Please help!! C/D whistle mixup...

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I am a bit embarassed by this, but I’ve had a bit of a mixup… :blush:
I sent a C whistle in Delrin out to a customer, who subsequently decided to return it. No problem: the whistle arrived OK.
In the meantime, someone apparently sent me a Delrin D back for a repair. I say apparently, because in the holiday rush, and an effort to get whistles out to people, I lost track of who sent me the D ( I know, will the owners please line up…). I know it’s an oldish one because it’s in a plaid case, and I ran out of that material a while back.
Wait, it gets worse… :blush: :blush:
Someone contacted me, asking if I had a C Delrin. Terrific, just so happens I have one ready to ship. The problem is, when I went to pack up that C, I found that it is GONE! :confused: The D remains in the shop. Now, I generally do repairs the very day I get them in and send them out the next day, so I’m thinking that I fixed the D (which is just fine), and then shipped the C back to the D owner. I would think that most whistlers would notice the difference, but a less experienced player might not-- my C and D differ only by about an inch.

Sooo… if I recently repaired a D whistle for anyone out there (since Thanksgiving) please check it and make sure it really is your D. The tuning slide on the C is engraved : PB
'04
C#1

Thanks, and please don’t flame me TOO much :frowning:

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Whew! Glad to see this mixup was with Delrin whistles (since I don’t have one of those on order). :wink:

Actually, I’m amazed this kind of thing doesn’t happen more often (and to every whistle maker).

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Ya think that one’s bad? Right now I have two nearly finished Hornbeam Ironwood whistles in my shop, and I’m not sure which one goes to who!! :laughing:

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Well, you’ve got a 50/50 chance. If you guess wrong, maybe they won’t notice. :smiley:

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I’ll gamely volunteer to adopt any left-overs, just to aleviate any confusion … :smiley:

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Well folks, ya can’t get any nicer than that. Willing to take in and care for someone else’s whistle, just out of the goodness of her own heart. The spirit of Christmas is alive and well! :laughing:

Paul: Just for clarity, I’ve got dibs on any spare ironwood whistles. :wink:

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Left-overs and spares??? Just give them all to me and start with a clean slate.