Hello everyone.
I’ve been playing tin whistle for years and had no idea all this stuff was out in the world!!!
So now I can ask the question that has been driving me nuts for years. --Where can I find a decent whistle. I’ve played most of the production line versions (available in UK and Australia). Can someone point me to contacts for the real McCoy… Glenn Schultz is a name I’ve come across (and only since I found the Chiff and Fipple!)
cheers
colin
Good gosh. Lotsa quality whistles out there. What do you want to spend? It would take a pretty long post to name them all, and there are several I don’t know of.
Hi Valkeda!
The Chiff & Fipple guide to expensive whistles is the “Whistle Yellow Pages” of who’s who is the quality whistle making business. I haven’t read a review there that didn’t seem right on track with my experience.
Welcome, Valkelda
What SirNick perhaps neglected to mention* is how to get to the whistle guide. Its one of the many helpful features on the main Chiff and Fipple Website. Just click on the “Main Website” link at the top of this page to go there.
* What can you expect from a headless ghost, anyway?
Howdy and welcome. There are a billion posts here about the “best” whistle. Have fun.
Hell fire!
Faster than a speeding bullet… thanks everyone.
Vomitbunny…
I’ve tried pills. Whistles work better. $200…? I have an Overton low D that cost me somewhere around that. Do I dare admit I wasn’t that impressed. Span’s too big, condenses if the temperature changes and sounds as if you’re playing under water, and (I found) tone’s a bit woolly. Maybe it’s the bad workman syndrome.
thanks again everyone
cheers
me
Welcome
And if you only had one name it couldn’t be a better one!! The Thin Weasel is a quite exceptional whistle IMO.
Hmm..Glen Schultz seems to ring a bell with google. I see by the third hit that Chiff&Fipple has heard of him as well.
I thought Wombat would chime in, but since it’s past his bedtime…
I’ll be the one to advice Australian whistles.
Buying locally, you can reach the manufacturer easily, get an instrument revoiced or fixed.
Also, you skip the hazards of international shipment and customs.
Finally, in high-end whistles it’s hard to go wrong with M. Grinter’s, whether high or low. They look superb, they play superbly. Also, I understand they cost much less when bought locally.
With less of a waiting list, and of a list price, too, but not a bad reputation for that matter, there’s also SYN whistles