Like the topic title says, anyone know any makers making a good low C# whistle? I have a C# ‘high’ whistle I love to use when soloing, it’s such a nice sounding key, but I’d be interested in picking up a low C# as well.
Thanks!
An incomplete list, and in no particular order:
Goldie: http://www.colingoldie.de/whistles.html
Bracker: http://music.bracker.co/Whistles/Low_Db_Whistles
Burke: http://www.burkewhistles.com/home.php?cat=278
Susato: http://www.susato.com/konakart/Pennywhistles/Kildare/1_144_-1_71.do
These are not endorsements; I’ve never played a low C#/Db myself–though I was impressed by the Bracker low D.
You know, you really should be making your own whistles by now. Give it a try. It’s not addictive or anything like that. 
Feadoggie
If you’re talking to me, I have. Lots of whistles, transverse flutes, shakuhachi, tabor pipes, renaissance flutes, a beachball smallpipe. All my friends and family look at me funny now.
Addictive? Hah! I can stop whenever I want to. 
Sorry, I was talking to the OP. I know you’re not addicted. 
Feadoggie
Thank you for the list stanton135! I guess I never looked close enough on the Burke website to see that they made them, kind of embarrassing on my part really 
As a young guy in high school, from about 2004-2007 I used to make whistles out of copper with hand turned wood fipples. I called my whistles ‘Firefly’, and actually made a fair go at selling them around town, at art fairs, etc. I developed my own patterns based off of whistles that I liked, and made the keys of high G (freaky high G, if you know what I mean), Eb, E, D, C#, C, and a handful of them in low G and low D. I was never as pleased with my low whistles, and I never really ‘perfected’ my design (although truth be told, I didn’t spend much time trying to, and the smaller whistles always drew more interest). I probably made over 200 instruments in that time which I either sold or gave away. I’ve got a handful of some of my ‘weird’ experimental whistles left; a chromatic channel keyed instrument, attempts at ‘register’ keys, a whistle with GHB fingerings, a try to make one you could play ‘on the knee’ like a Uilleann chanter, a telescopic whistle with 2 sets of holes and a mechanism so that you could have 2 different keys of whistle on one body (that actually worked okay!). I stopped making whistles when I went off to college, and never really picked it up again, I’m not quite sure why, but these days my time is devoted to making and restoring violins. Maybe I’ll take a crack at whistles again, and see if I can make a satisfactory low whistle.
If making a low whistle is too tricky, you could try making a C# body for a low D with a removable head…