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Thread #93543   Message #1803165
Posted By: Bob Bolton
06-Aug-06 - 11:54 PM
Thread Name: Irish/English Whistle makers
Subject: RE: Irish/English Whistle makers
Er... G'day Foolestroupe,

I skipped my remarks on Shaw whistles ... I was going to say that Dave Shaw seems to think that all whistlers have the lung capacity of pipers!

I still don't really know how my Shaws sound ... by the time I get a reasonably coherent phrase out - hyperventilation has set in and I'm getting high on oxygen.

I have heard of "tweakers" reworking Shaw whistles ... mainly by cementing in a thin strip of plastic (~) to narrow down the windway. They are made of material much too sturdy to "nudge" in and out the way I always did with the Clarke tin whistles.

Regards,

Bob