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[Thread revival. - Mod] I thought that first post would have generated lots of comments from the pro-garlic eating whistle players, with lots of enthusiastic stories about how garlicified Irish whistlery is the way pros keep an edge. Has anyone tried storing their whistle in a bag of crushed garlic...

I was hankering for a heap o' fine hummus
To settle a cantankerous stomach
But first I consumed
My hot plate of legumes
And then my whistle clogged up with detritus

I think something that odd needs to be hanging on the wall in a pub, so people can have a contest: you buy a "yard of ale" or a pint of premium ale, and you can have the beer free if you can figure out how to drink their beer in under 1 minute, using that contraption. Judges will be other ...

I bought a Tony Dixon DX006, the aluminum, in D and I'm quite pleased with it's tone, precise sound of the notes, intonation, loudness, responsiveness to various air pressures, and playability through the full two octaves and a little higher. It's not expensive. I'm curious about this whistle. Woul...

Should be fixable.

Ever seen a whistle with an undercut blade? I'm very curious about the possibility or usefulness of an undercut being put on a whistle blade (the sharp edge in the window where the air is split after it leaves the mouthpiece's windway). Almost all whistle blade designs are overcut designs; are angle...

It's great to learn the many tweeks, the reasons and results. While I'm not one of Generation's dedicated millrights or sheet metal hobbyists, I simply don't have the toolset, I can keep these things in mind. I have ideas occasionally about whistle design, either to improve one of the lesser-cost mo...

I've recorded a variety of instruments through high sensitivity studio mics. With instruments like flute and whistle, that have a narrow zone of air and sound coming out of them at high pressure, you should try to aim the instrument a little off to the side, rather than directly aiming at the microp...

I've only been learning about the higher quality whistles for about two years, and this issue hit me early on. If the whistle isn't already called "high", then I need to see a photo of it, so I can tell it's length and therefore it's pitch. The variation of names in the alto range is annoy...

I bought a Tony Dixon DX006, the aluminum, in D and I'm quite pleased with it's tone, precise sound of the notes, intonation, loudness, responsiveness to various air pressures, and playability through the full two octaves and a little higher. It's not expensive. As a long-time wind instrument player...

I'm not sure of the physical properties of air vibrating within a square tube, but I'm wondering if it sets up an intonation and harmonic resonance capacity superior to that of round tubes. I would suspect that intonation problems could be fixed easier. And what about using a tapered/conical square,...

I've found some high whistles with some appealing tone and playability, at least as shown in YouTube performance. (I'll check into the Humphrey as well). The Ceol Pro and SilverStar models (made by Nick Metcalf), the Anak, the Carbony and an unknown (still waiting a response from the player in the v...

Have you found one? I'm searching for whistles up in the key of high F or high G (above soprano D) that sound excellent. They must be extremely rare! I've only found one model played online (YouTube) that sounds quite good (Anak), but surely there are more somewhere. Do you have any experience with...