Very Cool Whistle Stand!

I ordered this, and I love it. It holds a lot of whistles and rotates very easily. It looks really cool, too. At the moment, I have 2 d whistles (Jerry tweaked Shaw, brass tapered yet unannounced maker - not me), a C (Copeland), an A (Copeland) and a G (Swayne) in it.

http://www.whistleanddrum.com/Lazy+Susan+Irish+Tin+Whistle+Stand+by+John+Coffeen.html

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I have been dreamin of a multi-whistle holder that would clamp on a mic stand. Some of our tunesets involve switching whistles and its always awkward to have one whistle stuffed in my pocket. Dropped an Alpro because of this (fortunately it didn’t damage it)..

The white one is pretty.

One time at a St. Patrick’s Day gig in a very crowded bar, I had my whistles on a music stand and during the short break, all these drunk guys stormed the stage. I was so scared for my instruments, so I grabbed the bouncer and he threw the drunk guys off the stage. What a lovely memory.

I have the light one.

Those are really cool-looking, Jessie. Thanks for letting us know about it!

Unfortunately, I don’t have that kind of cash, but if I ever do, I will certainly remember! What a cool design. My father-in-law made me a whistle stand that holds 8 whistles (my husband and I made a drawing of what we thought might work, and he built it in Arizona and sent it to us) and I am really glad to have it, but the slightest bump and the whistles fall off. If we did it again we would improve the design and make the holes closed off like your picture (our holes are just half holes…so one side is open and the whistles fall off easily). :slight_smile:

I made myself a pretty serviceable whistle stand out of a plan and some dowels.

It is a board about 1.5 ft by 4" by 1" (or so, I am about 2.5 hours away from it right now by car)

I drilled holes in the fron and stuck the dowels into it, and more in the back and put bigger sized dowels there.

It works really well. I had a minor problem in that I ran out of dowel for the back row, and whistles for both rows.

Problem is now solved.

The front row holds high whistles, which are lower than the back row, which has low whistles, which are higher than the front ones… :smiley:

The only down side is that if I had nce whistles, I might be worried about scratching the inside. Oh well, that isn’t a problem yet. Plus the dowels are all poplar → pretty soft.

I actually just built a three dowel stand for use in a concert type setting. And because I have three more whistles than room on my previous stand…

Hey Nico,
I can’t picture what your stand looks like–I’m not very good at visualizing things. :slight_smile: I wonder if you could post a picture of it sometime? It sounds interesting!

not for quite a while… I don’t have it here, and I dont have any pictures.


Try this:

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The bottom is a board
The sticky-uppy-thingys are the dowels which go inside the whistle…
two rows of those, and they aren’t that evenly spaced. ( I like to drill where ever, instead of measuring carefully)

Ohhhhhh, I get it now. Thanks for the illustration! I see what you are explaining now. :slight_smile:

Here is the stand I use, from NicoMoreno’s description i bet its about the same as his design. I also thought I’d put in a few of my other favorite things, thanks to Colin Goldie, BlackBeer, Hammy Hamilton and Rob Forkner. :slight_smile:

That is very nice Jessie. It reminds me of a pipe holder I had when I smoked years ago. I also have a stand I made similar to the other pictured stand. Mine is for a 12 Gen set. It holds the 6 Nickel in the back and the 6 brass in the front.

Keep whistling
Ron

Wow, David, nice collection!! Overtons, I assume?

I also have one of these stands. It was an early model that i bought at an Ebay auction. Very convenient to have next to your easy chair and beautiful to boot.

I highly recommend this stand.

jim d

Weekender,
Something like this?
http://www.musiciansfriend.com/srs7/sid=031219231035065019129213803082/g=perc/search/detail/base_pid/446139/
(wow, thats a long address, sorry, no picture)
It was orginally designed for drumsticks, but I’m sure with a little brillant thought you could make yourself one.

Wallpaper :slight_smile:

That is cool. I wonder how I could make the clamp though. I often switch from Eflat to Recorder and Bflat and I also need to change my specs sometimes. I have a support for the end of my flute and often hang a whistle bag on it but it’s fidly to get at.

I made a flannel roll, (which I would show if I were remotely competant at posting pics online,) but it’s basically batting between layers of flannel, with long channels stitched in it to form pockets, then the whole thing rolls and ties. Not convenient for home use, but I became concerned that a whistle would slip out from the pages of the book I was carrying it in and get a nasty bonk on the pavement.

Wow! (I never noticed till just now how weird Overtons mouthpieces were).

There’s an interesting flute on the Whistle and Drum site
that Jessie posted, by Maurice Reviol, with some
extraordinary MP3s attached. Anybody know about it?

David, you’ve got nice taste in equipment. What do you play through the Mesa stack, somehow I doubt that there’s a Squier Strat just out of view… :laughing:

Its funny you should mention the Squire Strat, that was my very first “instrument”.

I’ve been using a Godin LGX-SA for a few years now, very versatile with the whole acoustic/electric and synth access mix.

http://www.godinguitars.com/godinlgxsap.htm