Looking for odd-key whistles

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Hi–
If anyone has any strange key whistles they want to unload, I’m in the market to buy. I’m looking for stuff in Eastern European (like Hungarian) or Middle East keys, or even Oriental stuff. I may also be interested in other whistle-like (i.e. end-blown) instruments from other cultures, same general areas.

You can contact me via PM. Thanks!

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You might try Ronaldo Reyburn. He makes some wierd keys along those lines. Also, I think Colin Goldie has done some such as well.

Doc

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I make a whistle in the Ahava Rabba mode, which is used in Klezmer music.
http://tinwhistles.us

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Daniel, that AR file was great!
is it straight playing or were there cross fingerings needed?

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Just curious…are you Hungarian? Do you own a Duda?

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Assuming that you’ve just been listening to the same file that turned me on to Daniel’s Ahava Rabba, that’s straight playing with a little slurring if I remember rightly. Importantly, the scale you hear is the scale you get. Since I bought mine about 6 months ago, Daniel has improved the body design and promised to send me a new body with my next order (full details soon Daniel :blush: ). On the one I currently have, I need to use my right pinky instead of ring finger and I need to employ piper fingering in a couple of unusual places. But really it was very easy to adapt to and is wonderful for jamming. The new bodies might make this remark obsolete. Because of the quick and frequent changes of mode in klezmer music, it is hard to play on a non-chromatic instrument, but if you are recording or playing live with another whistler, these whistles sound fine and would do the job nicely.

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Thank you for kind remarks. That’s right, no cross-fingering needed to do this mode. I recently sent a AR High-D with a Bell note of B and seven holes to Christian Dawid in Germany of the Klezmer group ‘Khupe’. He needed the extra notes that are needed in a lot of Klezmer tunes.

I used the pinky on that bottom hole as well. The High-D with the C Bell note whistle has comfortable fingering.

If you need any weird keys, no problem - even if were F# minor!