Click to listen: Mellow Dog D soundclip: "The Humours of Tuaimgreine" hornpipe
Click to listen: Mellow Dog C soundclip: "The Humours of Tuaimgreine" hornpipe

This auction is for a Mellow Dog D/C set (one whistlehead with two, interchangeable tubes).

The Mellow Dog is available in the key of D, and for a very small added cost, as the highly popular Mellow Dog D/C set with two interchangeable tubes so you can play it either as a key of D or a key of C whistle.*

The Freeman Mellow Dog has achieved a devoted worldwide following. Many players consider this whistle, together with the Freeman Blackbird, to be among the best in the world, on par with instruments costing several times the modest price.

The Mellow Dog is a wide body whistle with a velvety  timbre, towards the sweet/pure end of the spectrum, but a little warmer, slightly more complex and also somewhat louder than the Blackbird.

Established players often choose the Mellow Dog when they’re looking for a superb whistle that accommodates a stronger breath or when they’re picking a whistle for session play. Beginning players almost universally choose the Mellow Dog because of its hauntingly beautiful sound coupled with a remarkable ease of handling.

Although the Mellow Dog is a tweaked whistle, it is completely different from the mass produced whistle that was transformed to make it. The Mellow Dog whistlehead began on a key of C standard body tube and then was extensively reconfigured to create a new instrument in the key of D. The Mellow Dog tonebody is made from scratch in my workshop.

*There’s really no such thing as a key of C Mellow Dog. With a D tube, the Mellow Dog is a wide body whistle. With the C tube that comes with a Mellow Dog D/C set, it’s a standard body whistle, identical to a key of C Blackbird.