Why is that? What is unprofessional about an unlaminated D?
And why is the “professional” laminated? Hmm?
Anybody?
They’re just different models…it’s not a matter of one being “unprofessional”. “The Professional” is the name of a particular model of whistle made by Sweet.
The Pro is made of laminated birch, which gives it the look of natural wood with the strength of a laminate. It doesn’t need to be oiled, can handle more radical temperature changes, and won’t crack.
Redwolf
Why didn’t you keep this on the original thread?
Redwolf
Perhaps this will clear things up:
Here is a link to a description of the standard Sweetheart Pennywhistle (now only available in C):
http://www.sweetheartflute.com/cwhistle.html
Here is a link to a description of the newer “Professional Model”:
http://www.sweetheartflute.com/whistles.html
Finally, here is a link to yet another model made by Sweet…the Kilhoury:
http://www.sweetheartflute.com/killoury.html
Redwolf
Thank you for your very helpful responses Redwolf.
I have often wondered why he stopped making the “standard” wooden ones in D … 
I’m not sure, but I think they discontinued the standard model, but had some C’s left. Don’t quote me on that, though.
Redwolf
Goodness Gracious! My favourite model whistle is something the maker doesn’t want to make anymore? I feel so dejected now. 
I think imagunnahavtaringaRalph and askahimawhy.
"hello Mr Sweet, I am a nobody you don’t want to know ringing from Australia and … and … er well I DEMAND AN EXPLANATION! (otherwise I wont buy a C whistle from you). 
"
I can save you the trouble. Ralph was never 100% satisfied with his “standard” whistles, they tended to be a bit unbalanced and loud in the upper reaches, and tuning on the high A and B were shaky and varied considerably from whistle to whistle. He played around with it over the years, but never tackled the issue at the root. About two years ago, Ralph son, Walter, completely redesigned the whistles. He altered the windway and voicing, the window, everything (they have bit of a chin: meaning the fipple block sticks out a bit beyond the windway top edge; Walter said this helps tuning in the upper octave), and they look a bit more streamline then the older models. I played a box full of prototypes in 2002 and thought that they were a vast improvement over the standard models even though there were some very good standard models out there (but also a lot of not-so-great ones). The new model went into production and they phased the older ones out.
I think the professional model is fantastic and competes with much more expensive whistles.
I have to agree. I love mine.
Redwolf
Flower Pasture, thank you for your fulsome explanation. Actually I have had phone conversations with Ralph in the past. Affable chap.
I must have one of the “some”. Lucky me. 
Well, it’s like the Gens. You get a good one, you thank your lucky stars and enjoy it! 
Redwolf
Tally, old chap, look up “fulsome” sometime when you’re not busy. Or did you mean to tell me that my explanation was offensive to your tastes in the same breath you thanked me for it?
Oopsy daisy! There I go with my poetic licence.
Thanks for pointing out my mistake. (Your posts are anything but cloying.)
Actually I thought it rather amusing that you might have been fulsome (insincerely flattering) in thanking me by calling my explanation fulsome (offensive to the tastes) while pretending to mean that it was copius, abundant (not the proper meaning of fulsome). 
But don’t sweat it: it’s a solecism on the rise… :roll:
You may be reading too much into it. I am not the gardener from “Being There” …
Actually I happened to be researching something else today and my Longman’s opened up at the page with a “fulsome” entry.
Not much is just black or white is it Bloomfield?
It just goes to show that either I am older than you or
I have spoken English longer than you or both.
Perhaps I speak an older English.
I thought it was the first as well. Why must people go about evolving the language?
Dreadful!