It is so nice to see how much attention that the little whistles get. From my experience, you can get a whistle made in any key you like. You just have to have the jingle to pay for them. I have a low E by Michael Burke which is beautiful. And a B natural AL Pro by the same maker. There may not be a whole lot of tunes that a B natural can play, but if you play the "upper" scale, you once again have the E, only in one higher octave than the low E. One of the biggest hangups that I see in whistle players is the fingering to get the sharps and flats. This was made totally clear to me by Mary Bergin. I asked her once years ago just what her technique was to play the C nat. on a D whistle. Alternate fingering or half-hole. She said she ALWAYS just half holed everything because "there are no frets on a violin". Bingo. Ah well, enough. Just glad to see that there are many folks, all with good opinions, talking about the little instruments that I love so well.

Bob Pegritz