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What is this whistle?(VICEROY)
Posted: Sat Oct 21, 2006 8:11 pm
by kosuke
Hello all.
Coud you give me information about this whistle?
Stamped VICEROY ,MADE IN ENGLAND on the fipple.
Posted: Sat Oct 21, 2006 8:42 pm
by King Friday
that blue one's really cool in a really tacky way
Posted: Sat Oct 21, 2006 9:14 pm
by Walden
That's a Viceroy. These were made in England. They had plastic tops.
Posted: Sat Oct 21, 2006 9:25 pm
by PhilO
...and they come in colors and have teeny B and F tone holes...
Philo
Posted: Sat Oct 21, 2006 9:34 pm
by Rod Sprague
Oh boy, yet another whistle mystery!
Posted: Sun Oct 22, 2006 4:58 am
by Flogging Jason
Posted: Sun Oct 22, 2006 9:10 am
by mutepointe
too bad the red fipples don't come in other colors to actually match the rest of the whistle. i do like the blue.
Posted: Sun Oct 22, 2006 1:52 pm
by CHIFF FIPPLE
PhilO wrote:...and they come in colors and have teeny B and F tone holes...
Philo
B hole ?
OXXOOO C
That's a Viceroy. These were made in England. They had plastic tops.
And they had VICEROY ,MADE IN ENGLAND moulded on the fipple.
Posted: Sun Oct 22, 2006 1:55 pm
by CHIFF FIPPLE
Posted: Sun Oct 22, 2006 1:56 pm
by Denny
C# & G holes
it's a bloody plage it is.
Posted: Sun Oct 22, 2006 2:08 pm
by CHIFF FIPPLE
Denny wrote:C# & G holes
it's a bloody plage it is.
yes
but I never say things like that
Posted: Sun Oct 22, 2006 2:10 pm
by Denny
CHIFF FIPPLE wrote:Denny wrote:C# & G holes
it's a bloody plage it is.
yes
but I never say things like that
well!
I've never been much of a lady...
Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 11:20 pm
by Rod Sprague
Walden wrote:That's a Viceroy. These were made in England. They had plastic tops.
They could be counterfeits made in a third world sweat shop by slave labor.
Posted: Wed Oct 25, 2006 8:28 am
by doogieman
I bought a "Saxaflute" whistle off Ebay some time ago. The one I got was in really bad shape - windway smashed in and all. With a little work it is in playing shape again and is - at best - a fair whistle. It plays in B. And it's surprising the amount of thought and engineering that went into this - look at the fancy little "bump" in the wood part of the fipple. Actuallya pretty cool piece!
My grandson likes to play "the Red one"!
Posted: Wed Oct 25, 2006 12:09 pm
by StevieJ
I have a couple of those Viceroy heads. I can't remember when and where I got them - dim recollection of buying them in a music store that had a box full of them for a few pennies, no bodies. They are wide - wider than a Gen Bb body. But once you do fit them onto something, they sound pretty weak.
It's funny but with that name, you'd expect them to made in India. Presumably the brand name predates Indian independence anyway (1947), if not the articles themselves. Hmm. They might be made of bakelite...