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A friend of mine has a Burke and it's very good. I have a narrow-bore G from Colin Goldie, one of the first three he made with a smaller bore, and it really is a great whistle. I don't see a choice of bore sizes for G on his website, so perhaps he's making them all like that now - are you, Colin?

This discussion has been very interesting and--dare I say it?--edifying.

There's something interesting that I've noticed about my Dixon polymer G. Of all the whistles I own, and all that I've played, in any key, it has more consistency of timbre across the octaves than any other. When you go from C or C# to middle D, there's no discontinuity; nothing to suggest a change of instruments. It's just one consistent sound all the way up. I have no idea why this should be, but in my experience (which is quite limited, and includes no high-end whistles) it's unique. Every other whistle I've played, including the high D Dixon Trads, sounds like a somewhat different instrument is swapped in when you go to the 2nd octave. I can understand why that happens; I just can't understand why the Dixon low G avoids it. Or why I have the delusion that it does.

Ubizmo