enough whistles and flutes to finance most of a house in a rural area (but I don’t need one) or about 6 or 7 decent new cars (thank goodness for the instruments database created by my ex-husband!). It’s ridiculous. I don’t need them anymore.
Have these guy’s met???
Yes, they share a body and a mind!
I wanted to distinguish him from my ex-husband, but I felt that just calling him “current husband” would sound temporary.
Ah, Jessie. . .you don’t have to qualify him to anyone. . . why don’t you just call him your husband? The other one (the old model?) can simply be the ex.
How about: “The ‘Mother’ of all crashes”? 
(double entendre intended)
I am still in dumb-struck awe Jessie. 
big sigh Ah Jessie… if only I had money… (the thought of me and at least half of everybody else around ths board )
All the same though, it is fun to see what whistles you are selling. Amazing collection! I can understand where it could just get to be to much and the desire to cut back would manifest itself. Glad that you are at least keeping some of them… at least one of each key and not completely liquidating every last one. The idea of the JessieK suddenly getting rid of every single whistle she owns would just be wierd… like upsetting the natural balance of whistledom or something. Almost like a tiger suddenly pulling off all it’s stripes saying… “Uh, I don’t think I want these anymore”. Glad to hear you aren’t completly disappearing from the whistle world… you’d be missed if you did. Happy selling!
Sara
You can just hand over that Hurco anytime you’ve decided you have no use for it anymore serp!