(I’ve wanted to do something like this for a long time…and I guess the spirit of the season is upon me…cleared with Dale)
First, the prize: One inexpensive whistle from the online whistle vendor of your choice (Elderly, the Whistle Shop, etc), valued at $20.00 or less (not including shipping), bought and paid for and sent to you 100% free.
The object: Guess the whistle in these two recordings. It’s the same whistle in both.
The rules: Only one guess per person. One, that’s it.
All entries should consist of answers to these questions:
Approximate retail price?
Material the whistle is made of?
Closest match by 12-24-2005 wins. If you think you know the exact make of whistle, you may say that instead, and the first person to guess the exact make of the whistle wins, even if we haven’t gotten to 12-24-05 yet. Going back and editing your posts to change your guess is grounds for disqualification from winning, so be sure of your guess before you post. Discussion amongst yourselves in this thread is encouraged, unless you want to play things close to the vest.
very good wanderer! …uhmmm…breathy…reminds me of an old unpainted tin Clarke with wooden fipple. Through the years, I used mine a lot and got a strange plumb colour and the wooden piece a bit worn out. Besides…that D sounds slightly out of tune…hey!!! that’s my whistle!!! where have you been wandering around recently? I forgot turning the whistle-alarm on again…
I believe it’s a Jerry Freeman tweaked Clarke Sweetone in D, material is tin and plastic as far as I know, and retail price is $15 in The Irish Flute Store.
I know the sweetone doesn’t seems so much breathy but it could have been played with the window very close to the mic Also, I was going to say a Shaw, too, but as it was already said I thought I’ll try this one
Wanderer seems rather confident in the obscurity of the make of this whistle. And I’d take it that it’s not one listed on his website as having been reviewed (though that’s still a possiblity). I would also assume that is it not one of the whistles that Wanderer gave as wanting in trade on another thread.
I don’t think Sweetones come in Eb (which is the key of the recordings). Village Smithy is, quote the website, “available in Soprano D only,” though it could very well have been a special order.
I am going to hold off on my guess for a bit.
Oh, and I would like to point out also that Wanderer has, in a similar thread to this one, pulled out some ancient, first-generation whistle by a maker that has since dissolved. I can’t remember specifically what it was, but don’t think he can’t find an obscure whistle!
I think its a Clare 2-piece D tuned out oddly (Brass with plastic mouthpiece; $12.90 @ The Whistle Shop). Clares are chiffy/breathy to begin with, as was mine, until I tweaked it.
…all my guesses came down to that…I have others, but this is my final guess. The Shadow Has Spoken!
Congrats is probably right unless it is in Eb I can’t tell with out a Whistle in my hand. An LBW is the first thing that popped to my head and I have spent a lot of time with those.
BTW, Wanderer, I noticed you used Dnats instead
of Dflats in the A part of Dunmore Lasses (second
sample). Is this for variety, or is there a version
in which the A part is major-ified?
very good wanderer! …uhmmm…breathy…reminds me of an old unpainted tin Clarke with wooden fipple. Through the years, I used mine a lot and got a strange plumb colour and the wooden piece a bit worn out. Besides…that D sounds slightly out of tune…hey!!! that’s my whistle!!! 
where have you been wandering around recently? I forgot turning the whistle-alarm on again… 
Also, I was going to say a Shaw, too, but as it was already said I thought I’ll try this one 
