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I've voted, and my top choice is the all black. However, a close second would be the all black with the ivoroid/white trimmings. Aesthetically, the white trim on black appeals to me. The designs combining the black plastic with brown wood-like material just look weird to me. I know your company is w...

For D whistles, try the Oak, Generation, and Clarke original (the latter is not for when you play in a band and have to be miked up, though) I agree that Sweetones, like Peter said, are terrible. There's just something wrong with how they sound, and the C whistle's tuning is off. Even Megs are bette...

I had a Sweetone C, and I felt there was just something wrong with its tuning. But mine was bought quite a few years ago, and they may have changed it since then. I say this because I subsequently bought a Meg C (Clarke's cheaper version of the Sweetone), and the Meg was in tune. When I compared the...

I was waiting to see if you would jump on that. Always happy to please and state the obvious. Seriously though, the player has his part to play where intonation is concerned and equal tempered and to equal tempered instruments are not that far apart the gap can't be bridged while playing: at this p...

For me, it just means the whistle: 1. has accurate tuning, because I play mainly non-ITM stuff on my whistles in a church band setting, and my KB player cringes when I play whistles that are even just slightly out of tune with the KB for one note - including my favourite bluetop Gen C which is wond...

For me, it just means the whistle: 1. has accurate tuning, because I play mainly non-ITM stuff on my whistles in a church band setting, and my KB player cringes when I play whistles that are even just slightly out of tune with the KB for one note - including my favourite bluetop Gen C which is wonde...

... I'm also wondering why 12 gets a special, distinct position. Yep, I'm also wondering that. Is there some mathematical correlation? Maybe some theory or principle that makes 12 different? After all, 2 different persons had 12 as one of their diagrams' nodes. And 10. Plus they both had similar cu...

I'm flat-footed (the arch doesn't stand up to any weight) and have fused ankle bones, so I'm quite particular about getting a good shoe. I've tried a wide range of brands (Brooks, NB, Asics, Mizuno, Adidas - very rare model!) that purport to have models that are suitable for such foot problems. My v...

Soundsamples: I contacted Anders in April of last year asking about this and he said it was an interesting idea and that he would look into it. I contacted him again in January and he said he hadn't forgotten about my email but he hadn't had the time to look into whistle sounds as he had so many ot...

I have the fully plastic tunable models. The B flat has a nice woody tone, it's in tune, and the volume is good even for the lower notes. I like it a lot. Ditto the low G . However, I don't really like the low F I have (bought quite some time ago) because it has the same bore diameter as the low G. ...

I'm not a geek, but if you don't want to spend a lot for a powerful system (meaning the hardware may be underpowered for Vista), and you're not dependent on software applications that need Windows to run, then you might want to install an easy to use Linux OS on your system, to co-exist side by side...

Nail on the head. What I find most surprising about this is that much of Pat Metheny's music is cut from the same milquetoast cloth that Kenny G's music is. " Easy Listening Jazz" Where is the harm in using the sounds and works from dead musicians in new contemporary publications. I think...

I have no idea whether these teaching blocks are for real, or some manipulated pics, or someone pasted pictures with deliberate mistakes onto the sides of some cubes as an elaborate joke. I can't believe anyone would have used the word "dick" for the picture of the egg ( the Chinese words ...

super-corrosive sweaty (read "drippy") hands.

Don't a lot of musicians do this? Use computer-tech to layer on-the-spot recorded little loops of music on top of one another. Guitarists, especially. The only difference is that she's a cellist. But I've watched Didier Lockwood live doing the same on his violin long ago (more jazzy/classical, less ...