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I’ve seen it up there a few times, under the title French Irish Whistle. But if it was an Alba whistle, I thought they were made in Scotland, or are the scottish now employing french craftsmen?
Looks like the seller isn’t getting any interest as he keeps having to repost it.
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Interesting.
I would guess it’s a Jean-Pierre le Meur whistle. He’s a whistle maker in France who I’ve heard makes very nice alluminum whistles in D. Lives in Paris… I posted his address and email in a post on france and whistle a few weeks ago.
The “jplmfe_fr” username on eBay would lead me to believe the maker is the seller, but who knows.
-Brett
On 2001-12-07 06:47, Bretton wrote:
I would guess it’s a Jean-Pierre le Meur whistle.
You are right Brett, it is exactly the whistle I was mentioning hearing at a session in Paris (when I replied to your original post a few weeks back).
I was very impressed by the sound.
Sibyle
Friends told me they had heard someone playing what I presume is one of these whistles in France. They said that the player was playing along with all the “G-minor” tunes on a D whistle, and that he was apparently using a cross-fingered F-natural ( xxx-xox).
I was intrigued by this report. Can anyone substantiate this. Is it possible to produce a whistle that will play a cross-fingered F-natural, and if so, what are the trade-offs?
A friend of mine has a flute made by Jean-François Beaudin which gives a perfect F-nat using this cross-fingering. It strikes me as a very useful innovation.
It would indeed be very practical to have that.
I have a, probably made in India, whistle with a fairly large diameter big holes on which the F flattens about 50 cents and with a bit of breath control you can make it to fnat.
Someone with a bit of knowledge of woodwind physics could make a go at it I think.
[ This Message was edited by: Peter Laban on 2001-12-07 11:37 ]