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Wait a minute! You mean to tell me that there are places where you can actually PLAY the whistles in the store? (Can ya tell I'm a newbie?) Does anyone know of any in Cleveland, Ohio, USA?

On a side note, how do they "clean" them between customers?

I'm a relatively new whistler. I piddled around on a cheapie Feadog for a few months and recently bought a Sausato. I have pretty much gone through the two books I have -- one that came with the Feadog and the other a Mel Bay book -- "Teaching Yourself the Tinwhistle". I'm just at the poin...

On 2002-06-09 00:26, Ridseard wrote: my (tweaked) Acorn has a very sweet second octave (but an abominably weak D and E in the first octave). I should mention that on my VSB, I was surprised at how hard it is so get good tone on the first D compared to the Feadog. You really have to nail the breath ...

I am a fairly new whistler, having picked up a cheapie Feadog at a souvenir shop at a theme park and then finding that I enjoyed learning it. But I found the Feadog to be very hard to get good tone with any notes above the second octave E and grew frustrated. So I bought a Kildare VSB, based on the ...

I am just learning and the first tune I could play well was Amazing Grace. May be a bit solemn though for a festival.

<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: FJohnSharp on 2002-06-01 00:01 ]</font>