To hear the performance of one of my whistles, see a video one of my customers made on a whistle I custom made for him at: https://youtu.be/HJ_eXuahP7I

My name is Chris Wall and I'm a flutemaker from Columbia, SC. I make, play, teach and sell many different old world woodwinds ranging from the Chinese Xiao to the Armenian Duduk to the Japanese Shakuhachi and almost everything in between. This listing is designed to get you on the wait list for a whistle handmade by me, while still retaining the benefits of buying through ebay. I will be updating my wait list time as it fluctuates.

Due to the volume of orders I currently have, your order will ship in about 4 business days from the time of the order.

If you have followed me for the last several months, you'll have noticed that I regularly bring down a listing and knock out my wait list and then put one back up. When I do this I like to change up each listing and offer different customization options each time. In this listing the new addition is the option for A432hz tuning. There are many many voices out there who can better explain to you the benefits of playing, and hearing, music in A432hz as opposed to A440 which is the standard. I'll let you research it on your own if you're unfamiliar with the difference, but I will say that I much prefer A432 for its soothing properties.

My whistles have a sweet voice that, according to many of my customers, is unparalleled in the market in terms of the warmth of the tone color.  This line of whistles begin their journey as a piece of industrial polyvinyl tubing, which is then heated to melting point and shaped inside and out to my strict aspect ratio standards for each key. The benefit of this is that I can make a whistle or flute in any key with consistent performance across keys, because I control the physics of what I shape it into once it is melted. After it is shaped and set, I put a wood grain finish on the outside to give the appearance of wood. These whistles are not just colored, they actually have the feel and texture of wood. Nobody I have ever sold to or played in front of has ever thought it was a type of plastic. Some even argued it was wood after I told them it wasn't. It's very convincing, and I wont tell if you wont. As pictured in the main picture for this listing, I can stagger the brown coloration from light to dark if you purchase a set and want them to be in varying shades of brown.

While coming up with my design concept, I studied whistles crafted by the best in the business. Namely, Sindt, Copeland, and O'Riordan. These makers shaped the modern whistle landscape and also set the bar impossibly high with their craftsmanship, but two of them are now retired and one is only in light production. They have left a huge gaping hole in the realm of sweetly voiced handcrafted whistles. I do not claim to be on their level by any stretch of imagination, but I do hope to one day be able to be in the same conversation. You'll find little design elements in my whistles that I noticed on theirs. They are the best for a reason, and I owe much to them with my design.
 
Another benefit of using this polymer is that it's waterproof, and wont expand or shrink nearly as much as real wood does based on changes in room temperature and humidity. So, basically you're getting the benefits of wood without the drawbacks. That is, of course, with the exception of the fipple block, which is actually hand cut from Oak Wood and then sealed to prevent expansion from moisture build up.

These really are lovely whistles, and I accept returns if you are unsatisfied. What do you have to lose?