I was just sitting here thinking, what whistle would the members of Chiff
and Fipple ask Santa to bring them as a gift this year?
Hmmm? What whistle would YOU ask Santa to bring you? Now lets
see… Were you naughty or nice? What whistle would YOU ask for???
James
A Stor Mo Chroi
Sorry to tell you this, but Santa isn’t real. 
Honest.
Well, since I’m getting (already have, actually) and Abell C/D/Eb set for Christmas, I think I’d ask for a low D. I don’t own one, and I think it’s about time. Perhaps an Overton? Copeland? I really have no idea where to begin. Perhaps I should start another thread called, “What low D would Congratulations like?”
Hmm…
Thanks to some astute (though some would use a differing phonetic iteration of that to describe my playing 
) bidding on eBay, Santa brought me a mint condition Burke Viper Pro.
As I told Mike in an FYI e-mail, the whistle’s haunting tone sounds like a moaning bean sí. Feels like it’s pounds lighter than my brass Howard and fingers like a dream. Can you tell I’m excited?
Not a whistle, but Santa got me a von Huene A. Grenser copy Baroque flute. I think I’ll have Santa wrap it up (it came a couple of months ago), although I’m not sure Santa will be wrapping my wife’s serger, which came about 4 months ago.
I got to agree with Screeeech!!! on this one. I myself happen to be Jewish, but if I was going to ask for a Whistle it would have to be a Lon Dubh or an Abell as I have always wanted to try a Lon Dubh and the Abell I once tryed was great.
An Abell Low G…unless anyone thinks that one of Santa’s elves might be able to figure out how to make an Abell low D! No? No…probably not. The low G then!
I have gone for whistles this xmas. i have received a set of Mr O’Brien’s( Canada) handmade whistles, howver these have been intercepted by Mrs Steggy and hidden until the big day. i am itching to get my fingers on em and very excited.
i am also looking for a soprano overton d for my birthday but my dealer( god i’m weak) tells me that they are no longer being made. any second hand ones out there , i’ll probably pick up a susato at some point too.
that said it was great to see spider stacey of the pogues laying the law down with a generation ( cheap and when they are right very cheerful indeed), must not forget our roots.
love for solstice and xmas , steggy
Same here Congrats! 
Ooh-- Von Huene makes wonderful stuff. I have one of their Rippert alto recorders. Is Loren still working there?
Do you plan to play Trad music on this, or just baroque? Actually, by his dates O’Carolan qualifies as a Baroque composer, I think…
Loren is still there; he helped broker this deal with one of his co-workers. The flute plays beautifully – it’s a pretty faithful facsimile, but has a couple of tweaks. One is a very slightly elliptical embouchure, the other is that the F# is slightly flattened in order to make the Fnat a little more in tune.
I’m playing almost exclusively O’Carolan on it. I worked on several Laments last night after seeing Helicon’s 20th annual solstice concert. (Chris Norman, Ken Kolodner, and Robin Bullock, an absolutely amazing collection of musicians.) I picked up a tape that has Chris playing Squire Wood’s Lamentation, so I got out the O’Carolan book. The other four laments on that page are all in Eflat or F. I’d been playing transposed versions of them, and THEY DON’T SOUND THE SAME TRANSPOSED!!! They sound much better in their native keys, plus it gets me practicing the flats and one also has accidentals.
It’s a blast. I’m enjoying the one-key a lot more than any multi-key flutes, but that may really be the quality of the instrument rather than the mechanics of playing it or the appropriateness of it for the music.
What you mean Santa Aint real!?!?! crazy folk round here.
I would go for a Burke Narrow Bore Aluminum D!!!..and a new garage door opener.
Merry Christmas to all!
-W
Oh, Santa is real alright. You people just don’t see him around much because he plays recorders!
I have a twist on it… I got to play Santa a bit by doing the bidding on a Thin Weasel for a friend who dearly wanted it for Christmas, and I didn’t have to use my money… her hubby is paying for it. I love it! (Of course, I might have loved it more if it was for me, heehee)… but hey… surrogate Santa is a good thing.
I need Santa’s help in convincing the person I am borrowing an O’Riordan set from to trade for it!
If you don’t know what that means, make sure to ask Santa for a dictionary.
At this point it appears that there are no whistles in his bag. I may buy myself a Feadog Pro after the holidays. There is a rumor though that he may have an mp3 player in the bag.
Ron
Copeland D Whistle in Sterling Silver is on order. I have to wait a while for it.
I bought a Tipple three-piece, tunable six-hole low D flute “fully loaded” (Speckled Bore + Lip Plate + Tipple-Fajardo Wedge) to occupy myself with in the meantime. It’s really nice!
Well, Santa is bringing me (via my Christmas bonus) a tuneable Cheiftain Low D, it should be here by Friday… Merry Christmas to ME!
I see that everyone who has replied to this topic are getting some very nice whistles. Myself, being a beginner and perhaps living under more humble circumstances, am quite excited about receiving my Freeman “MellowDog” as an early Christmas gift.
To get it early, I had to make a deal with my wife, to accompany her as she sang the Wexford Carol in front of our church congregation, which I did yesterday. Although I screwed up a little bit , on the whole it was a positive experience. I got some good compliments from some of the professional musicians that I had to play in front of, and my wife said that several people in the audience complimented her on how I sounded, although only one person said so to my face. I even interested one kid in picking up the tin whistle, although he is trying to learn to play instruments of all sorts.
Any, the whistle is MINE MINE MINE now (you can tell that I’m not excited at all 
)!
As a side note, Screech, what do you have against The Big Man In Red? After all, we all have our harmless little fantasies and beliefs in things which have no apparent physical proof, such as elves, hobbits and happy marriages. Unless the belief is going to cause some sort of damage, why not let it alone? I myself teach my kids that Santa Claus is a representation of the spirit of selfless giving. Under that definition, I think that many people can honestly say that they believe in Mr. Claus.
I also teach them that whatever they see, they don’t get, which keeps the older kids in line!
By the way, I myself have positive proof that there are such things as happy marriages !