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Beth, the green one looks like a flute to me, but I don’t know what brand.
I too think that it looks like a transverse embochure hole with lip plate. A piccolo, then.
Aha, I see - he called it a whistle in the title but did say flute later on.
How about the silver whistle, anyone heard of “James Galway brand”?
Yes, I have a James Galway whistle. My father randomly sent it to me one day, although I have no idea where he found it. It’s a perfectly fine whistle, but I haven’t played it much. It doesn’t compete with my Oak or my Alba Q1 (or my flute or my concertina, both of which get played more than any of my whistles). I would, however, put it in the good end of the spectrum of cheapie whistles.
Steven
The green one is pretty much a musical toy. It is trying to be a transverse recorder. That black part at the top is a whistle-type mouthpiece. I have a yellow one I bought in the UK many years ago. It uses recorder fingering for the one octave it can produce. Forget trying to overblow into the second. Produces rubbish.
Cheers,
David
Looks like it died for lack of bids. Hardly surprising, I suppose, though I’d have thought someone might pay that much for the two recorders.
I’m more surprised that nobody bought the 2 Skip Healy fifes for $500. I haven’t heard of a high priced flute on eBay for a while now. Maybe we’re in an eBay low.