Tell us something.: irish music, specifically slow airs played on different whistle keys, also lower keyed flutes like Bb, but only from modern makers who have managed to get the hole spacing a little closer. And finally learning some fiddle tunes, mainly slow airs again so that the whole family don't go mad with the sound of a cat being strangled.
I know there is way loads of controversy over Davy Spillane whistles, I was doing my late night ebay browse and came across a humble listing for a couple of whistle a standard high D with a green top, and an all aluminium low d which if you read the whole listing, the seller got it 8 years ago from Ireland ( THIS IS THE BEST BIT ) it was made, in his words by Davy Spillane himself, if it was how much wonga will you spend?
Where's that 'eating popcorn while waiting for the show to start' emoticon??
anniemcu
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Hey! You stole my popcorn!! Oh well... pass me the Good'nPlentys, would ya?
anniemcu
--- "You are what you do, not what you claim to believe." -Gene A. Statler
--- "Olé to you, none-the-less!" - Elizabeth Gilbert
--- http://www.sassafrassgrove.com
Tell us something.: irish music, specifically slow airs played on different whistle keys, also lower keyed flutes like Bb, but only from modern makers who have managed to get the hole spacing a little closer. And finally learning some fiddle tunes, mainly slow airs again so that the whole family don't go mad with the sound of a cat being strangled.
we should be starting a collection and buy this beauty, forget King Arthurs excalibur, and the Loch Ness monster and any other mythical things you cant blow into and see if Davy is missing one of his whistles.
sponge
I suppose you could blow into the Loch Ness monster but the upper octave might be a tad flat
anniemcu
--- "You are what you do, not what you claim to believe." -Gene A. Statler
--- "Olé to you, none-the-less!" - Elizabeth Gilbert
--- http://www.sassafrassgrove.com
I vote chieftain. It's not the whistle in Chiff and Fipple unsolved mysteries, the one he played for Riverdance.
That one looks to have the narrow head like Overton and Kerry pro.
Ramzy Berbawy
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gallant_murray wrote:I vote chieftain. It's not the whistle in Chiff and Fipple unsolved mysteries, the one he played for Riverdance.
That one looks to have the narrow head like Overton and Kerry pro.
Actually, it looks pretty darned close to the one in the ebay piccies.
anniemcu
--- "You are what you do, not what you claim to believe." -Gene A. Statler
--- "Olé to you, none-the-less!" - Elizabeth Gilbert
--- http://www.sassafrassgrove.com
gallant_murray wrote:I vote chieftain. It's not the whistle in Chiff and Fipple unsolved mysteries, the one he played for Riverdance.
That one looks to have the narrow head like Overton and Kerry pro.
Actually, it looks pretty darned close to the one in the ebay piccies.
anniemcu
--- "You are what you do, not what you claim to believe." -Gene A. Statler
--- "Olé to you, none-the-less!" - Elizabeth Gilbert
--- http://www.sassafrassgrove.com
Tell us something.: irish music, specifically slow airs played on different whistle keys, also lower keyed flutes like Bb, but only from modern makers who have managed to get the hole spacing a little closer. And finally learning some fiddle tunes, mainly slow airs again so that the whole family don't go mad with the sound of a cat being strangled.
the ebay pics dont appear to have the flattened of sides to the mouth piece, I checked on Phils site and in the news section there is a photograph of a letter that reads thanks for the whistles phil I really like the low D, perhaps the seller means it was once owned by Davy, although his ebay blurb says it was made by Davy,
I will e-mail him and see what the background is on it, I'll keep you posted
Tell us something.: irish music, specifically slow airs played on different whistle keys, also lower keyed flutes like Bb, but only from modern makers who have managed to get the hole spacing a little closer. And finally learning some fiddle tunes, mainly slow airs again so that the whole family don't go mad with the sound of a cat being strangled.
I suppose Davy could have just bought overtons and chieftains and done a bit of surgery on them, this would make them hybrids and not spillanes though.
sponge
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Tell us something.: irish music, specifically slow airs played on different whistle keys, also lower keyed flutes like Bb, but only from modern makers who have managed to get the hole spacing a little closer. And finally learning some fiddle tunes, mainly slow airs again so that the whole family don't go mad with the sound of a cat being strangled.
when did the old style chieftain first hit the market, as the seller has had it stored for 8 years in the loft, so that would give a rough production date of say 1998/1999, I not sure of all the design changes that happened or when Mr Hardy had his licence to make Overtons revoked, as I fear that is another whole can of worms, I was checking the post on the Spillane whistle last night and it did get a bit heated on the 14 pages that it ran for, although I am sure Cavefish did mention in one post that he had a contact that confirmed Davy did make Aluminium low D whistles,
sponge
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Oh well... pass me the Good'nPlentys, would ya?
