So I have a few pictures of Syn Whistles, and I thought I could post them on my very own ftp site, but it isn’t working… so are there any web sites to which I could post photos for absolutely no money or involvement of credit cards?
ok here are a bunch of photos of my Syns
Looks like an aluminum Sindt for the most part.
I wouldn’t know. I can’t afford a Sindt.
The Sindt headpiece is quite a bit more refined than the Syn that I’ve seen, though it does look like Syn has cleaned up his fingerholes a bit from the one I had. Still not crazy about the tone/playability of mine, but I’m told it was an earlier model. Mr. Syn was kind enough to offer to fix or replace it in his defence. 
My Syn is one of the easiest whistles to play i know. The sound is somewhat mellow, so although it’s loud it won’t stand out in a session or irritate people at home too much. Sound almost reminds me or a low whistle, actually. The finish was high gloss – i dulled it with steel wool because it annoyed me. The whistle is obviously handmade but not rough and the fingerholes are cut nicely. I think it’s an unbelievable value for the price; i’d expect it to cost 3-4x more.
Are the whistles keys polished into the barrells? That looks pretty interesting.
www.photobucket.com is one of the simplest. It’s what I use.
P.S. Pretty whistles.
I have an early Syn, as well as his new revised model.
I liked the early design a lot but a few folks found them challenging to play due to the high backpressure and high resistance, particularly in the 2nd octave.
His latest design is a lot of whistle for the money. It plays easily over a two octave range, tone is pure, octaves are well balanced, and the intonation is good. Volume is moderately loud, softer and much easier to control than a Susato.
–James
Orders of magnitude less annoying than a Susato.
I’ve got to do without mine fora while to get some more tone bodies. All the way back to aulstralia…poor little whistle.
I’d hate to even think what kind of backpressure must have been present on those first to call the new ones easy to play…
The D anyway has quite a bit of backpressure above the E or so in the second octave. (not bad, but compared to my Waltons’ Mellow and Guinness, my Clarke Orig (actually Victorian Games) and my Acorn, as well as surrounding whistles in Eb, E, and C the back pressure is high.)
It is actually comparable (to me) to my Kerry Pro. I could be wrong though, as I haven’t sent an inordinate amount of time with it.
Anyway, the A has got to be one of those whistles that is described as needing only to breath into it to make a sound.
Oh yeah–> I brought it to the session, and it cuts through at least as good (and I think better) than my Walton’s Mellow. But there is a tendency for the tone to be “pure” (like my one plastic sop recorder, although I haven’t direct compared them so…) as opposed to Walton-y
When i say the Syn is aysy to play i mean that whenever i play it i get nice sounds, no squeaks, no notes in the wrong octave. In comparison, the Water Weasel is still my favourite whistle, but definitively a squeaker if you don’t play it just right. This may even be a meaningless piece of information, because i have no way to know if it’s also easy for other people to pley.
I see… But, I think most people mean easy as in low breath pressure/volume requirements.. anyway that is how I interpreted it…
Actually, if you want to “lean into” a dance tune and play aggressively, with breath pulsing, it’s a lot easier to do on a whistle with higher backpressure and resistance, because those whistles retain their pitch stability better over a variety of blowing pressures.
A whistle like an Acorn or a Waltons with much less resistance and backpressure may be an easier blow, but you cannot use breath pulsing without pushing yourself out of tune and squeaking.
It all comes down to how you want to play a given tune, and what sound you are looking for.
–James