Verified!!!! Oak = Feadóg

pao · Post by **pao** » Fri Jul 08, 2005 8:49 pm

Follow-up to my first investigation http://chiffboard.mati.ca/viewtopic.php ... ht=#365088

I have verified/confirmed the info about Fead¢g and Oak. Well, it turned out just fine. I have contacted the Fead¢g Company and they've told me that THEY DO punch the holes/make the whistle body of the Oak and Acorn whistles for Music Sales in USA. The mouthpiece The Oak D mouthpiece is the only unique to Oak and some of the Acorns that uses the same mouthpiece (some Acorns before uses the mouthpiece of the Fead¢g Mark I).
But the Oak C uses the mouthpiece of the Mark III Fead¢g C.
So, I am right. Fead¢g and Oak/Acorn is somehow the same - Especially the C!!!

scarhand · Post by **scarhand** » Sat Jul 09, 2005 1:25 am

i got my son (6) a yellow acorn (his favorit color) and i'm teaching him hot cross buns and yankee doodle and easy stuff like that and that whistle and my feadog sounded so similar, even with the yellow. it's good to know i'm not imagining things!

Walden · Post by **Walden** » Sat Jul 09, 2005 2:28 am

I want an Oak whistle.

Jayhawk · Post by **Jayhawk** » Sat Jul 09, 2005 7:55 am

Shoot Walden - I sold my Oak on a garage sale just a few weeks ago or I'd ship it to you for postage. It was a very good whistle, but I'm not a fan of nickel whistle bodies. I also sold a Feadog on that garage sale, and I had also noticed how those were two of the most in tune cheap whistle I own. I did prefer the Oak head over the feadog, but prefer my O'Briain tweaked Feadog over both (which is what I kept).

Good investigative work!

Eric

monkey587 · Post by **monkey587** » Sat Jul 09, 2005 8:18 am

Walden wrote:I want an Oak whistle.

My Oak C is playable and decent now but it took a LOT of work to get it to that point. the inside of the top of the barrel was ragged like barbed wire and that really messed up the tone. I sanded it with coarse sandpaper for about a half hour to get it to sound good.