http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/TIN-PENNY-WHISTLE-/260773096286?pt=UK_Woodwind_Instruments&hash=item3cb749ab5e
Someone please enlighten me…
Re-branded Generation. Marketing ploy from the eighties.
Thanks 
Don’t know. The head looks exactly like a Generation, with the characteristic ridge and the bump on the blade. A Clare bump is smaller, and the ridge larger.
Added: Oops, I crossed with Mr. G. At least I was right.
The photo on ebay is a bit misleading , colour balance wise. I have only ever seen nickel ones.
Are those Mr Galway’s teeth marks?
That’s SIR James, to you. He’s a royal flautist; we’re all just commoner fluters and whistlers.
I don’t think he’s a royal is he? As far as I’m aware, he’s a commoner just like me and, presumably, you. He is, of course, a knight and, as they say, once a knight is enough.
Yes, being American, I’m not as clear on royal bloodlines, primageniture and all that stuff. So he’s just a dime-a-dozen commoner knight? Feh–well then, he’s still Jimmy to me. Carry on…
“Primogeniture”.
Terribly important this stuff.
As in: “Oh, I say, you were born first? Well that’s … primo!”
But the “o”, don’t you know? Signifies the male. Can’t very well be anything else, can it? What?
Not that I like disagreeing with you Ben, but I am not so sure that that is correct, etymologically speaking. See http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=primogeniture. Sure, the term has been used to indicate inheritance by the first born son, but it has also been used to inndicate inheritance by the first born of either gender. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primogeniture.
What this has to do with whistles is anybody’s guess… still it is a lazy Sunday
“Has been used” being the operative term. It’s not correct so to use it. The Oxford English Dictionary points out that the word does not come from primus + genitus, but is, properly, from the two separate words in the phrase “primo genitus”. I think (though I can’t find anywhere to check) that “primo” is the masculine form of that word in Latin. Is not the feminine form “prima”, as in “prima facie”? Anyway, if I’m right, that phrase would mean the first born son, properly speaking. But, quite apart from that, in royal terminology, the term has always been used to mean the right of succession of the first born son, and that is precisely the controversy which is now being argued about. I’m not quite sure why, since Charles would be the heir to the throne as first born child of Elizabeth even if the rule of primogeniture was ignored (or changed). Presumably people are arguing about it out of a sense of ‘fairness’ to Anne, in the event that Charles pre-deceases her.
Right. I’m off to a session (hopefully). See ya later. 
Anyway, I was trying to be satirical … 
I don’t know …I’m pretty sure Louis Prima was a dude.
I have a Galway whistle… I like it quite a bit. The head is a tad larger than any Gen I’ve had - a rather loose fit on any standard tube, including the one it came with. Anyway, it turns out he was good friends with my girlfriend’s grandparents, her grandfather also being a flautist and a fan with a big house - big enough to put James up in many times when he was here in the States.
How often do you meet a girl in her late thrities who knows who James Galway was anyway?
Yeah, she’s definitely a keeper…
Now if I could just get her to put down that didgeridoo and trade her violin (or preferably, the didgeridoo) for a true fiddle …