the maker named “chen xiang shi”，陈相石。 he love irish traditional music，and love penny whistles。
in china，whistles are difficult to get，2007，he get his first OVERTON whistle，ALTO F。
so he begin to make whistles himself。
his whistlessound like overton/goldie ，At first, his whistle flute is just in the circle of friends passed，Now, with the ascension of the popularity, he also have some order，the price about 200dollars。
fipple made use brass，Main body is aluminium alloy。
Just because the vendor says it was made in Ireland, doesn’t necessarily mean it was made there. Especially considering the low cost. It also has a brass fipple.
Barry, that fellow, David Angus, has been making band flutes, fifes and drums for some number of years, AFAIK. He has been flooding eBay with his stuff recently. Competition for sales is tough at the moment I’d say.
Think the whistles sound good, well-tuned and responsive (especially the F, which has an appealingly vibrant character), but would like to hear the player slow down and discover some sense of pulse and lift when that’s all completely squeezed out by the superficially dazzling speeds. So afraid that, while his technical command is potentially formidable, I really didn’t enjoy it!
Also, it seemed a tad off the beat in a lot of places … just not quite in time. I also wondered about the whistle (singular - I only listened to the first bit of the first video because I really wasn’t enjoying it). It didn’t seem quite in tune to me. The bottom note sounded a fraction sharp to me, and the top note, which admittedly wasn’t sounding properly in any case, seemed a fraction flat, with some slight oddities in between. Maybe that’s because I’m used to hearing flat bottom Ds, sharp top ends and broadly JI in between … but I didn’t think so.
See, I just couldn’t spot the beat in places (‘discover some sense of pulse and lift’).
and the top note, which admittedly wasn’t sounding properly in any case, seemed a fraction flat
Sure, he muffs the two-octave note (notional OXXOOO ‘D’, sounding F) in the opening scales, but later (eg between 1:20 and 1:30 in the same video) gets well above that (up to a notional ‘G’, sounding Bb) with cleaner sound.
Seems you focus on performence, in fact, I just want to give everyone see the whistle.
and i mean “enjoy that”,refer to the whistle,not the performence^^
Chinese whistle performance is still very preliminary stage, the first whislte(CLARKE D) MASs appeared in China in 2009, 3 years ago,Previously only very scarce high-end players have whistles.
currently in China, really can play traditional Irish music, include me,i think absolutely not more than 30 people. other fans,use whistle just play chinese tune\japanese tune,and others,As a substitute for chinese “Xiao”.
So, don’t be the Chinese whistle play expect too much
Most Chinese English not so good, tutorial book also look not to understand, most player is to see video study by oneself,just like me
