I recently started playing the low D. You are much better than me. Question, I noticed before you play you suck through the mouthpiece of the fipple. Is that better than sucking through the window? Thanks in advance ( I'm asking as a novice sorry if this question sounds elementary)
Questions are great, especially for people learning in isolation. I'm actually blowing through the windway (covering the window). Some people suck through the windway when they're in the middle of playing. I blow through the windway before I start to warm it up before I play, trying to reduce clogging, and afterwards to clear it of moisture. Blowing through the window (what you're doing) might work for the warming part, warming the fipple block, which is where moisture tends to collect, but it might not be effective for clearing purposes. I'll have to experiment to see if focusing on the block before I play is better for clog prevention. Interesting question.
43 whistles and the question remains :-p Colin Goldie vs MK Pro :-p btw Chieftain has a new improved Low D tuneable model, very interesting! "Customs" check it out ;-)
I sent back a Thunderbird low D to exchange for a new Custom Low D, but that was over a month ago, and Phil has yet to receive it. Might be gone forever. As for MK vs. Goldie, the answer is both :)
@@NathanielDowell Aww man that sucks! Do upload your impressions if you ever get it! It seems the prices have gone up for both Goldies and MK's so the Chieftain Customs with traits of both and Phil's unique take, seems very tempting (more volume, more backpressure, closer hole position, more character in the sound, at 100 pounds / 125USD less on average). Sounds like a much better whistle and a sweet deal to me. I do feel from the sound demo on Phil's channel, the MK has more attack in the sound and Goldie has more harmonics. But without playing you don't really know, and surprisingly almost no reviews to be found? Not even on Chiff and Fipple forum.
About 43, including each Reviol body as one whistle, and counting the three that are out on extended loan, and also counting the flutes as whistles. I play about half of them with any kind of regularity. I don't know how the Reviols will enter the rotation yet, but I suspect I'll be playing the Eb on the low head, and the A or G on the alto head. The volume issue for the A and G might make them better for walking trips or noisy sessions. The low C would be for when I play with my Grandmother, who plays piano and knows most of the tunes in C, although I don't know if it's going to have enough volume for it with it being such a narrow bore. I may have to continue my search for the ideal low C, or make my own one of these days.
I have 3 Goldies, 2 MK, 1 Carbony, 3 Chieftains (1 on loan), 3 Shearwaters (2 on loan), 8 new Reviols (2 whistle heads with 8 bodies), a Copley Delrin Flute, two Doug Tipple PVC flutes, a Generation Bb, a Tillbury C, a Woodstock by Clarke in D (Sweetone), a Chris Wall D, and a Freeman Tweaked Mellow Dog D. Most of these are whistles that I tend to cycle through on a regular basis. The flutes get picked up every now and again, when I feel the urge come upon me to become proficient, but the feeling has never stuck around long enough to get me to play regularly. Fluting generally feels like more work than it's worth.
angelicbeaver Woah, I didn't expect that many! They soon add up though especially as you have been at it a while now. It is a lot better than guitars though; they would get a lot more expensive. I love how you make your own whistles as well. I really like the sound of low whistles. The first time I saw them was on a youtube channel where a man called Nicolas plays the Morrowind theme on a low D. Do you ever play the high or low whistle in a band? I know you sing acapella style with a group.
I've not played in a band. I was asked, years ago, by a local group who wanted to do Pogue covers, but I wasn't anywhere near confident enough to do it. I feel like I might be able to do something like that in the near future, but my child care situation makes it difficult to do much in the way of extracurricular activities. Perhaps when the kids are both in school, I might have more time for something like that. For now, the most I might do is an occasional gig with some of the participants at the local session, if they wanted a whistler for anything. There aren't many whistlers in the group. I believe that my first experience hearing a low whistle was TinWhistler's "New Low Whistle Video" where he plays a OS Chieftain (I think) with his brother on guitar. I'm still trying to get someone in my family to learn guitar well enough to play with me.
angelicbeaver Interesting, Do you mean Irish wooden flutes? Just out of interest is the Carbony a low D? I think I saw your video on that one. I tried a high D of theirs out once but I was way too much of a newbie to appreciate it properly. It needed too little air but I bet if I tried one now, nearly two years later I might have a bit better idea of its characteristics. What I love about them is that they are indestructable. Great reviews though. TBH I love Generation bflats and sweetones in D as well. Sometimes the cheap whistles can have a charm of their own. I found two sweetones with a larger than average cutout on the windway at the end of the fipple and they turned out to be really load and sweet right up to the top note of the second octave. They are always good but these two were unbelievable. For six pounds you can't go wrong really. Have you ever tried a Dave Shaw low F or D?
I recently started playing the low D. You are much better than me. Question, I noticed before you play you suck through the mouthpiece of the fipple. Is that better than sucking through the window? Thanks in advance ( I'm asking as a novice sorry if this question sounds elementary)
Questions are great, especially for people learning in isolation. I'm actually blowing through the windway (covering the window). Some people suck through the windway when they're in the middle of playing. I blow through the windway before I start to warm it up before I play, trying to reduce clogging, and afterwards to clear it of moisture. Blowing through the window (what you're doing) might work for the warming part, warming the fipple block, which is where moisture tends to collect, but it might not be effective for clearing purposes. I'll have to experiment to see if focusing on the block before I play is better for clog prevention. Interesting question.
43 whistles and the question remains :-p Colin Goldie vs MK Pro :-p btw Chieftain has a new improved Low D tuneable model, very interesting! "Customs" check it out ;-)
I sent back a Thunderbird low D to exchange for a new Custom Low D, but that was over a month ago, and Phil has yet to receive it. Might be gone forever. As for MK vs. Goldie, the answer is both :)
@@NathanielDowell Aww man that sucks! Do upload your impressions if you ever get it! It seems the prices have gone up for both Goldies and MK's so the Chieftain Customs with traits of both and Phil's unique take, seems very tempting (more volume, more backpressure, closer hole position, more character in the sound, at 100 pounds / 125USD less on average). Sounds like a much better whistle and a sweet deal to me. I do feel from the sound demo on Phil's channel, the MK has more attack in the sound and Goldie has more harmonics. But without playing you don't really know, and surprisingly almost no reviews to be found? Not even on Chiff and Fipple forum.
How many whistles have you got brother? Lol Only jealous! 😏
About 43, including each Reviol body as one whistle, and counting the three that are out on extended loan, and also counting the flutes as whistles. I play about half of them with any kind of regularity. I don't know how the Reviols will enter the rotation yet, but I suspect I'll be playing the Eb on the low head, and the A or G on the alto head. The volume issue for the A and G might make them better for walking trips or noisy sessions. The low C would be for when I play with my Grandmother, who plays piano and knows most of the tunes in C, although I don't know if it's going to have enough volume for it with it being such a narrow bore. I may have to continue my search for the ideal low C, or make my own one of these days.
I have 3 Goldies, 2 MK, 1 Carbony, 3 Chieftains (1 on loan), 3 Shearwaters (2 on loan), 8 new Reviols (2 whistle heads with 8 bodies), a Copley Delrin Flute, two Doug Tipple PVC flutes, a Generation Bb, a Tillbury C, a Woodstock by Clarke in D (Sweetone), a Chris Wall D, and a Freeman Tweaked Mellow Dog D. Most of these are whistles that I tend to cycle through on a regular basis. The flutes get picked up every now and again, when I feel the urge come upon me to become proficient, but the feeling has never stuck around long enough to get me to play regularly. Fluting generally feels like more work than it's worth.
angelicbeaver
Woah, I didn't expect that many! They soon add up though especially as you have been at it a while now. It is a lot better than guitars though; they would get a lot more expensive. I love how you make your own whistles as well. I really like the sound of low whistles. The first time I saw them was on a youtube channel where a man called Nicolas plays the Morrowind theme on a low D. Do you ever play the high or low whistle in a band? I know you sing acapella style with a group.
I've not played in a band. I was asked, years ago, by a local group who wanted to do Pogue covers, but I wasn't anywhere near confident enough to do it. I feel like I might be able to do something like that in the near future, but my child care situation makes it difficult to do much in the way of extracurricular activities. Perhaps when the kids are both in school, I might have more time for something like that. For now, the most I might do is an occasional gig with some of the participants at the local session, if they wanted a whistler for anything. There aren't many whistlers in the group. I believe that my first experience hearing a low whistle was TinWhistler's "New Low Whistle Video" where he plays a OS Chieftain (I think) with his brother on guitar. I'm still trying to get someone in my family to learn guitar well enough to play with me.
angelicbeaver
Interesting, Do you mean Irish wooden flutes? Just out of interest is the Carbony a low D? I think I saw your video on that one. I tried a high D of theirs out once but I was way too much of a newbie to appreciate it properly. It needed too little air but I bet if I tried one now, nearly two years later I might have a bit better idea of its characteristics. What I love about them is that they are indestructable. Great reviews though. TBH I love Generation bflats and sweetones in D as well. Sometimes the cheap whistles can have a charm of their own. I found two sweetones with a larger than average cutout on the windway at the end of the fipple and they turned out to be really load and sweet right up to the top note of the second octave. They are always good but these two were unbelievable. For six pounds you can't go wrong really. Have you ever tried a Dave Shaw low F or D?