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Hi, Michael Burke here. I have written the Touristnm who posted this thread. I do try to answer every email and may have somehow missed their email. We sometimes are slow to answer voicemails, so emails are usually very reliable ways to get questions answered. Things have been crazy and I must have ...

Thanks for the kind remarks. We will keep the best of what was old and add a great many new features. The whisltes will always get the first attention, but my customers need better service than we have been giving on our old site, so it is a good thing to make me address the problems we have had. I ...

Hi everyone, Update on website: We hope to have the website up and running in one more week. We are accepting orders by phone and by fax for now, as well as by snail mail. Thank you again for your patience and I do hope that the changes we are making in the new site will better serve our customers. ...

Hi Chas Just to let you know that I still have about 20 or so of the D-WBB in stock, but I have taken them out of the catalog because they confuse so many new buyers and I think that they have a more limited audience of customers if that is the right word. :) 20 whistles is not enough to bother with...

Hi Everyone, Just a note to say that Ian's whistle was shipped last Saturday and he should have it in a day or two. I have already emailed him tonight. We are really busy and rely on the fact that our system sends out a confirming email because we sometimes don't have time to check things and get ba...

This thread reminds me of one of Mark Twain's short stories about an unfortunate fellow who met a friend who looked half dead muttering to himself incoherently something about buff slips for a 10 cent fare... pink slip for a two bit fare............. and then he burst out screaming "Punch in th...

Hi, Just saw this thread and thought I might as well answer it here in case anyone else wants to know. I first introduced the Viper low D in 2003. That model featured a rotating bottom joint that Joanie Madden had suggested and the new Viper head. It had a break down joint below the slide. Then, in ...

It is always a shock to hear of the death of someone you know. I met Glenn a few years ago at Celtic Fest Chicago, and we had a great time sharing our love for whistles and flutes. One guy at the Fest was playing an old English made flute that Glenn had made a replacement headpiece for. I thought it...

Jay-eye wrote:

Michael Burke wrote:Jerry played the Highland pipes and the UP as well and a little whistle.

a high G?

Well, I could say I was a "little confused", but anyone who has me knows
"little" is not the word for that either

Just saw this post about Cherish coming to Paducah. I wouldn't miss Joanie and company anywhere if I could make it, but it is only 90 minutes from Murphysboro. That Carson 4 Rivers Center is just beautiful and has great acoustics. I saw Jerry O'Sullivan there last Christmas with a Scottish group. Je...

There are a couple of Threads on this event which will be an awesome opportunity to get to learn from some of the best whistle teachers in the Universe (Joannie Madden, Brian McCoy, and Brian Kelso Crow) I have been going to this festival since 1998 and it is always a great event with the Saturday n...

Hi everyone, Joanie Madden needs no introduction. She is one of the finest entertainers in the TRAD and an awesome whistle and flute player and a great and fun person. Brian McCoy may be the best whistle and flute player I know that is not really famous. Brian plays so fast, but with such a crisp st...

Hi, I may be telling something that everyone already knows, but maybe not. Denis O'Brien was the brother of Mick O'Brien one of the very finest Uilleann Pipers in the World. Mick is a close friend and he actually has Denis's Nickel Generation whistle and let me try it once. It was the sweetest Gener...

Now this is something I don't know much about, but at risk of showing my age and ignorance, what about Ron Bushy from Iron Butterfly? Below is a note from their website Writer; and legendary for his drum solo in In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, with his primal drum patterns, that set the standard for generations...

Hi Everyone, I was just going to post a warning to whistle makers and others selling whistles about these latest generation of Nigerian flim-flammers. I have had 3 or 4 of them contact me in the last two weeks. One of them, who said he was a teacher in a music school wanted to buy 10 C whistles and ...