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Michael Cramer's Reel played on a Thornton D whistle.

The Holly Spoon reel played on a Thornton E flat whistle

C, D or an Eb are $90 with $5 postage & packaging (P&P) within the US and $10 for international.

Here's a sound clip of my new B flat whistles.
Forgive the playing, I was in a rush to get a clip online.
BTW, there's free shipping on Bb whistles till the end of the year!

Thornton Whistles. I make high whistles in B flat,C, D, and E flat. Always email me before you make a purchase to make sure the whistle you want to purchase is in stock! The high whistles are made with a brass body and the mouth piece is made from a PVC tube, a Delrin plug with brass fittings. The whistle is also tunable from its head piece. They cost $90.
B flat whistles now available!! This whistle is made from a brass body with a black ABS plastic head. It's tunable and costs $120. And there is no shipping costs if you purchase a B flat Thornton Whistle till Jan 1st 2012! The construction of this whistle takes some features from my high and low whistles. The body is a heavier brass tube, actually it's almost twice the weight of a tube from a Generation or similar kind of whistle. That's not going to make a great difference tonally but it's stronger anyway!
The mouth piece is the same style of mouth piece that I would use for my low whistles but scaled down. Mind you the mouth piece is still fairly powerful and provides a fairly strong colum of sound for the body of the whistle. This results in a whistle that has a very strong tone and lots of volume. As a result it's takes a good strong flow of air to get the full potential from this whistle.
The tuning slide is a snug fitting brass on brass fit. It takes very little upkeep, only a wipe of cork grease now and again. Chap stick would work in a pinch too but I may be in a position to supply cork grease soon. Like all other whistles, email me if you're interested and I can let you know how stocks.
New mouth piece design for my D, C and E flat whistles!! Over the last year or so I have been trying to come up with a way of increasing the overall volume of my whistles, just a little bit, without affecting the tone. What I did was I changed the shape and size of the internal windway and the top of the mouth piece. This had the effect of increasing the volume of the whistle a little bit and it also greatly reduced to chances of clogging. Eureka!!! The pictures give you an idea of how the mouth pieces are different but I haven't put up sound slips yet because it'll just sound like your speakers are louder!

Combo set! This is a D whistle with an extra E flat body. Price is $125. Email me if you would like one or have any question at all. info@pipertommymartin.com

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