Does anyone have experience with a Whistlesmith whistle? I have a Susato A that requires the pipers grip in the right hand and some no-name A I got cheap from Ebay that isn't in tune with itself. I wanted to get an A that doesn't require the pipers grip to play and Whistlesmith says that the tone holes on their A model can be played easily by a woman with small hands. At least the price certainly is right ($35.00). I just don't know anything about their whistles. What do you think?
Last edited by benbrad on Sun Jan 20, 2008 12:12 am, edited 2 times in total.
I've got three of his whistles. A high D a low G and a low F. I like the low G the most, plays very nice an sounds good. The F is also nice, but tends to clog. The only one I don't like is his high D, it takes too much air and I don't like the sound of it.
I have a low D, which is longer than an A, and I find it easy to finger without the piper's grip. I like the instrument, but then it's the only low D I've played.
By the way, I have to play D flute using the piper's grip.
Thanks for your help. I probably won't order it judging from what I've heard from everyone. I had hoped it might be a pretty decent A whislte for a little bit of money. I wish there was a way to try before you buy.
I think the A might be a nice one. The only one that we don't like are the soprano ones, but the A model looks a lot more like the low G model I have and I really like that one.
Iwanttotoot, may I suggest that next time you get a whistle that you can't cozy up to (i.e., can't get to sound right), instead of throwing it out, offer it to another whistler free of charge. I find that sometimes, a whistle that sounds awful in the hands of one player will sound pretty good when played by another. To make good music, whistler and whistle have to be able to get together musically (dare I say spiritually?), and what doesn't work for you might for someone else.