What would be the best low whistle to buy for a first time low whistle player?
Also does anyone have the sheet music for a
song by the pogues, I think it’s called "The Battle Of Brisbane were spider stacey does a lot of whistling. Great tune.
Thanking you wonderful people in advance.
Dan
I started out on a Kerry Low D with the massive plastic mouthpiece, you have to use piper’s grip, unless your hands are massive, but it is quite responsive…has good tone and is in tune. I got mine for about $80. Some prefer the Dixon, I thought they sounded similar, but the Kerry was louder and more chiffy, so naturally…I got it.
Personal opinion: Dixon. Small holes, easy to manage, not too expensive, readily avaiable. After I had played my Dixon for a while, I bought an Overton. I have never had WhOA for another Low D after the first note 
Richard
Whats WhOA?
On 2003-01-18 21:01, Holt wrote:
Whats WhOA?
Whistle Obsessive Acquisition Disorder
(see the page on Chiff & Fipple: http://www.chiffandfipple.com/whoa.html)
You’ve probably already got it… resistance is futile…
M
Marguerite
Gettysburg
Edited to satisfy an OCD spasm.
[ This Message was edited by: mvhplank on 2003-01-18 21:28 ]
resistance IS futile…isn’t that the truth??? how does it always hit so fast?? Fran
On 2003-01-18 21:36, corleyf wrote:
resistance IS futile…isn’t that the truth??? how does it always hit so fast?? Fran
I think there’s a grant and a full-fledged study somewhere in THAT question!
M 
Sorry,…what did you say? I was busy over here: http://www.songsea.com/tinwhist.htm#overton looking at a low D whistle, I don’t know why, I can barely play the Sweetone D that I have!
Ohhhh no…I’ve been at this for less than a week, and I’m already showing symtoms of some kind of a disorder DISORDER???
Tommy
[ This Message was edited by: Holt on 2003-01-18 21:51 ]
He really caught it fast, didn’t he? Well the grant money should just flow in now. Seems the disorder is speeding up. Fran
On 2003-01-18 21:44, Holt wrote:
Sorry,…what did you say? I was busy over here: http:///www.songsea.com/tinwhist.htm#overton looking at a low D whistle, I don’t know why, I can barely play the Sweetone D that I have!Ohhhh no…I’ve been at this for less than a week, and I’m already showing symtoms of some kind of a disorder DISORDER???
Well … YEAH. You were in danger when you picked up the whistle, but REALLy lost when you signed up here.
M
Holt: the trick is learn how to make your own whistles. That way You get new whistles as fast as you can make them. That’s what I do. Eventually if you get good enough, someone will want you to make one for them. I haven’t gotten that good yet 
Where do I get started? there must be plans and formulas somewhere!
Seriously,
Tommy
Hey Tommy there is a link half way down the main page of this site called the Bloody hand whistle or something like that whitch is realy good. Heres another
http://www.lafferty.ca/music/flute-geezers/
But I`ll tell ya right now this is no cure for WhOA. There is no cure. You will soon have that low D, and a High Eb, Bb,C and on and on and on. There is no stopping. To many people make to many beautiful whistles. It is HOPLESS.
Tom
Opps wrong link but a good one, her is the one I ment;
http://home.earthlink.net/~gkfb/makewhis.htm
Tom
WhOA is bad enough, but sometimes it mutates into: IOAD
Instrument Obsessive Acquisition Disorder
Then you buy all kinds of instruments that you can’t play. Well, some of them.
And here is a site on making a low D whistle (I’ve bought the components but haven’t taken a crack at it yet):
http://www.ehhs.cmich.edu/~dhavlena/low-d.htm
I definitely have succombed (spelled right?) to IOAD. It’s really bad, man. Nobody outside of this board understands. 
Thanks, Blackbeer and Rando7, I can’t wait to get started! I’ll let you know how it goes!
But instead of Doing all that Hard as Long Division and s**t go Here http://www.cwo.com/~ph_kosel/flutomat.html
follow the directions and you’ll cut a good 2 hours off your Build time. As You get better. It shouldn’t take you more than 2 hours to make a whistle start to finish. Sanding that damn Dowl Plug down is pain in the Ass though. Try using a polymer filling like Bondo. Yes It’s smells bad but after a Day or so you hardly notice, and it doesn’t shrink, expand, rot, or absorb water. Make your plugs a day ahead of time. Easiest way. Cut out a section of that 7/8" copper pipe. say around 1.5" inches long. Sand and De-bur it after you cut it. Then lubricate the inner walls with regular ol’ motor oil. Just a coating, don’t soak it now. Then Mix up your bondo, doesn’t take much. You’ll probably make way too much the first time around but oh well… After you have the bondo mixed up use a small spackle knife or even an old spoon and transfer the bondo into the oiled tube. Hint it helps if you tape the tube upright on a piece of cardboard for added stability. After you fill up the tube, wait an hour 'til it’s good and dry, cut the uneven end of the bondo off, sand the ends flat against the tube, then slowly push it out, and Presto you have a Fipple plug that will fit PERFECTLY into the 7/8" tubing.
The gods created whisky to keep the Irish from rulling the world, then gave us TinWhistles to keep us happy.
[ This Message was edited by: Cyfiawnder on 2003-01-19 22:09 ]
WHAT are you people doing to poor Tommy?! At least let the poor guy get past “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star”! 
Since coming to this board, I have put in an order for three more whistles, an ocarina and a noseflute, and I blame you ALL!
Robin