On my recent vacation to CA I stopped in a surprisingly well stocked music shop in Mendocino. They had a nice selection of whistles and I found a Susatto (sp?) in the key of F. It is black plastic and probably about 18" long. I have hands like a gorilla and it took some getting used to the spread. I’ll have pictures available later in the week.
I spent $50 and am very pleased with my purchase. My question is did I actually get a good deal?
That’s the usual price. Apart from being Susatos, of course, Susato Fs are one of the nicer Susato keys. Have fun with it.
I have one of the brown wide-bores myself. Looks hellish, 
sounds heavenly! 
Whoo hoo! this is the slippery slope to buying an Alto Recorder(also in ‘F’)!! 
Seriously speaking-Alto Recorder is a good instrument-it’s chromatic,and you can buy an Aulos plastic one for less pennies than your Susato whistle.
I still have a wide bore Susato ‘A’ whistle,and a wide bore soprano ‘D’.
I haven’t played them in quite a while(I must try them again).
My Susato low ‘D’ was nice-I sold it to a delightful lady teacher at a Catholic girls’ school last year(!),following my purchase of a Copeland.
Actually…I’d consider the G whistle more related to the Alto recorder than an F. Why? Because an alto recorder is only in F because it has an extra hole for the pinky…a G on an Alto recorder is the same basic fingering as on the low G whistle.
I’m sure the people here would be proud ( ) that, on a piece designed for an alto recorder (choir and solo alto recorder), I convinced the director that a low G whistle would sound much cooler…and then performed it on a G whistle (also a Susato). It sounded great on it. 
~Crysania
True,Crys.!
I would describe the Alto Recorder as being fundamentally in ‘G’ with the extra notes ‘tacked on’-likewise the Soprano(Descant) and Tenor as being in ‘D’.
Of course the Flute is fundamentally in ‘D’.
All musicians are really 'Folkies’at heart! 
I’m with you there. I have a cheap plastic soprano recorder, and the only time I play it is when I would otherwise use a D whistle, but there are too many accidentals in the piece.
Of course, when I first started whistle, I thought of it in the reverse way…“oh it’s like a C recorder, but without the pinky hole”…now I look at it the other way…go figure!
~Crysania
Oh…and I do like recorders…but for Renaissance music…I want to get a soprano Praetorius recorder at some point…
~Crysania
YES!
I want something similar to play Van Eyck on.
I am off to the post office tomorrow to pick up a nine C.D.set (!)of a recording of ‘Der Fluyten Lust-hof’ by Swedish recorder maestro Dan Laurin.
How in the world did a question about Susatos turn into a discussion about recorders?!?
Erm…cause they sound more recorder-like than other whistles? Yeah…that’s it…
shhh…just stick with the story, people!
~Crysania
An Englishman started it and the Americans followed.
I just received last week an order of Sustato whistles from Kelischek that included the “medium” bore head and bodies for A, G and F. That finger reach between holes 5 and 6 on the Susato F (and the G) is HUGE - more than on my Kerry Low D. The Susato F sounds lovely, but it will take some real doing for me to not leak hole 5 reliably on it. I also really like the A, by the way…
On inexpensive alto recorders - MUCH better than either of the Aulos altos is the Dolmetsch Nova. Available in the US from Courtly Music, Inc. and in the UK direct from Dolmetsch. Less expensive, too. Much nicer, more interesting tone, and at least as well in tune as the Aulos instruments. I keep a Nova alto in my vehicle (and soon will install one of my Susato D whistles there as well) for impromptu use and keep another one handy here for impromptu playing rather than getting out my palisander rosewood Kung Superio alto…
I almost bought the nova tenor. While looking for a vendor to buy from, I saw this place that had these little whistle things…
I wound up getting the an aulos alto and sop plastic in woodgrain finish, and a yamaha plastic in woodgrain as well. They are gathering dust nicely now. It’s a shame. Recorders really are apt and agile instruments.
My regular tenor is a Nova and my wife plays a Nova bass (I do too, occasionally, but even though I once played bassoon I have a devil of a time with bass clef so I just play it as an alto an octave lower).
Messed a bit more with the Susato F whistle tonight. Still trying to find a “grip” that has me reliably covering hole 5 and still reaching (and covering that very large) hole 6. Every tenor recorder I’ve played (and as I mentioned before, my Kerry low D whistle) are easier on the reach. The bass, with four keys, is even easier.
Cos I’m secretly trying to subvert this board from within(!)
My current low ‘F’ whistles are a Dixon two piece and a lovely Colin Goldie built ‘Overton’.
Odd that a recorder would be mentioned… I recently wrote to a band (http://www.thebards.net/) and found out the whistle I was enjoying so much was a recorder.
Yes, but the Brobdingnagian Bards play recorder as if it were a chromatic whistle, and tend to shy away from the type of music where you wouldn’t be caught dead with either a whistle or a cheap plastic recorder.
Other bands/musicians who play the recorder in this fashion: Straight Furrow, the Bow Triplets, Carlos Nuñez.
Dalberon,
If it’s the medium bore two-piece, be sure to get an A body for it. I have that whistle with the A and F bodies, and that A is really great to play. The finger reach is perfect, the tone is nice, and the tuning is, well, Susato perfect. I still haven’t warmed up to the F myself, but throwing that A body on the mouthpiece makes it sing.
Have fun
Jef