I have tried nearly every major brand of tin whistle, and Colin makes the absolute best high D…read morewhistles in the world. There simply isn't anything else that compares in terms of playability, volume consistency, and tuning.

Musical Instruments & Teachers (musicalinstrumentsandteachers)…read moreColin Goldie has been making Irish whistles (penny whistles - tin whistles and low whistles - think the intro to Riverdance - to the uninitiated) specifically Overton Whistles until after Overton's death. He now markets his whistles under the name of Goldie and to state a simple truth, his instruments are even better to play than the Overtons, of which I own several. These instruments will be made to your specifications, and before he bills and ships, he will call you and play a selection of whistles for you - so you will have a very good idea of exactly what you are getting. For several years. my mainstays in the soprano/mezzo-soprano whistles has been the Harper Classics as the Overtons were hard to come by and had a long waiting list for availability. However I do have one of the older, early Overtons, non-tunable in "D" soprano, that outplays the Harpers. The new Goldies are a definite a cut above even the Overtons. His whistles are extremely well voiced and balanced over the entire two octave range, and I can usually get at least two notes above the second octave by over-blowing the whistle a bit. The Goldie whistles make playing and ornamentation of a piece a lot easier than any other whistles I have ever owned. Simply stated, now I can just relax and play a piece and not have to think about "tweaking" my playing to make things come out right. Specifically, this amounts to having to unlearn a lot of bad habits I developed playing lesser whistles. Now I can just relax and play a piece and not have to fight to make it sound right. I can not overstress how impressed I am with the quality of the whistles Colin produces. His whistles are among the best in the world. Now that's the stuff!