Hi everyone! I am sorry I don’t get to post much, but that will change soon. I have been looking for a new doctor to do telephone consultations for one of my new sites and I have been sooo busy.
Also, I lost two very important whistles I had in my backpack that I accidentally left in my unlocked car. Anyone ever had someone steal out of your car during the night? BLAHHHHH! It makes me depressed. They took my backpack and all the change I had in my ashtray, and my necklaces around my rearview mirror. Hmmmm… I am sure it was just some kid trying to survive or something and I feel sorry for them to have to risk themselves to do such a scary thing in the night. (it’s gotta be scary)
Anyway, I am not worried about the money or anything… It is my Tinwhistles!!! One of those whistles was a gift to me from a psychic. Well, needless to say, I ain’t got a whistle now, and I have never ordered one online, but I am really interested in the ones that have the “brackets” on them over the holes. But I am also interested in the “regular”. I am kinda goin through withdrawl. Can anyone help? Thanks
Bummer situation though. My wife and I had one of our cars broken into during a move. Among other things, they took a box that contained our our wedding album.
For the really, really short term, I’d find a music shop nearby. Most will have at least a piddling selection of cheap whistles (Clarke, Sweetone or Generation). That should help get rid of the worst of the withdrawal shakes.
Beyond that, I’ve always had good dealings with the Whistle Shop.
I wondered about ‘brackets’ myself. do you mean the raised ridge that you find on some of the flutophone sort of things that make it easier to feel the holes? There are VERY few true whistles with anything like that.
As far as I can tell, you can’t even put something like that on an off the shelf whistle, because changing the depth of the tonehole (I think this is called a chimney) changes the pitch.
I’d go back to your friend and see if they know where the instrument is, or where to find another.
Oh, also try Lark in the Morning, and Elderly Music which have a HUGE variety of endblown fipple flute things other than what is discussed here as a whistle.
Actually I was looking for one like the pic below. Believe it or not, I always thought a TinWhistle came without the keyed holes and I went a long time thinking that. Hmmmmm… The tinwhistle just keeps “progressing” does it not?
Which raises the question of why the psychic gave him the whistle in the first place - did he know it was going to be stolen and is trying to torment DocTinWhistle?
I think the psychic DID know all along it was to be stolen and gave him the whistle to look like a great person. Then, in the blackness of the night, the psychic passed by Doc’s car on the evening he knew Doc would forget to lock it. Of course, where there’s one whistle, there’s another closeby due to the WHOA factor, so the psychic knew he would get at least one or 2 whistles in addition to his/her initial whistle. That’s how the psychic satiates his/her own WHOA syndrome without spending one red cent and still looks like the hero/heroine!
Boy, I’d better just go to bed before I hurt myself.
I’d better just go to bed before I hurt myself.