On eBay:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2536551200&category=10183
I see that the seller also has a very similar looking ‘A’ whistle for sale.Although I haven’t actually seen one ‘in the flesh’,these look like the Indian made ‘Asaker’ whistles to me.Any ‘Asaker’ owners care to comment/confirm my suggestion?
I had a set of these whistles a year or so ago. They were fun enough to play around with but the tuning was horrible. I eventually gave them all away. Do a search for ‘asarkar’ and you’ll get all the info you need.
Frank
The picture’s even worse than usual, but it does seem to be one of the Indian (Pakistani?) cheapies. A lot of them change hands on eBay though I’ve never seen them sold anywhere else.
Cheers Frank,
I thought my spelling might be a bit awry!-I should have done a check before posting.
Song of the Sea sells these, too, I believe.
I played the low D. Not bad, not great. It is worth paying a little more for a better whistle, though it is also kind of neat to see cheapie low whistles, even if they are less pleasant to play than many cheapie high whistles.
-Patrick
The picture’s even worse than usual, but it does seem to be one of the Indian (Pakistani?) cheapies. A lot of them change hands on eBay though I’ve never seen them sold anywhere else.
Ok. That all makes sense. I used to have one of these in a low D, and the bottom few notes were very touchy and unstable, like playing a bass recorder (which is terribly difficult). Also scale degrees 3 and 4 (F# and G) were alarmingly out of tune. Difficult stretch as well. On the positive side, it was cheap, and had a certain charm in its breathy tone, and maybe some guy in India fed his family for a day because I bought it.