I saw a whistle on the Sweehheart Flute Co. site. Here is the link:
http://www.sweetheartflute.com/whistles.html
Does anyone know anything about these whistles?
thanks for the info.
John
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That’s interesting…
Nope, never heard of that before, but it is keyed very much like my 19th-century piccolo–at least the piccolo has keys in those positions, plus maybe another one or two (I haven’t located it in a while, so I can’t do a comparison).
M
I’ve played Ralph Sweet’s keyed whistles. I was surprised that the keys didn’t get in my way after a few minutes. Frankly, the extra cost wasn’t worth it to me. I preferred the half holing I was doing already.
I have a Sweetheart blackwood that I like fairly well, but given the choice the new style Sweetheart is quite a head and shoulders above the old. I don’t think he’s making them in blackwood yet, but you might ask him.
Just in case, here’s a luthier which does both wood flutes and whistles (and bombardes…), in ebony, various exotic hardwoods, or boxwood.
His whistles ar low (down from G?), cylindrical bore.
The interesting point he will key them at will, and an unkeyed instrument can be returned later for extra keying. All keys silver.
I’ve seen recently a superb blackwood “Irish” flute of his, tuned in D, with a “C extension”, i.e. it plays the D scale but has 2 open holes for bottom C and C#. My friend who plays it will eventually get these keyed if he really lacks those bottom notes for some tunes. Right now, they’re just unreachable…
Prices of his whistles are moderate considering finish and woods. I think he charges around € 150 per key.
Hervé Jezequel
Bretaudis
56 620 Pont Scorff, FRANCE
Tel: +33 2 97 32 65 94
Fax: +33 2 97 32 62 58
Sorry, no web page I know of.
[ This Message was edited by: Zubivka on 2002-12-27 05:06 ]