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We all knew this day was coming, but I'm still deeply saddened by Shane's passing. I was kinda hoping he'd beat the odds and live to a ripe old age like Keith Richards, but no such luck. It was The Pogues who introduced me to the Irish whistle, so I owe Shane and the rest of the band for that major ...

I'm changing my internet service provider again, and this time I've moved my website somewhere that won't be affected by such changes in the future. Fingers crossed that this will be the last time I have to move it. https://humphreywhistles.github.io/

It's back online now. They said it was a DNS server issue of some kind that caused the outage.

You're right, it was there yesterday. Not sure what's going on, as there has been no notice from my ISP that free personal web space was being discontinued. I'll have to get in touch with customer support during business hours tomorrow and find out.

Is anyone here aware of recent changes to customs regulations in EU countries that now requires a copy of the invoice to be included with the customs documents? I recently shipped whistles to Belgium and Hungary, and both customers are having difficulty getting customs to release their packages beca...

I still have that whistle, and still love it. That old post was made around the time I started dabbling with making my own whistles. I've now enjoyed an almost twenty-year career as a whistle maker, but I still play a few whistles made by other people. The big hole Overton has remained a favorite, a...

Hi I bought it somewhere around the mid-noughties, I guess. It's numbered "9" on the back of the head, and is made in Delrin. It was quite expensive IIRC, at around £200. I don't think he made many of them. b I'm pretty sure you're referring to one of Paul Hayward's "Silkstone" ...

Hi Beth, good to see you back! Still several of us old-timers lurking around the forums even though we're not all very active posters anymore. I hope you enjoy rediscovering the whistle!

To say that 2020 was a rough year is probably the understatement of the decade, but here's hoping that 2021 will be better for everyone. This morning marks one week since I left my job as a nurse in a long-term care facility, and there have been 16 new cases of COVID-19 among the patients during tha...

Just in case anyone is wondering about me, I'm still here and still making whistles. I gained a reputation for being quick to reply to emails and having short wait times while I was making whistles full time, but I'm a bit slower nowadays. After completing my BSN degree back in December, I've been w...

Glenn once told me the brown fipple plugs were made from Ciba-Geigy epoxy resin, and the pink ones were made from some kind of modeling polymer that he salvaged from the scrap bins at GM. At least that's the way I remember it. I don't have that particular correspondence archived, and my memory isn't...

The broken English and poor design of the page are pretty clear indications that this is not a legitimate site. It looks like they have a bot scraping eBay posts or something, and the fact that it's not easy to buy anything makes me think something very nefarious is going on. I'm guessing you're no...

I assume John uses 9/16" OD tubing for his C whistles, but I've never had the opportunity to measure one. If so, a Generation, Feadog, or Oak C tube could be persuaded to fit with about the same amount of elbow grease and determination that's necessary for the D tube modification.

I've made replacement tubes for damaged Sindts before. They're not exact matches for the original, but still work just fine.

I've been using a 2-1/2" diameter side milling cutter for my lip radius for seventeen years, because that's the smallest diameter available for my 7/8" Sherline arbor. From what I can gather, there's no such thing as a side milling cutter smaller than 2" diameter, so I wonder what's t...