Hello, I’m looking for a sweet sound, warm and not loud whistle… less than 200€.. do you know which one like that?
Thanks
Hello, I’m looking for a sweet sound, warm and not loud whistle… less than 200€.. do you know which one like that?
Thanks
check out the mack hoover brass whistles sounds like what your looking for
" These whistles have a soft, sweet tone and are perfect for playing at a lower volume. They reach the second octave notes very easily, and will usually even play a number of notes into the third octave."
That’s exactly what I want.
Someone has tried it? Is it really easy to reach the second octave? I want one that require not very much pressure to reach de 2nd octave.
I just got an O’Brien C with standard windway with delrin fipple and that is a doddle to go into the second and third octves, without hardly any increase in volume through the second octave. It does start to go up in volume in the third octave though, but i haven’t met any music that takes me up there yet.
Overall it’s fairly quite with a nice clear sound, very little back pressure throughout and doesn’t take much air to play it.
David usually plates his whistles in nickel, but you can ask him to leave parts or all of it in copper if you like.
It is a fairly heavy whistle, but you soon get used to it.
Certainly worth every penny in my book.
I think either Burke or Hoover would fit your needs nicely.
I have both and love them. And yes, both makes of whistle will play pretty easily into the third octave.
I also have an O’Brien and love it. Doesn’t have much of a third octave but sounds pretty darn good in the standard 2-octave range.
–James
The Burkes, Hoovers and Laughing Whistles I’ve tried have all hit the 2nd octave pretty easily, are pretty sweet, and easily less than 200 euro.
I would say a Burke Narrow Bore Brass or Composite (Aluminum is brighter) or a Dixon Plastic. From my experience with Mack’s whistles I could not get the second octave very easily and that was when I was mostly playing an Alba which takes lots of air..
We have tried many different makers of whistles over the last couple of years. The absolutely sweetest sounding whistle we have is a wooden whistle by Simon Styles (Weston Whistles - http://www.westonwhistles.co.uk/ ) It is VERY easy to play. He makes them in High C and D and has been working on a tunable model.
For a budget option that is sweet, soft and warm I recommend Tony Dixon’s ABS/aluminium or ABS/brass tunable whistles. The mouth pieces are plastic with a built in brass tuning slide and the body tubes are very substantial aluminium alloy or brass.
Mr D seems to do the aluminium bodied version in almost as many keys as Generation do their whistles! I have the D and C models and I love them.
For playing at the high end, this is the one. But they require so little breath. It take some getting used to.
I got a Tony Dixon high D brass…it is really super…easy to get to the high octave, plays in tune, mellow with a lovely sound and very sensibly priced. Les.