I found some old threads about whistles folks like and play. But, what about the one’s you have and like but hardly ever play? So far, I have only one that would fall into that category - a fine high D.
These days most of my playing is rehearsing or gigging with my band. For that I use my own D in “Mexican Mystery Wood” and a C in Cooktown Ironwood. I also use a Goldie Overton A, Water Weasel G, and Sweetheart Resonance Low D.
Others that I love but don’t play much are a wondrous Thin Weasel Blackwood High D, one of those Czech handmade Elder whistles (F?), A Sindt C, Bingamon brass whistle tuned in a Middle Eastern key (great fun!), several others that don’t leap to mind at the moment.
I have a Sweetheart ‘Mello-Pro’ D in Dymondwood, that I acquired through some kind of trade years ago. It’s a fantastic whistle, but I have a nice O’Brien ‘Rover’ and a Burke, too. So the Sweetheart tends not to get played. More’s the pity. It’s a dandy.
I have a nickel Copeland that I love but can’t play often because it is so loud in the upper registers. I’ve heard the older brass Copeland’s weren’t this way but have never played or seen one, except in pictures. My Jerry Gen’s in high D, since I got the Bluebird. A Burke composite low D that I don’t play because I never seem to go lower than my Copeland brass low F because it’s just so beautiful to hold and play. A Burke composite session D that sounds so birdlike but just sits there. Water Weasel in Bb…just too loud.
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I have an excellent Burke Bb that I don’t play because the highest note in the low range (B on a D whistle) seems a bit to pure for me and hurts my ears (the product of one day when I really cut loose with a high B note and hurt my ears). I prefer my Burke aluminum A.
I also have a Burke session high D in brass that I don’t play much because to me it’s too loud and I always play alone. I usually play the softer-sounding Clarke original in D.
I would gladly trade either for an aluminum high C of comparable quality.
(hint, hint)!