That sounds like a great tune name “One Wife is Enough for Me”
I agree. However, I would be willing to consider a second if she was a red-headed nymphomaniac who was best friends with O’Riordan and heiress to a chain of liquor stores…
Dave
Whistle Obsession! try this
I play three whistles, A Gen Bb Nickel and Dixon Polymer D
and Dixon Alum D. I also try a Dixon 3 piece Rosewood Flute.
Anyway I play these whistles and think well not bad for the money.
They are at least in tune but tone can be quite bland.
So I become fairly proficient but I’m still a bit frustrated with the sound
Is it me or is it the whistle. So to investigate a bit further before buying every whistle under the sun, I decide to record myself to hear back the kinda sound I’m making. Okay, buy a decent 4 track recorder and mic
approx £700.00.
Spend some time recording and after some listening, decide that it’s both me and whistle. Next thing is after playing some more, I change my mind so I upgrade recorder and mic again cos they are better quality. another £700-£800 I keep recording and playing and change my mind again thinking it’s my playing and tone that’s crap. I read some tips on recording and find out I need more gear like compressors, gates, limiters and FX. So there goes another £400. I use that stuff and still I ain’t satisfied. I go back and read some more about recording and finally it clicked!, I found out about bit rates and sampling frequencies. I realised that 16 bit sampling at 44.1 kh wasn’t good enough for me. So there goes another £1000 to buy another professional recording machine that will record at 24 bit sampling at 44.1, 48 / 96 kh. So now that I know I will get a true reflection of my sound, I think I’m gonna have to invest some more in some quality whistles to match the quality of the recording gear. Funny thing is, my wife ain’t too happy about this and I don’t understand why!, I don’t think £3000 is much of an obsession for whistle playing.
Cheers
pkev
So, has anyone started a Whistle Addict Anonymous group yet? 
I think WhOA, like many diseases, develops in stages. I like to think of my first stage as IBF(Inital Buying Frenzy) it was marked by buying many types of mid and low price whistles. I think there is a new stage I am entering - buying fewer numbers but more expensive whistles. I don’t know what this stage is called.
Hmmm, I guess I’m still in the first stage. So, that means it will soon progress!! 
“Just say no [thank you].”
- Nancy Reagan
“Hi, my name is annie, and I am a whistleholic…”
And my name is CRC and I haven’t bought a whistle in 2 weeks.
I told wifie that I was saving for a Sweet Heart, that didnt go over well at all until I explained that it was a really good whistle, me thinks she is convinced. But dont know if Im in need of treatment yet, my exposure is limited and havent had the time to record myself. I am normal - yes? But to be honest Ive bought 5 whistles so far and gave two away to justify buying another.
Hi my name is Freddo Im a whistleholic. 
Yeah, just the other day I noticed 3 cracks in the mouthpiece of my Walton. So, I was thinking of buying a few more whistles just to replace the cracked one. (Not that it was my favorite whistle. ) You know just to ease the pain from my terrible loss. 
And so begins the slide down that steep and slippery slope… mwuhahahaaaaaa!
Yes, but I really wish I was in the second stage of WhOA instead of the first.
My own pathetic story:
I started whistleplaying with a Walton’s starter kit (bless 'em) but in time neither me nor the family could stand the untweaked Walton’s sound. So I went to a Clarke original, which kept me satisfied for several months. Then, drooling onto my keyboard, I ordered a Burke brass session. Ooooooh!
“This is my last whistle,” I thought.
But WHOA had entered my bloodstream.
In an effort to avoid buying more expensive whistles, I began ordering more cheapies. A Sweetone, a Clarke original in C, a coupla Clarkes for my music teacher, a Generation D in nickel…
Finally my wife made me order my second Burke–an aluminum in C–to keep me from constantly buying cheaper stuff.
I am still waiting for that one, and I KNOW that when it arrives, it will be my LAST whistle…
Because I can quit anytime I WANT!!
That Burke C will cure any further need for a great C, Kelly. 
We all think that the next whistle we buy is the last. Until of course, you just have to get that next one.
I remember when I bought my Burke DAN and told my friends “see this? I’ts the last D whistle I’ll ever need to buy”.
If memory serves, I’ve purchased at least three or four other D’s since then, as well as several in other keys.
I think that’s an important part of the “second stage”(for me anyways). When you buy your first one or two high end whistles, you tell yourself “well, this is it. I won’t need to buy anymore whistles in the key of ___ now that I’ve got this little treasure”. You still constantly buy cheapies, tweaking them to get that authentic “Irish” sound out of the Generations and Feadogs. This, of corse, in addition to the bucketload of the Clarkes, Oaks, Clares, Acorns, etc. that you already own. Then you find yourself on C&F, reading about how awesome someone’s Overton D sounds and you can’t help but wonder if it’s better sounding than your Chieftain D or Burke D… or maybe it’s not better, but different. “Yeah, it’s different! I might need a ‘different’ sound for some tunes. I better get me one of them too”! Eventually you’re putting in the big bucks for an Abell, selling a couple of your old high-enders to fund it. You say “this is it, the last one I’ll ever buy”. A while later you get nostailgic when thinking about that old brass Burke D you once had. “Maybe I should get another one, for old time’s sake”?
Eventually you will die. Your whistle collection will be passed on perhaps to a child or grandchild. They won’t know what to do with them and they will sit in a closet for years. Your Overtons, Chieftains and the like were found and used by some crazy aunt to make a windchime for her back porch. Then, one day, someone will see an ebay listing for one of your plain old original Clarkes, a little rusted, dented in a few places and the branded markings have long since faded. The item description will read something like this:
“Vintage European six-holed flute, a must-have for any collector or music enthusiast.”
I’ll have my whistles burried with me… unless of course the kids want 'em…
Oh, if you raise them correctly they’ll be masters of the whistle long before you’re gone
Straycat,
Thanks for that very depressing, hilarious, and totally true depiction of my whistling future!!
What do we call the point where one realizes he has so many whistles
that he never plays several of them, so decides it’s time to pare down
the collection to recoup the cost of his flute? I’m on the cusp of that,
the arse-end of WHOA