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It seems like Le Meur just posted about making something for this on Facebook. I’ve never played one of his. FWIW Mike Burke’s and Chris Abell’s whistles break down into 3 pieces, but they’re pretty high end to be toting about in your pocket. Though I often can be found with a Burke D in my purse. ...

Direct link to review: http://tinwhistler.com/Reviews/Details/73 Shush Whistle Pro Review (Review written May 2024) Preface I don't aggressively seek out whistles to review these days. I've hit most of the major players, and while I'll occasionally pick up a new whistle, I don't buy them nearly as o...

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Whoops, sorry..it was Catskills Irish Arts Week in 2019 when I got the books.

I did the Cillian Vallely class in 2021 at O'Flaherty

I picked these up from Mary herself at O'Flaherty's in 2021 when I was taking a whistle class from her there. I wanted to do my part to help support her trip to the venue. They've sat on a shelf ever since. Books are in new quality, and include the follow-along CDs (for those who still have a CD pla...

Well done! Is the wood grain version the second picture in your post? I was curious what the difference between walnut and wood grain was. Also, does the PLA infused with wood sound any different or does it sound just he same as the pure PLA? Eric Thanks! The wood grain is the 2nd pic. Walnut just ...

So, I've taken the plunge and set up a maker's website at https://mahanwoodwinds.squarespace.com All of April, I was selling whistles at the local Renaissance festival, and was able to get my process down to where it was very repeatable and consistent, so I finally felt comfortable opening up a site...

It's almost definitely an old Chieftain.

I haven't been super active in writing whistle reviews lately. Mostly because I'm not hustling to get new whistles to review--once the site stopped paying for itself, it was a challenge to buy lots of whistles. It's much easier to do that with ad income than personal income. But occasionally a maker...

In my last update, I had made a custom whistle for someone in Germany. I decided I liked the look of the whistle so much, I got some additional wood-infused filament that had a nice gradient effect, and made a handful of whistles with it. I really like how they turned out! https://i.imgur.com/EcJSaB...

You know that finger-stretch of putting the lower-hand ring finger on Hole 6 way down there? And how much more comfortable it is to use the lower-hand little finger to cover Hole 6 instead? I've been using my pinkie on the bottom hole since like 1998. You don't know how many times people have told ...

I earned 3 patents, long ago. I had to learn to navigate the site in order to show off to friends, family, acquaintances

pancelticpiper wrote: ↑Tue Mar 05, 2024 3:52 am I tried to look up the Patent but evidently it's quite a process.

https://ppubs.uspto.gov/dirsearch-publi ... df/1103462

Should be a direct link to the patent's PDF.

For some reason, making the post longer was encountering server errors, so I'm breaking it up into 2 parts. Sorry! https://youtu.be/yt_i_rOTejY Here's the video of the whistle. ----------------- So, by a happy accident, and not because of anything I did especially to cause it, my whistles work very ...