Do you throw your whistle up in the air like a baton and try to catch it, but miss and it lands with the mouthpiece clogged completely full of dirt and mud? Or am I the only one?
shrugs then goes to run water through the Gen Bb to clean it out
You may have found a tweak, there.
Can’t say I do, Cran.
Seriously? I thought a lot of people did that. 
I don’t think so, but I do have a tendency to drop low whistles on to hard surfaces, causing damage and sometimes foul language..
Jeez Cran-- glad you don’t have one of mine!! 
… WHAT? You don’t want to be fixin’ his whistle every week or so? Think of the repair charges! You could be making a fortune here! I suggest you start urging people to use your whistles as batons – what a cool idea! Busman Batons – another source of income! Paul … think “balsa”!
serpent
You ever watch “Feet of Flame,” one of the Michael Flatley Riverdance sequels?
He spins a couple of high-end flutes like a baton at one point…made my hair stand on end.
–James
Funny, I don’t recall any foul launguage, but perhaps I just blacked that part out. 
Nope, never tried throwing my whistles… though now that you mention it, it might be fun to try (with cheap ones though, not my nice handmade ones).
Happy batoning!
Sara
In one of the Lunasa concerts viewable here:
http://www.kennedy-center.org/programs/millennium/search_results.cfm
(type “Lunasa” in the search box)
… there’s a sequence where Kevin Crawford (the flute/whistle player) introduces a tune that will feature Sean Smyth on whistle, then on fiddle. Kevin runs an amusing banter about how Sean’s whistle will magically disappear in the blink an eye and his fiddle will appear as if from nowhere when he makes the switch from whistle to fiddle.
At the crucial moment, Sean throws his whistle in a high arc over towards Kevin, who catches it effortlessly as Sean rips into the fiddle part of the tune. The impression one gets is that this was an unplanned stunt, and Sean was playing with Kevin because he had made such a big deal of the switch.
Best wishes,
Jerry
That’s cool, Jerry. It’s always amusing to see in rock concerts the guitar or bass player get a few hundred volts through his strings, from a badly grounded sound system, and reflexively throw the thing away as far as it will go! Microphones do that too, and it’s even worse – right on the lips!