maybe this is in the wrong forum but is anyone interested in selling a low d whistle im looking to spend around a 100 bucks
You’ll get a lot more replies with actual inquiries rather than sarcastic remarks if you post something like this in the Whistle Forum, just for future edification 
I have a New Range Chieftain Low D by Phil Hardy that I’ve played for years & has seen lots of use, but is still in fine condition; I recently re-greased the tuning cork on the slide. It’s a magnificent whistle - easy to play, smooth, easy action, beautiful low end, beatufiully-in tune, really, the standard by which any/every basic low D should be judged. Various folks have tried it and agree with me, including Kevin Crawford of Lunasa. Only reason I’d be interested in selling is because I also have one of Phil’s Kerry Pro low D’s that I love even better than it 
I’d be willing to let it go for $185.
For 100 bucks, i recomment the Syn. You will probably have to PM or email him directly to get one. Dixon is OK too, but soft. Howard is good, probably just slightly over $100.
I actually just bought a Kerry low d specifically to work through pipe tunes. I paid $100 though just saw it at the whitsleshop.com or whatever it’s called for something like $80.
I don’t really like the sound of the soprano d (at least when I am playing) and like using pipers grip with the low d. For me at least, it’s much easier in my beginning piper state to work through tunes on a whistle (which I also cannot play very well) without worrying about working the bellows etc. The advantage is that I also get to learn the whistle. Kind of a two birds thing.
-Patrick
Good choice.
Royce
I have a Burke Low D aluminum pro I’d be willing to let go. (Just bought a hurdy-gurdy.) I checked his site and looks like they’re selling for $210 now new. I’d take $150.
Starr
A Howard low D goes for about $100 - and it’s made by a pipemaker, to boot. A very decent whistle for the money.
I’ve had one of the black Howard low Ds for a few years. I still don’t know what the fuss is. They don’t sound anywhere near as good as a flute, they’re difficult to cover the holes (half my fingers disappear into them), and they aren’t nearly as fun as a regular whistle to play.
djm
Umm, tastes differ?
I like mine. I’d agree it doesn’t sound like a flute, but it sounds good, and is far easier to play than a flute (much less demanding embouchure).
For the “disappearing fingers” problem, use . . . piper’s grip. No, you can’t finger-pad it the way you can a high whistle. I’d say the Howard is no harder to play than most other low D whistles, and gives a lot of whistle for the money.
“Fun to play” is an inponderable. I like playing mine, but I also like playing my high whistles, and (when my embouchure cooperates) the flute I’m teaching myself to play.
On the grand scale of things, the low D is one of the easiest wind instruments to pick up, though not as easy as high whistle or recorder. Certainly easier than flute, and way, way, easier the the pipes. 
I keep thinking I want to buy a practice set, then I hear you guys going on about the vagaries of reeds and reedmaking, the long delays in getting a set, chanters with tape on 'em to get them in tune . . . 
DCrom wrote:"I keep thinking I want to buy a practice set, then I hear you guys going on about the vagaries of reeds and reedmaking, the long delays in getting a set, chanters with tape on 'em to get them in tune . . . "
…that’s easily half of the fun of playing the U-pipes. I have a hunch that most of us would be absolutely lost if we didn’t have a thousand things wrong with our pipes to complain about. 
DCrom, you don’t play UPs because they’re fun. You play them because you have to. I have yet to find anything fun about UPs. They are something you struggle with for the rest of your life. Then you come on-line and find a bunch o’ freaks that are easily as wired as yourself and bitch and trade insults and obsess over the stupidest things or nothing at all and … gee, maybe this is kinda fun after all … 
djm
I have to agree with djm on the Howard low D. I recently changed it for an Overton low D and all my questions on “the low D” were solved. No problems anymore getting a nice tone in the second octave - and a second octave that is in tune, far less clogging of the embouchure whole, better intonation…
for me the Howard is to expensive for what it is. Maybe I just had bad luck and all the other Howard Low D’s are much much better, hopefully
I really can’t take anything you contribute here, if you can call what you do that, seriously. I’ve just found out you ran away from that drowning guy and only came back later after the shooting stopped. Then you weaseled out of 3 months of your National Guard service.
Royce
…oh, my.
Thanks, Royce. Yes, I agree my inputs are on a par with yours. All in fun, but I don’t seem to be able to match your capacity for insulting others. 
djm
P.S. We don’t have a National Guard. I was in Sea Cadets, though.
…that explains EVERYTHING.
That’s funny, I was in the Sea Cadets, and I don’t remember seeing you…
Royce
That’s cuz you guys gotta Navy. We got canoes.
djm
Yeah, I was just watching that War of 1812 program (programme for you Canadians or is that Canadiennes?) on Discovery Channel (not Canadian Discovery, mind you, which is dedicated to prairie marmots and the Space Shuttle arm or leading edges of certain aircraft and other things you guys have built and desperately need to remind yourselves of) and I’m still wondering if we can trust you guys…
And those Brits are still pretty suspect as well. They actually have a navy too. Hmm… Might have to take some pre-emptive action and sink those canoes before you strike.
Royce