Thank you all for the replies on my question about beginners whistles. It was all very useful!
Now a bit about me…my name is Heather and I am very new to the whistle. Well, at least new to PLAYING it. I’ve always wanted to learn, and I fianlly decided to just go for it. So after reading the posts here, and also after much consideration, I finally purchased a Clarke Sweetone and a Clare. I really do like the Clare…IMO the sound is really nice and it’s very playable especially on the higher notes. Now I am scouring Ebay and other whistle sites for it seems that I have a very bad case of WhOA and have a need to buy as many whistles as humanly possible. I’m wondering about a cure…is there one or do I just keep going with this obsession???
On a more personal note, I live in Ohio and am mom to 9 wonderful children who are all also obsessed with the whistle and have whistlenapped my Clarke because of it. I suppose now I am going to have to buy each of them their own. :roll:
So there we are…a bit of an intro. I don’t know what else to say without boring you all to tears. I’m happy to have found others with which I can share my obsessive tendancies, and still be looked upon as at least relatively sane.
Oh boy do many folks here understand WhOA. Even when we have a good whistle that we aren’t playing to the best of our ability yet, a new one pops up that just begs to be purchased and caressed and played. I guess I’m just glad it’s not guitars.
Get all the kids a sweetone. Elderly instruments has the natural sweetones for cheap, and the colored ones for not much more ($5)
SWEETONE TINWHISTLE
KEY OF D - NATURAL - Natural polished tin penny whistle (with drawing of a foot-tapping whistler on the tapered barrel). Mouthpiece designed by whistle maker Michael Copeland. Made in England by Clarke.
SWT-D-NAT…list $6.10…our price $4.15 buy
But to heck with being relatively sane. You’ve come to the wrong place for that…Be quiet Jim, she’s new to the site…I don’t care, she needs to know what she’s getting into…But she’s new and she should be treated gently…well we can treat her gently and still let her know what she’s getting into…silly boy, you know that you can’t really explain this to another…no but she’s already had a taste of the ecstacy of the whistle…yes but she can still escape…you know better than that…and besides it sounds like she’s already addicted her children, so the whole family system is lost…there is no hope…but there will be smiles on some faces and that’s worth more than a little…
Welcome Heather, you have entered the twilight zone…and while you may regret it, you will never regret it…have fun
Good to hear the whistle is a family-thing at your house, Heather - at least you’ll have plenty of support for your “instrument of choice”! Welcom to this wild and wacky world, and don’t be a stranger!
Thanks for the warm welcome! Don, thank you for the link. I checked it out and am pleased with the prices…also I didn’t know that place existed so I now have it in my favorites.
Jim, I see you hear the voices too. That’s good…now I feel better about hearing them myself. But I ask you, do yours also sound like some guy from New Jersey that starts out trying to sell me insurance? Oh wait…maybe I shouldn’t have said that…no I do NOT want insurance! Good grief.
Larry, I see you are from New Jersey. I am originally from Trenton.
Anyhoo, I have children that are going to lynch me if I don’t get their breakfast on the table soon. Either that or lynch my 8yo for playing the whistle before they are all up.
Nine kids! Wow, I am so impressed. I am sitting here trying to imagine the size of your dining table, your cooking pots, your car (that is, van), your food-shopping hauls, and your laundry piles. Congratulations on your nine kids!
Me too, Heather. I am one of seven kids. I didn’t think anyone did that any more. As a kid it didn’t seem so bad because it was all we knew and there were several other families at our school with 5+ kids. Having parented two children through to adulthood I don’t know how my mother did it. (My father was only around at strategic intervals). Where are you in central Ohio? Somewhere near Mt Vernon? I live in Cleveland, the other Ohio.
Mike
