Wishing everyone a happy and positive new year!  🕊 🕯 🎏

@strumelia

Not sure really , I'll just whistle through some tunes I know,maybe some recorder tunes. Or Christmas tunes!

Larry, I hope you have a fun birthday. A Sweetone... sounds like a sweet gift!

Do you have a particular 'go to' tune you plan to immediately start to practice or play when you get the whistle?

Well I'm getting a whistle for my birthday next sunday, a Clarke Sweetone. And though I have neglected my whistle playing I'd like to get back into it. I'm quite looking forward to trying out the Sweetone!

Hmmm, we're back into December again now... anyone have any New Year's musical goals or resolutions they hope to work on for the new year?

Had another go with my flute head on my Dixon Duo, it was much better this time, so it was just my unfamiliarity with it.

Yippee!

My (made to order) Shearwater low 'F' just arrived....... so after checking it over, & warming it up..... I gave it a blow.......

It's comfortable to hold, has a lovely tone, & a fairly easy second octave - I'd say it is well worth the money.

It's more breathy than my high 'D'  ABS piccolo & my delrin low 'D' flute, but may just be down to my technique with it.

Early days....

I thought that one of the known differences between flutes and whistles is the more breathiness involved with playing flutes.  But maybe I'm wrong, or maybe it wouldn't effect a whistle with a flute head put on it?  

My Duo just came this morning.

First impressions :-

Whistle nice tone & fairly easy second octave.

With the flute head, breathy, (but could just be me, as I'm still finding my embouchure for flutes).

The Duo is an aluminium body with two heads in ABS plastic, one is a whistle, the other is a flute, & yes, tunable.

( URL=DX206 PICCOLO/ WHISTLE DUO )

What do you mean by a 'duo'?  Brass and polymer? Trad?  And are they tunable?

It's all in the details... we want to know!   

A Tony Dixon Duo in C to join the 'collection' too, (just ordered).

I didn't actually make any New Year Resolutions..............as they usually get broken...........& this year would have been no different!

Shearwater Low F on order.

Indeed... Happy New Year to you all ! 

Happy New Year.

It just arrived, & I could hardly wait to get it out of its box.........it has a lovely tone.

(Can't find anything wrong with it to class it as a 'B' stock item.)

....& now, owing to a thread 'on another forum', I will soon be having a Low 'D' Howard joining the 'collection'.

As I found out that they sell 'B' stock at considerably less - so whilst it may not be perfect to look at, it should still sound & play perfectly.

(... & I don't really play anything much higher than my 'A' whistles now that I have them, truth be known.)

P.S. As it isn't the New Year yet, no resolution has been broken.

Wow Keith I think you are doing pretty well

I Have

1xTony Dixon DX001 (D)

1xTony Dixon Brass Trad (D)

1xBrass Killarney (D)

1xJerry Freeman tweaked Generation (D)

1XSusato Kildare (D)

1xClarke with a wooden fipple (D)

1xFeadog (D)

1xClarke Meg (D)

1xClarke Meg (C)

1x Generation (Eb)

I think it's safe to say you are winning this race

  Well, aparently, I have 3x Tony Dixon, (2x alto 'A', 1x alto 'G'), 3x Clarkes, (2x 'C', 1x 'D'), a Feadog 'D', a Waltons 'D', a Dixon ABS 'D', plus 14x various Generations.............................................how'm I doin'.........

Merry Xmas, all.

He who dies with the most whistles wins!!

And a lot easier to take out caroling than a piano.

Collecting whistles is way cheaper than collecting guitars or violins.  !

I can relate. After you have the first three of any type of instrument, my criteria then becomes:  if you spend more time reading about or shopping for another one than you do actually playing ones you have... then maybe you need to rethink.  

So, having purchased a number of whistles recently, I was thinking that, maybe, I should make a resolution not to purchase any more...........