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Hi! I'm the shipper/office mgr for Ralph at Sweetheart Flutes. I don't believe the email sweetheartflute@aol.com received anything, and the best address for a reply is ralphsweet@aol.com and Ralph always always always answers his mail. To my knowledge, so does Walt, but I don't have his email so I c...

And further, if you want to play with the scammers (I'm finding out how long I can keep them strung along) this is the sort of response you get from their oh-so-secure shipper (the reader is invited to count the stylistic errors, misuse of common English, and curious acceptance that jakesrobinson is...

Look out for jakesrobinson@gmail.com too. Scam, but NOT QUITE as reported. They will not give out a credit card until the package is ready to ship. The credit card number may be freshly stolen and will not cause problems for months. OR the payment is cancelled/put on hold immediately after the goods...

Hi Lace! Welcome to the board...try looking up JC's Tunefinder and see if that gives you the music you need.

oh heck, let me just find and post the link...

http://ecf-guest.mit.edu/~jc/cgi/abc/tunefind

"P.V. (Patrick Vincent) O'Donnell, fiddler from Buncrana on Co. Donegal's Inishowen peninsula died early this morning, January 28, 2011, at the hospice unit of Manchester Memorial Hospital, Manchester, CT. P.V. spent roughly equal thirds of his life in Donegal, Nova Scotia and Connecticut. He i...

More a demo than a review, but nicely done: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ww0AA-enzH8 agreed! I can't really do any better so I'll let it stand for itself. Only mistake was calling it a Sweetheart whistle, when it is a WDSweet instrument. I love my Resonance, and the Onyx certainly stands alongsid...

No, the Onyx is nothing like Sweetheart's whistle from 13 years ago. <grin> in fact Sweetheart whistles are nothing like Sweetheart whistles from 13 years ago! These are available now in small quantity, from http://www.wdsweetflutes.com Walt is on his way over here right now...if anyone has Skype, y...

Parkwood wrote:How did you manage to run over your whistle?!

Sheer brilliance, Parkwood. I'm known for it.

I unpacked the car, accidentally dropped the whistle and didn't notice until I returned to my parking space and picked up the shattered, flattened, bludgeoned remains.

IMO going from a flute to a whistle is a step backward. You lose expressive range with the loss of the embouchure. If you are taking a low whistle and trying to fit a flute head on it, you're still going to have big issues. Physics be damned, that body design will (hopefully) be fine tuned to one me...

I have the Kerry low D mentioned by the OP, and I agree that it's a wind sucker, in terms of volume of air needed in the 2nd octave. I use high G for the wind test, and with a full lungful I can play that note for 8 seconds, remembering to start the count at zero. Ubizmo Thirteen seconds for me on ...

My needs for a whistle are simple: make it easy for me to make pleasant music. The Onyx has surely done that in the category of Low D whistle. Tyg, is the Onyx a brand new low D design or is it Ralph's current low D made from a different material? This low D is not from Sweetheart Flute Co...it is ...

So I'm back from the great Westbrook Fife and Drum Muster, and utterly unplanned, in possession of a new low D. First, a brief bio for those of you who may not know me. I began whistling about 10 years ago, playing in a local session for about 7 years, and have collected and sold and traded many whi...

Please, a moment of silence for my Freeman Gen D whistle, which met and untimely death at the tire of my Honda CRV this week. It is a sad, sad thing. Sad and flat. And broke to bits.

and Mini-Atlantis Mini-Hubble right behind!

I can't tolerate the moviegoing public any more, so I tend to watch at home. I can't tolerate Netflix when 2 of every 3 discs I get from them are damaged to the point of being unable to view. I catch what I can on the premium channels, and go to the library for the rest.