Not my auction but too cute for words…
http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1518351870
Makes a Generation High-G look like a soda can!
Are you talking about an old-time Generation high-G or a modern one with a plastic fipple.
Actually, it bears a remarkable resemblance to the antique Generation high G, one of which is among my favorite whistles. It doesn’t have the piercingly high sharpness of the modern ones and is a whistle I’d recommend to anyone lucky enough to find one.
From the look of this one, I suspect it’d be worth the risk - you could come up with an excellent instrument. It is a G whistle, by the way, whatever the seller says.
(Added later)
Eskin - Congratulations on winning the whistle. I decided to stay out of it since another C&F’er was after it, but I’d sure love to hear your assessment of how it plays once it comes.
Nothing salves a weary soul like a cheap whistle.
[ This Message was edited by: Chuck_Clark on 2002-03-02 18:05 ]
high G? Are you sure that little bitty ole thing isn’t a high A???
Good grief. You’d have to have really small fingers to play thing thing. It looks like it was made for a small child..
Actually, the guy in the photo (hand holding whistle) had big hands. I have smallish hands, albeit rather thick fingers, and have no trouble at all playing one that is virtually identical to it, nor would a woman or child. OTOH, I have trouble with most Low Ds.
That little thing was nearly enough to make me break my vow of no new whistles for 3 months. Glad to know that one of ‘us’ got it, too, so we can hear what its like.
Like I said, I have a Generation that’s almost identical to it, and it’s my favorite non-D whistle. They come along so rarely because of their age and because they really don’t seem to have been sold outside Britain. I really know how costly WhOA can be, but especially when you see one in that good a condition with no more than a couple of minor dents or a few scratches, I think some vows should be broken, or at least furloughed for a couple of days.
The one downside is the lead fipple plug. Even though I doubt you’d get enough lead exposure to trouble you, I did coat the exposed lead surfaces of mine with 3 coats of my wife’s nail polish. I used some light pink or beige shade and the coated lead sorta resembles Mack Hoover’s corian plugs.
Y’know, it just struck me that maybe why these old whistles are so good is that in metal, guage and cut, they’re very much like Mack’s new brass whistles. Not like the modern thin-walled and plastic fippled ones. Or that Mack’s are so good because they’re like these old guys.
That whistle looks so much like an ‘F’ at 8 1/2" long by G Steel & Co UK that I bought cheap as unplayable from ebay. Except that mine hasn’t got the plate and is stamped with the name.The back of the mouthpiece has been replaced with a lump of lead solder, tastes disgusting and is probably poisonous. It also leaks but the brass is lovely and somehow I hope to get the lead lump removed and a new piece put in. If I put the whole end into my mouth then blocking the leak it has a lovely sound.