…to slug a redheaded Green Beer Irish when they insist of calling your whistle a flute?
Let it shine!
[ This Message was edited by: DaleWisely on 2001-09-20 17:38 ]
Sure, as long as you don’t slug the spalpeen with your whistle.
OTOH, I have a low D PVC whistle of a brand that I promised Dale I’d quit badmouthing here. Properly taped and weighted, it’d make a fine shilelagh.
On 2001-09-14 23:34, Chuck_Clark wrote:
Sure, as long as you don’t slug the spalpeen with your whistle.OTOH, I have a low D PVC whistle of a brand that I promised Dale I’d quit badmouthing here. Properly taped and weighted, it’d make a fine shilelagh.
Hum, I was thinking of serenading her dog with my Generation high G. We’re not supposed to hit, dang it!
Damn Chuck,
You really gonna let the folks at Susato bully you like that?
Loren
Loren, I think we all know what to do with bullies, no matter how charming the package! 
Loren
Bully, no. I don’t take well to that. But for Dale, sure. After all he’s done for us, not mentioning certain whistles by name didn’t seem too much. Besides, he didn’t make that piece of misdirected sewer pipe anyway. Oops.
Easy, guys! I too have to admit having a bit of a dislike for my Susato Low D (which has gone on to a new home), but I recently ordered a mid-bore low F and A and am pleased to report that they sound significantly better! I don’t play in those keys often so went with the cheapest I could find… they do sound respectable in those keys, in my opinion.
Jef
Anna,
If you put your Generation high G in the freezer first for a while and then play. That way the fipple will attract every bit of moisture for 50 yards. Then all the squeaks and squawks in to the 3rd and 4th octave won’t be your fault. You can explain to Green Beer, “Its the humidity, Whistles, sometime do that, though flutes don’t seem to have that problem, by the way thats the best hornpipe I’ve ever seen a dog do…”.
I had a family in the shop to buy a Low whistle or two on Saturday. The father was instructing his wife and his four children on the instruments in my whistle section.
Every time he was asked what the long aluminium cylindrical objects made by O’Briain and others were called he replied: “it’s a Low flute”.
Was I going to contradict him? No way!
I just gritted my teeth, smiled and thought of the money I’d lose if I made him look silly.
Steve
[ This Message was edited by: StevePower on 2001-09-19 10:40 ]
Steve,
I suppose it’s like they say, “The customer is always right”, eh?
Could have been worse; At least the guy wasn’t calling them “Metal Recorders” 
Loren