Hello all.
Coud you give me information about this whistle?
Stamped VICEROY ,MADE IN ENGLAND on the fipple.
that blue one’s really cool in a really tacky way
That’s a Viceroy. These were made in England. They had plastic tops.
…and they come in colors and have teeny B and F tone holes…
Philo
Oh boy, yet another whistle mystery!
How about these mystery whistles on eBay:
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too bad the red fipples don’t come in other colors to actually match the rest of the whistle. i do like the blue.
B hole ? 
OXXOOO C 
That’s a Viceroy. These were made in England. They had plastic tops.
And they had VICEROY ,MADE IN ENGLAND moulded on the fipple.
holy poop $28.00 to ship
C# & G holes
it’s a bloody plage it is.
yes 
but I never say things like that 
well!
I’ve never been much of a lady…
They could be counterfeits made in a third world sweat shop by slave labor.
I bought a “Saxaflute” whistle off Ebay some time ago. The one I got was in really bad shape - windway smashed in and all. With a little work it is in playing shape again and is - at best - a fair whistle. It plays in B. And it’s surprising the amount of thought and engineering that went into this - look at the fancy little “bump” in the wood part of the fipple. Actuallya pretty cool piece!
My grandson likes to play “the Red one”!
I have a couple of those Viceroy heads. I can’t remember when and where I got them - dim recollection of buying them in a music store that had a box full of them for a few pennies, no bodies. They are wide - wider than a Gen Bb body. But once you do fit them onto something, they sound pretty weak.
It’s funny but with that name, you’d expect them to made in India. Presumably the brand name predates Indian independence anyway (1947), if not the articles themselves. Hmm. They might be made of bakelite…
Thanks for all the feed back.
I bought this at the Jewel shop, local town in ireland several years ago.
They were in the cabinet as decoration.
The shopkeeper had no information about this whistle…
I have two ‘Viceroy’ whistles-the Blue version.
I bought them for a few quid on E-Bay,a couple of years ago.
The unusual thing about them is that mine have a hole at the BACK (rather like a Recorder),that is in line with the ‘B’ hole.This can be used to produce a second octave ‘D’ in leiu of the more conventional fingering (0 x x x x x).
Apparently ‘Viceroy’ whistles were used ,years ago, in some Irish schools to teach the rudiments of music.
I have a Viceroy (in blue) but have never figured out the fingering. It doesn’t over-blow like a whistle, rather gives an open octave with the thumb hole, and pinching the thumb-hole gives another five notes or so before it goes to hell. On the plus side, the heads fit nicely on UPVC toilet pipe making a nice Overtone flute.
Anyone know the history?