Just wanted to say that the Tweaked Sweatone I bought from Jerry Freeman is AWSOME!!! I’m still new to whistleing but I will say that I make fewer mistakes due to tounging a B and then a D. It dosn’t seem to take more breath but it dosn’t try to pop into the next octave. (am I making any sense)
Just wanted to say Thanks
Heather
Why are you thanking Jerry? Here is a guy who runs a sweat shop of Elves, and if they didn’t get completely sh**faced drunk on Saturday nights, he probably wouldn’t even give them Sunday off! And then there is that rat, pardon me: mouse. It’s always the same: The Elves do the hard work of tweaking, and Jerry gets the credit…
Geez, Bloo.
Do you have any idea how much it costs around here to keep those elves in booze?
You mean, you’ve stopped moonshining?
Every manufacturer should run their products thru guys like Jerry before they go to market.
I’m sorry! 
Thanks to The elves and the mouse.
SHHHHHHHHHHH!!!
How does it feel to be famous, Jerry?
Ralph has asked me to tell you that he finds this kind of sarcastic, stereotyping remark deeply hurtful. As a proud member of the Mouse-American community who works hard to support our nation’s whistle economy, he wishes people would stop and think before making such statements. (This is especially difficult for him because of the barriers to murine Internet access created by thoughtless keyboard design, necessitating his having to communicate through an intermediary.)
Best wishes,
Jerry
Be glad that he can’t order food or buy things on ebay by himself.
Sonja
Hi, Sonja.
Whatever Ralph chooses to do on his own time with his own money is OK with me.
If he could order his own food, I wouldn’t have to bribe him with peanut butter and raisins to keep him from gnawing through my wife’s purses in search of chocolate. (BTW, he’s been a very good mouse, in that respect, since I started encouraging him to visit me here in my office for his meals instead of raiding the pantry or Arleen’s stashed chocolates.)
Best wishes,
Jerry
P.S. Ralph wants to know if you have any sunflower seeds.
You should introduce Ralph to the works of archy – http://www.donmarquis.com/archy/
archy was a vers-libre poet re-incarnated as a cockroach, and he learned to use a typewriter by diving headfirst into the keys, typing a letter at a time. Of course, archy couldn’t use the shift key and had trouble with the carriage return, but these shouldn’t be an issue for ralph in these modern days of the work processor.
Maybe Ralph would find archy inspirational. If he sees that a cockroach, through determination, perseverance and sheer cockroachy grit, can produce such gems as
there is always
something to be thankful
for you would not
think that a cockroach
had much ground
for optimism
but as the fishing season
opens up i grow
more and more
cheerful at the thought
that nobody ever got
the notion of using
cockroaches for bait
and
the honey bee is sad and cross
and wicked as a weasel
and when she perches on you boss
she leaves a little measle
then maybe he’ll give the internet a try.
G914,
Thanks for posting that.
I read Archy and Mahitabel when I was a teenager (that would be more than thirty years ago) and had forgotten who wrote it or what species the characters were.
My father was editor of the South Omaha Sun before WWII, and had a weekly column of various kinds of goofiness called “Jabberwocky.” Somewhere in his house is a scrapbook of the columns, including several written by Jeremiah the Mouse, the idea for whom he borrowed from Marquis’ Archie the Cockroach.
Having Ralph around and enjoying a bit of humor writing about him brings up nostalgia for my dad’s tall tales and generally goofy sense of humor, which seems to have passed to the next generation. Whether this is a good thing depends on whom you ask.
Best wishes,
Jerry
P.S. Ralph wants to know, does ANYBODY out there have any sunflower seeds?
Jerry, I know a toothless old woman who loves to suck the chocolate off of chocolate covered sunflower seeds and she never actually eats the seeds. Perhaps I could act as a broker betwixt Ralph and the old woman? Let me know. I will call my people and have them call Ralph’s and your people (and rodentia). We’ll do lunch and perhaps form a multinatinational corporation and take it public. It’s low tech. It’s a new market segment. I love it.
I told Jerry that I was going to post a review of the Freeman Tweaked Sweetone D, but upon checking the reviews already posted (do a search), I find that I have nothing new to add. I will say, however, that the improvement over the original Sweetone is substantial, especially in the first octave. The bottom notes are quite strong, and the tendency to slip up to the next register has been eliminated, yet without compromising easy octave transitions, which, if anything, are cleaner and more precise than those of the original. Also, the tone is more assertive (although no louder), and the respone is less mushy, making for more incisive cuts and rolls. It is a damn nice whistle. Thanks, Jerry!