A family member disappeared about a year ago and he was an avid whistle player. We are just getting to selling his belongings including whistles, to help his son go to college. From looking around here and other places online, one of the whistles appears to be made by Glenn Schultz, but it looks like he usually used a stamp and did not engrave his signature. This one has the initials “gs” engraved on the mouth piece. Anyway… here is a picture (hopefully) below… or links to them. Unfortunately my camera takes terrible closeups…
Does anyone have a Glenn Schultz with engraved initials? If it is not one of his, any ideas to what this is? I will take more pictures when I get a hold of a better camera.
Looks like an early Schultz to me. He always had them in that neat little box. I’m sure one of the more experienced members can give you a definitive answer though.
Most definitely, but not a real early one. My 80’s vintage Schultz doesn’t have the raised rings.
Let me know if you have any problems with it, BTW. I’ll tweak Glenn’s whistles free of charge, you pay shipping both ways. I owe the man just about everything I know about whistles, and this is my way to at least partially repay that debt.
Sharon, out of curiosity, does your camera have a “macro” feature? (It’s usually the icon that looks like a little flower.) It makes a big difference for closeups when I remember to use it.
That whistle and box look exactly like mine but for the engraving; I have “G Schultz Oxford MI” cut into the wood just below the ring under the slide. Pretty neat to have his initials etched into the metal; among an accommodating and whimsical trade group, Glenn was first and foremost.
Definitely Glenn’s work in blackwood. There must have been a transitional period for Glenn. Mine is like PhilO’s with the info stamped on the wood but it also has the initials engraved in the metal. Box looks the same.
I’ll also give a shout out and endorsement to Paul Busman for his whistles and for his devotion to the craft. He gave my Schultz blackwood D a once over several months ago to tighten up the tuning slide and clean up the mouthpiece for the price of shipping alone. It is now a truly great instrument with no weaknesses (unless you just don’t like wood whistles).
Wow what a wonderful group of people! Thank you so much for your help! Katharine I was using the macro feature–but not correctly evidently kkrell, it is a pretty crazy story–he left town amid some horrible allegations and did not take a thing with him or tell a soul where he was going. We retrieved his things when he was being evicted and held on to them, and only recently found out the allegations were true. We know we will never see him again. His son really needs the money going off to college this year (his disappearance has been tough on him) so Maki, we are definitely putting it on the market. I was researching his whistles online, but just was not sure what we had. This seemed like a good place to ask. Boy was I right. No one else in the family plays the whistle. I’ll either list it here or on Etsy when I get a shop up. There are a probably 25 other whistles, but this was by far the nicest. Its sad, but I it sounds like it will be easy to find it a good home Thanks again everyone!
