Off the market for what seems like at least a few years, Tony Dixon has just reintroduced the heavy brass high D. It got great reviews before, and I never understood the stop of manufacturing, but it’s back. Maybe this just means the post-COVID marketplace is recovering well enough for whistle makers to feel some encouragements?
When I saw the thread-title I thought it might be about The Heavy Brass (Low) D.
I had one, the “Chieftain Gold” as Phil called it, and holy moley it was heavy.
You’re talking the Dixon High D with the thick brass-tubing body and plastic top?
When I visited Tony’s booth at the NAMM show years ago he had several of those, which I tried and really liked. To me they were his best-playing High D.
(I’m holding Tony’s prototype all-plastic conical-bore Low D.)
