Where to order from in South Eastern Europe/general Europe

Whistle
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I’m from Croatia. The Irish tinwhistle is unavailable in local shops where I live. I need to order it from outside. What is the best online shop for me to order from? I’m looking for a few whistles in the 30-50$ range.

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Well . . .

If you want to make sure that you get a good whistle, I’d recommend ordering a Jerry Freeman Tweaked whistle. Jerry offers a few types on EBay, or you can throw a post to Jerry himself at j3rry@tc3n3t.n3t (replace the threes with e’s) and have access to all the whistles he tweaks.

Jerry tweaks Generation brand whistles in every key that they make. He also tweaks Sweetones and Shaws. His most expensive whistle is the tweaked MellowDog where he mounts a Feadog fipple on a Walton whistle shaft. - Those are about $40 (US).

If you want to spend a little more money, I have heard a lot of good things about Syn whistles, although I myself am new to whistles and have only played a MellowDog and a badly self-tweaked Generation “D”.

Good Luck!

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Thanks, but sorry, not the answer I was looking for. I have already looked into a variety of brands on this forum. I need the best sites to order from.

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Well, BigWhistle is in the UK - you can order from them . . .

http://www.bigwhistle.co.uk/index.asp

They also offer Mr. Freeman’s whistles.

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Or you could try Hobgoblin in London.

http://www.hobgoblin.com/

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just a note, you might wanna write his email differently, there might be spam-bots scanning the page, looking for email-addresses, happens all the time. Perhaps you could change it the way I did in my post?
Best, Amar

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Thanks, amar. Good call. I had posted Jerry’s e-mail in several different places and had to go back and edit them all.

My apologies, Jerry - won’t happen again.

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Jerry’s email is changed now, but it appears to be intact in both quoted sections.

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No, amar has spaces between the words in the e-mail, ie: Jerry @ , etc, which should prevent simple spam bots from using it

I chose to use something else because, as a programmer, I know how easy it would be to strip the spaces out. However, it should be OK as it stands.

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yes, but I added spaces within his address, don’t you think that’s ok that way? or must it be changed even better?

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Dobro doshli u C&F. Mi smo iz Engleske ali zhiveli smo u Hrvatskoj tri godine. Sad zhivemo u Grchkoj.

Kupujemo nashe flaute iz Engleske i iz Amerike. Lesno je ih poruchiti od oboje zemlje. Koja marka zhelite kupiti?

Gdje zhivite u Hrvatskoj? Idemo ponekad.

Adrian

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I’ll revert to English. We have lived in SE Europe 11 years. Whistles from UK we normally get from Bigwhistle. He is quick and efficent. Burkes I get from Mr Burke, Susatos from their compoany in the US etc.

I’ll be in Croatia (Zagreb) in the spring. Send a PM if you’d like to meet

http://www.bigwhistle.co.uk/ Good source. Also has quite a few of Jerry’s tweaked whistles. Has some good books as well.

http://www.susato.com/ Reliable and within your budget

http://www.burkewhistles.com/ One of my favorites