I got my wide bore Elfsong E (it also fits D and C tubes - not the smaller sassy brass version) from AndreaZ, and it’s not shrill at all.
I’ve flirted with the idea of getting a low E too, but I don’t really ‘need’ E for anything specific like singers or other instruments, I just like it.
Tyghress, for me it must be #3. 
You know, if you have B, besides being able to play (also) in the key of E you can play along a blues tune in C#m7 or F#m7 as well.
“Dedicated to B whistles”
Then “Not to B” said Hamlet in the dark
He pull-ed out that hideous thing in B
and slain the mass of players of re*****rs
by means of droning B, ornamentations.
My next two whistles acquisitions are a trade for two Sindts, B and C#. The key of B mostly for the secondary key of E and the C# for the secondary key of F# so I can play along with certain recordings I have of Northumbrian Smallpipes that play in that key (don’t know if it is because of the pipes or the recording speed). Also just so I can fill a couple of gaps in available keys in my whistle collection.
Dangit! Just finished the latest attack of WhOA, and now y’all have to go and make me want a B whistle . . .
Glauber’s right, guitarists love the key of E.
Hmm, that would be A (major).
One of my more heavily used whistles.
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Hmm, that would be A (major).
One of my more heavily used whistles.
I meant a whistle that XXX XXX is B and ‘normal’ playing produces the minor scale…
Daniel Bingamon already produces whistles like this in some of the minor modes and would probably produce them in others if asked. As a matter of curiosity, why won’t an a whistle do the job you want done well enough?
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Hmm, that would be A (major).One of my more heavily used whistles.
I meant a whistle that XXX XXX is B and ‘normal’ playing produces the minor scale…
Daniel Bingamon already produces whistles like this in some of the minor modes and would probably produce them in others if asked. As a matter of curiosity, why won’t an a whistle do the job you want done well enough?
I don’t need any ‘job done’, I just stated I’d like to have a ‘true’ B minor whistle. An A whistle probably would do the job, but that wasn’t what I wanted in a perfect world, just within the talk of odd and unusual keys (the subject of this post). And, I admit, I just like to be special. 
Now stop grilling me, people (half kidding 
)!
Yeah!! Yeaahhhh!!! Symphony in B!!!
(gasp)
Second keys are important as well, aren’t they? but with a Modal D/C, you can have third (G) and even fourth (F)…
Feadan, good suggestion about C#. but I can’t afford one yet.
What stings you with hideous hook?
What follows the letter A?
Now I know you know you want it
Whistle in the key of ___ !
Yes, I do make a whistle that play B as a bell note and proceeds up through the minor key. That is harmonic, melodic or natural minor scales.
Minor keys are great!
But Daniel, if Cran bought one of your whistles, he’d cease to be special.
But Wombat…I already have one of Daniel’s whistles. It’s a 10 hole Chromatic low whistle. And it’s blue! So I’m already special!!