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Hello David!! Good to hear your still whistlemaking

... drift... I enjoy you all whether comments are good, bad, or ugly and I'm glad that I toughed it out here on C&F Forums since ...

... I saw an old no name flute with 5 keys. The state was really ugly : lot of gummy stuff on the wood, a crack in the barrel and probably ... masking tape around) and cleaned the keys. Things are going not so bad ! Once all the wood is cleaned, I used steel wool, to have a deeper cleaning. ...

... for a couple of hours. A bit scary, and too bad, because I liked that flute otherwise. All the ... wood (for free). It is known for making really good fence posts. Supposedly, it can survive untreated ... is relatively mundane in appearance. It is not ugly, per se, just not as pretty as many other ...

I used to use a micronta brand thermometer/hygrometer I got at a Radio Shack for under $10 because I saw that model used in a medical research study. But it’s been discontinued, and mine died an ugly death from bad batteries.

... When I made my newer F the holes came out tiny and it sounded really bad so I used the tuning slide to pull it out and cut the end off and enlarged ... in the hole to slightly enlarge it to perfect tuning. This looks ugly though haha.

... and been up and down the spectrum on what is good, bad and ugly. Finally, i just decided to purchase and move forward with the ...

I've seen some good repairs and not so good repairs done by my clients. ... it, no paying attention to humidity or just plain bad luck. Usually the ugly bead of superglue or glop forced into a crack. Some then ...

Not really bad headline writing, but just plain strange, is the headline I saw in a local paper when I was visiting my mom back in West Virginia: BIG UGLY WOMAN KILLED IN CRASH My mom didn't see the strangeness, because there's a place called Big ...

... difficult to play". Except it wasn't/isn't. I still have the ugly thing. It certainly isn't great but it does play quite decently. I was having a bad embouchure day or at least not adjusting well when I did the clips - there were/have ...

... an angled neck. It's an easy Low C to play. The finger-stretch isn't bad, at least to me it doesn't seem any worse than many Low Ds. This is a ... shortening the whistle around 1/8 inch. It plays in tune now, but looks ugly. Then there's a G which plays very well. (It was around so I threw it ...

... an angled neck. It's an easy Low C to play. The finger-stretch isn't bad, at least to me it doesn't seem any worse than many Low Ds. This is a ... shortening the whistle around 1/8 inch. It plays in tune now, but looks ugly. Then there's a G which plays very well. (It was around so I threw it ...

... I first opened the tube I realized this is an ugly whistle. I don't understand the appeal of bright ... when I bought mine. I don't think it looks too bad, myself... ...Concerning the somewhat weak low ... that is), I thought the D and E were pretty good on mine-I'm happy they are that strong. ...

When I first opened the tube I realized this is an ugly whistle. I don't understand the appeal of bright carnival colored red, but, ... though not as cheap as it was when I bought mine. I don't think it looks too bad, myself. However, if a whistle is weak in the bottom and hard in the top, ...

... kinda whistler. I have learned an awful lot of good information about craftsmanship, care and maintenance ... about the history of some of the tunes, good, bad, or ugly, history which I also enjoy. And I have acquired a ...