This was an attempt by a new maker to get unbiased feedback on a new low-cost whistle designed to offer many of the advantages of a higher-end instrument.
Because of the overwhelmingly negative response, I have been asked to return the prototype for redesign and to pull the sound sample.
Hopefully at some future date you’ll see a revised version of this whistle become available.
My apologies to all. When I am sent a prototype instrument for evaluation, I am bound to that maker’s wishes–otherwise, makers would stop sending me prototype instruments.
I’m inclined to agree. The sound sounds “wooden” and “pinched” all at once. Interestingly, the Sweetheart fife I fiddled with at SAMfest sounded a bit like this, too.
On 2002-08-01 13:52, StevieJ wrote:
I think it’s a recorder.
Steve may very well be right, but whatever it is, it sounds like crap. No offense intended to you with that comment James, I’m just saying, whatever that first instrument is, it sounds terrible and by the tone I’m going to guess the body, or the whole crappy sounding thing is made of plastic. It’s nasty, whatever it is…
yup, I thought it was a recorder too. Sounds like a bad wooden recorder though. I have a plastic Yamaha (reliable) and it sounds nicer than that.
Funnily enough, when I first got my recorder end of 2001, I tried to play it like a whistle (ignore the bottom 2 holes for C and Bb, cover the octave hole at the back and overblow), and found that you could sort of do it, complete with ornamentation and all. Only troublesome thing was playing the F#.
- if - they like the sound .. everyone might just ‘switch over’.