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I only wish I could find a place where they sell it (the book without the whistle - I already own the instrument) around here (I pay almost as much for shipping as for the actual item...). Yeah. I know what you're on about. My whistle is going to be here (hopefully) by the end of next week. Unfortu...

"502 Bad Gateway" I only get this lovely message when trying to post a new reply. Thinking I need to repost, I'll do so and in the end all two messages show anyway. So there's a lot of nerve and deleting involved. :sniffle: Strangely enough this phenomenon only happens on the "chiff ...

jkrazy52 wrote: Tikva, IIRC (if I recall correctly), you said you played clarinet . That's correct - I did this so long that you could wake me late at night and I'd have no problem to read a bunch of notes even backwards if necessary. :D I'm looking for a good tutorial because I'm more interested i...

Uhm, well, call me a "Grinch", but I'm not particularly fond of Christmas Carols. When I was younger, my parents and relatives used to press me for playing some holiday tunes on my clarinet, but that's not what put me off them. It's just that they start playing them on the radio by the beg...

:lol: :lol: :lol: I have not been warned in the first place, but found out about WhOA during research about Tin Whistles very early on. - Even before making the conscious decision to buy one. While it took me about two weeks to make up my mind which model to get, I knew from day one that I'd most li...

Hello everyone! Now that my first whistle is on its way - a Dixon Trad - I'm of course looking for some instruction books. I have already found a great number of online tutorials, but seeing that a computer is not always available, I wish to purchase a book, too. Maybe you could recommend some to me...

I did address the matter of oversensitive neighbors - in my case even worse: landlords - in my newbie intro. Daisman suggested the following to me: buy a $2 package of sticky-tac and when you need to practice quietly put a 1/2 pea sized blob of it on top of the windway and push it towards the lip to...

Jayhawk, Guidus - You've just helped me enormously to make up my mind! You probably don't know it, but in my newbie intro, I have mentioned more than one time that low volume is indeed essential to my keeping a roof over my head. My tenant is extremely sensitive to any noise. Two weeks ago, he actua...

TravM63 Of my three high whistles (Clarke orignal, Feadog and Clark MEG C), the Clarke is the quietest Looks like there is yet another whistle to consider. The Clarke Original is quieter than the other two? Mmmh. I should really give this some consideration seeing that low volume is somehow essenti...

Walshman I would suggest you seriously consider a Dixon Guess what, I do already! I have actually laid my eyes on a Dixon Trad brass, a Dixon Polymer and a Susato Kildare s series. Of course all of them are High D. I haven't completely made up my mind which to buy, but I guess the Dixon Trad is mos...

So I have only been here for a few days and already I'm afraid of contracting WhOA. To be honest, this feeling started the moment I typed the "tin whistle" search request on google. If I start buying now, there'll be no going back. Maybe I should contact my banker and tell him to activate ...

Thank you for your replies so far! Jim Stone Some recorders are made of ABS plastic, so are Susatos and ABS has a sound, hence the claim. In what way do the different materials affect the "voice" of an instrument? Is it correct to assume that ABS plastic makes for a somewhat harsher sound,...

Hello all you whistlers out there! I am a complete novice to tin whistle playing. Don't even own a whistle, yet . But I am working hard to change this condition with your help. :wink: Until now I have played a hand-me-down wooden Hohner recorder and a fairly new clarinet. I have to admit that I quit...

Nickel allergy is the most common contact allergy in Central Europe; but this might as well be true for most parts of the world. The Nickel molecule itself is too small to actually cause an allergic reaction on its own. Only after binding to epidermal proteins it becomes potentially allergenic. As w...

Hello everyone! I am looking for a (preferably tunable) whistle with a somewhat "breathy" quality to it. Shrilly high notes are absolutely no-goes. Plus they sould not sound like a recorder. :wink: I have temporarily narrowed down my choices to the following three instruments: 1) Susato Ki...