Mystery Whistle For June

Whistle
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Dale:

I currently own a variety of whistles 1) Howard Low C, 2) Chieftain D, 3) Alba D, 4)Clarke D, 5) Walton Little Black Whistle D, 6) Susato Low D and then this unknown whistle. I have attached a picture, but will try describe it. It is black, 22.5" in length from beak to end. It breaks down into three pieces..mouth piece, then slightly after G. It is made of a heavy black poly material. The sound is fantastic. It is tunable and has a brass insert where the mouth piece fits the body. At first it looked like a Bingamon, but I wrote Daniel and he said he has never produced a whistle with a brass insert. Any clarity to who produced this whistle would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Keith

Here are the photos. Keith says there are no markings of any kind. He purchased it from another individual who didn’t know who made it. Of course, I know EXACTLY who made it–I’m just testing all of you.


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http://www.jazzwhistle.com :confused:


Not exactly like this, but maybe they have changed their design and not updated the site? The windway looks sorta like this one.

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Hmm… One-off or prototype from Burke?
2) O’Riordan?
3) not Dixon?

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Looks like a Calmont, as sold on eBay.

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I’m fairly certain that’s one of Bryan Poe’s whistles. Bryan sent me a prototype, asking for suggestions. It is exactly like the one pictured in every detail except for the extra joint.

Best wishes,
Jerry

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Ah yes, that’s what I meant! I remembered I had seen it on eBay…just got which one it was wrong in my memory.

:slight_smile:

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Looks like a Poe to me too, although there could be others using the same method.

Loren

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Thanks. I’ve not seen one of Bryan Poe’s whistles. I’ve emailed Bryan to see if he can ID it as his, or not.

Dale

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Ok Guy’s and Gals:

THINK! Who could have made this delightful instrument? Dale I am almost tempted to send to you for a “TEST” play only. I think you would agree after you played it that it rivals some top of the line whistles. But first things first…who made it…speak up!

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I’ll take a wild stab at it. Doug Tipple made it.

Ok, I made a guess, do I win a prize if I get it right?
:slight_smile:

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Davy Spillane? :wink: :stuck_out_tongue:

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http://www.jazzwhistle.com/photos/photo%20album/whistles/pages/IMG_3230_jpg.htm

You might be right, follow this link. They have a whistle with a brass insert for the tuning slide. The black surface could be anodized aluminum.

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Daniel_Bingamon:

follow this link

Wow! There’s some very fancy looking instruments with good machining at that link. I’d definately like to hear some clean sound files of those :smiley:

Would you happen to know where I could hear one…or two?

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Isn’t that the company who had a main page that said their objective was to make the finest whistles in the world, and that each one was made from 9 seperate parts? If you ask me (since I make whistles) the more pieces a whistle has, the more complicated/expensive they are to make, and the harder it is to identify a problem… I agree they are nice looking whistles, but I think the price tag (if I remember correctly) is somewhere in ther $250 range… A 'lil steep. I’ll be happy to make ya one that looks just like it for less, and with no Anodizing :slight_smile: Money upfront of course so i can buy the stuff :slight_smile:
Cy

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I appreciate everyone who has tried to help locate the marker of this instrument. Thanks

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I retract my comments about this possibly being the whistle in question. This comes from reading the description of the whistle again. The statement “black poly” clearly eliminates these whistles since they are most assuradly aluminum in composition.

Didn’t Poe respond to anyone that may have contacted him about this topic?

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Has anyone had any luck identifying this whistle of mine. If so, please let me know…Thanks