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The modern-day Clarke whistles are not the same as the ones when I were a lad. Actually, they were only in C back then, but what I mean is huge wind-way cavity that you have to blow into and the strange shape of the labium. I'm not going to tell you how to do it, or even recommend it (whistle destru...

The most likely scenario is that the manufacture of the 'folk' whistle, Generation's cheaper line, has been farmed out to a cheap labour country, just like Clarke has done with its cheaper line, the Meg. Nothing unusual or concerning there. The Generation "folk whistles" have the same &qu...

The text in the second pic: “Original Generation Folk Whistle” OK, I'll be clear, what are you saying here? You are making accusations of criminal behaviour with no actual evidence. You may think you're being all coy about your insinuations against small manufacturing companies like Generation and ...

"Kami also brings the Generation name into this."

How?

At what point does this discussion cross into the territory of libel? Just asking for a friend.

If Mullan isn't easy to locate, Glenluce is even harder. Nothing on the Companies House list, so if British it's presumably an imprint used for a range of instruments rather than the name of the maker. Mullan music used to publish their location, which was in a housing estate, not a shop where you ...

I've never heard of Mullan flutes or whistles. And can't work out from their website where they are. But their brass D whistle looks incredibly like my Killarney! And the Wild whistle looks very similar, other than the black body. Claims to be "Made in Ireland by Paraic McNeela". Hmmm, cu...

I have a Taktell Piccolino metronome made by Wittner ... allegedly in Germany for I can find no pictures or video of a metronome factory online. My suspicion is that they are actually made by whistling Gnomes in the mountains of Afghanistan. btw. Look up the EU "Rules of Origin"; no I don'...

It seems quite valid, I think. Don't believe everything you read on the interwebs. Indeed ... "The Celts were sun worshippers who practiced a pagan dance within a circular formation of stones which has some commonality to the circular formation of Irish set dancing" Sorry, but I had to la...

Mr.Gumby wrote: ↑Tue Jul 04, 2023 2:38 am This is on today, at three.

Probably shouting into my own ech chamber, but there you have it.

No, not at all. I may not post much here, but I do read

edited to add: and enjoy the photographs.

Only last summer a fine documentary on his life and music, Sean Keane: A Portrait of an Artist was premiered. He played a bit after the screening, with his brother James and Matt Molloy: This documentary was put onto Youtube the other day, and not reading the video description closely, I was simply...

It's an Overton, I know because of a conversation I had back in the day with someone (wracking my brains to remember his name) who used to work with Bernard.

I'm keeping my copy

The term "small bore" for Susato whistles only refers to the the relative bore sizes in the Susato range. ie. it's not called "small" in relation to other manufacturer's whistles or what you or I might or might not call a "small bore." The "small bore" Susato ...

Mr.Gumby wrote: ↑Fri Dec 02, 2022 2:15 pm (snip)
and the fourth was right handed but had learned the whistle with the left hand on top so she preferred to play the pipes left handed as well.
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