Anyone comments about ‘Williams’ whistles?
Never heard of them myself, can’t find anything either:
Any info welcome
It’s the Professional Equivalent of the penny whistle!!
Apart from the (seller’s) utter nonsense about “Low whistles have a far superior quality” and “Players who wish to play a low D should always play a low G first” … No, not familiar with Williams. 
The sales rhetoric is superb (must be tongue in cheek … surely)
I like this comment:
‘These are expensive instruments carried by few music shops’
By that he mean ‘NO’ music shops as the most exhaustive Google search draws a total blank!!
The mouthpiece/fipple looks a bit Alba/Chieftain V3 like, but I wonder what gauge the tube is with that ‘Williams’ embossed so heavily
It’s earned him a ‘few coins’ so it must be ‘professional’ sounding, he is remiss in not pointing out that you need to play a Bb ‘as a bridge’ to the Low G
Maybe the owner’s name is William, so this is William’s whistle. You can get practically anything customised these days.
I need to know more so I’ve sent him the following message:
Hello, I’m a long time whistler (as are many of my cohorts) yet none of us are familiar with a ‘Williams’ whistle (nor is Google)
Can you tell me more about this item, where you purchased it from, when etc
It’s certainly is very professional looking instrument
Most grateful for any information
I will let you know ‘Williams’ response
Item in the UK, there is no reserve on it
Now I’ve never really used eBay but if there’s no reserve why’s it got a start price of £40? Surely if there was no reserve starting price would be £0??? 
If you set a ‘reserve’ on an item, you set a minimum price you are willing to sell at. I had the ‘winning’ bid on a Kerry Pro Low F recently (£51.99) but the seller had set a ‘reserve’ of £100.00 so I didn’t get it sadly.
The seller can set any starting price on eBay. That way the seller can set a minimum acceptable selling price without setting a reserve. The reserve price with a zero starting price can spark interest in some bidders but many experienced buyers on eBay won’t even look at an auction with an unstated reserve price. So it all comes down to the seller’s tactical thinking.
And in regards to the whistle in question, I’ve never seen or heard of a Williams whistle like that one. Maybe it is the long sought after Hank Williams Lonesome Whistle number one! The seller certainly has a gift for whoo-ha in their auction descriptions. I did not know that the plastic mouthpiece was the greatest innovation in re(^(&er design until just now. You have to read the one about the crystal snail shell.
Feadoggie
The ‘lost 17’ 
These notes are very helpful:
Note 1: I live in a place where you have to drive to the post office, so postage is not only the price of stamps. Sorry about this
Note 2: If you think you would like to own this whistle, please bid, even if you only bid the minimum amount. You may not be at a computer when the auction ends..
I thought the whistle reminded me of something, but let’s not cloud the issues.
The ‘yoke’ ?
Tell us more
Those holes look HUGE
What I know about Williams whistles is that they
were made in the north east of England and were
made in keys of G, F and D and were pretty much
a copy of a Cheiftain V3.
I think there were only a dozen or so made.
I’ve played one in F owned by a Northumbrian piper friend.
It played quite nicely from what I can remember.
Edit..forgot to mention, they were sold from just one
or two shops and sold for around £100.
I don’t do ebay so I can’t discuss all that stuff you blokes are going on about but when someone says Williams I think of Williams flutes made in England. Might he have made whistles also? Is that the Dave Williams who died in 2004?
I have a traditional music instrument catalogue I picked up in London in 1993 which lists two wooden Williams D flutes, one unkeyed and the other 4 keyed.
Different Williams,
as far as I know this one is still alive and kicking.
Brings to mind the old quote ‘The reports of my death are greatly exaggurated’
Mark Twain I believe.
Lots of new info, thanks for that
I do wonder why anyone would want to copy the Chieftain V3
Thanks Trout Mask and Feadoggie for you explanations.
A polite response from the seller of the ‘Williams’ whistle (I was hoping it would be in the style of his Ebay descriptions) :
Hi,
I also have a Chieftain Low D and the low G looks identical (except for the size, obviously), so actually until yesterday I had thought it was a Chieftain. I bought it at JG Windows in Newcastle in December 2009 and it cost 79.99 then. Or, if it helps, it looks exactly like this one: http://www.hobgoblin.com/local/GR2232G_p_Chieftain-Low-G-Whistle-V3-page.htm\
Hope this helps…?
I wonder what happened yesterday to disabuse the notion it was a V3?
(Did they notice the ‘Williams’ stamped on the back?)
i got 2 williams wistles a g and an f and there great i paid a lot for them over £100 but it was worth as there much better than other whistles. you only get them in the northeast huray northumbria!!!