I suffer from WhOA and therefore when browsing at a local music store I could not stop myself from buying the nickel plated Generation F and G whistles. They are cute, small, and not expensive. But whistles are lonely if the are not played, so I tried them. To my surprise they are not just novelties but easy to play and beautiful sounding instruments. I found then found they had a number of virtues. 1) Their music has a pleasant, mystic sound. 2) They are small enough to fit easily into a shirt or jacket pocket. Now when my wife ducks into a store for an item, I can get 20 minutes of playing while waiting for her. 3) They require more careful fingering than the larger whistles. This is good for it never hurts to improve your fingering. And finally 4) they can win you bets. A bartender seeing the whistle in my pocket, bet me a beer that I could not play anything as small as my G whistle. After playing âThe Star of the County Downâ I got my Guinness and almost started a session.
Please change the description of the G whistle in the Chiff and Fipple Deciphering Whistle Keys, the G whistle is a lot more than a novelty!
Dogs loveâem.
My dogs, a shepherd-pit bull cross, and a doberman, seem to like my whistle playing, no matter which whistle I play. But that is to be expected since dogs can be better people than humans.
The F and G Generations are, in my opinion, the best of all the keys Generation does, in terms of everything being configured so they play and sound the best with the least amount of tweaking.
Having made some hands-on comparisions, I found that the soundblade position and other geometry of the current F and G Generations seems not to have changed from the classic pre-1980âs âI wish they still made them like they used toâ Generations. All the other keys of Generations are different between the vintage and current ones, both in terms of the geometry being optimal for playability, and in the voicing â the current ones being huskier (some would say âedgierâ or âraspierâ).
Best wishes,
Jerry
I have fat fingers, so anything above F is impossible for me.
I have the f and g. I canât manage to get my fingers on the g very well, but I can the f. Both of them are very very sweet sounding. Delicate. Not much tweeking or anything.
I love both my G and F. I have found that my fat fingers and Guiness donât work too well on the G. One of my dogs does give me the âLOOKâ but he doesnât howl or leave. I bought them for novelty but that changed after a short time. I just donât play either one enough.
Too bad there aint some kind of , uh, anti piper grip? Unpiper? Depiper?
Bizzaro-Piper?
I have old and modern Generation type âFâ and 'Gâs(c;1900,lead fipples anâall)).The old ones are fantastic.Enough said.
I have a Thin Weasel which is one of the niftiest pieces of precision machining I have ever seen. Blackwood with all stainless fittings. Glenn could not find tubing for the tuning slide in the proper sizes, so he machines these himself. In two pieces and stowed in itâs usual TW case, this is truly pocket size for easy carrying. The sound is sweet and birdlike and not at all shrill, all the way up to the top. An amazing little whistle.
Drat. Iâve been avoiding those keys because I find a Gen Eb is hard enough to finger. Now Iâll have to think about adding both the next time I order something from The Whistle Shop.
Although if they can win free stout it could be argued they pay for themselves. 
Theyâre ideal for small people with small hands (like me); theyâre pretty; there really is an element of surprise when they produce nice music; theyâre easily concealed in a handbag and brought out whenâŚwell, there was a power outage at work last week; no lights, no computers, no work could be done: Everyone else was suddenly idleâŚbut I was whistling in the dark.
Nice little tooters when well-tweaked. I gave an untweaked Gen G to a friend with a near deaf dog. Works wonders. No, Iâm not kidding.
I have an Abell F which is a fantastic little instrument. Quite pure and very sweet but with just a hint of âcharacterâ which is hard to achieve in an instrument in that range.
Odd timing, as I just got one of these (a Gen F) yesterday.
I love the sound of the little guy, but the Eb (0XX000) sounds off a bit. Is it just me, or is this normal?
Three words: Fingertip Reduction Surgery
More useless Mary Bergin âstatsâ. Our Heroine plays an âFâ whistle on 5 tracks out of 29 on her two âFeadog stainâ albums.
(This REALLY is getting SAD! 
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On a Generation, I suggest you use the traditional oxxxox for âc-naturalâ (Eb in case of the F).
Uh-oh. I had my girlfriendâs sister by a whistle and ship it over to me from Ireland. It hasnât arrived yet, but she says itâs a Generation G. I didnât really specify what key to get. Looks like the pets are gonna hate me.
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I just got a generation high G and F in nickel, man theyâre cool. Dont take much air and are strong all through. I got relatively lucky with my b flat brass, too. It is very strong on the low notes and doesnt start having problems til around the high G or A. Anyway, I think the high F is my favorite out of the 7 or so whistles Iâve ever played, excepting the jerry sweetone.
I am glad to hear that others also agree on the virtues of the Generation F and G whistles. I have average to large âmaleâ hands, so therefore there are certain fingering that are hard on the G, but I still love the sound of those that work. For when I am alone or just with my dog, the F is my favorite, (the dog doesnât mind it!)