paddler wrote: ↑Mon Jan 08, 2024 4:52 pm
It isn't long ago that you were telling us all how Colin Goldie whistles were out of tune and needed to be fixed. I know you've since changed your opinion, but maybe you should extrapolate a bit from these kinds of experiences. Maybe in a few weeks time you'll be telling us all about the merits of the 6-hole whistle. Its good to have revelations and be excited about them, but a lot of people on these forums have been at this for a long time and have a great deal of expertise.
And since you edited your response and added yet another misrepresentation of my position, I suppose I'll respond to that one as well.
No, I never said that Colin Goldie whistles were out of tune and "needed to be fixed." I said that my personal Goldie seemed very sharp in the second octave (the precise wording I used was "it has, if anything, the opposite problem of having too much octave spread"). And I edited that comment within a half hour of posting it, clarifying that the problem could easily be the way I was playing it and not the whistle itself, and that I was going back and forth on whether it was actually too sharp. As it turns out (and I clarified this a day or two later), the whistle was in tune, and I was the problem (I was just trying to play too loudly in the second octave).
It's extremely condescending for you to use my comments on Goldie whistles to insinuate that I'm fickle about my positions and might change my opinion regarding chromatic whistles. I made that comment about Goldie whistles the day after I received my first Goldie whistle, and I was posting my initial thoughts about it, with reservations. Naturally, my mind changed as I got used to playing it (as often happens).
I've played my Morneaux chromatic whistle for 6 years. I'm pretty sure I have a good idea about how it plays, and I'm not going to go changing my mind about how much I like it.
EDIT: I want you to know that there are no hard feelings whatsoever about this discussion. I respect everyone on here as good and experienced musicians, and I hope I don't come off as heated or annoyed. I'm really not. I'm just a bit perplexed by people's combative attitudes and wish that people would read my posts a bit more carefully.