＜p class="editor-paragraph"＞＜br＞＜/p＞＜p class="editor-paragraph" dir="ltr"＞＜span＞I spent some years designing this instrument and I have came up with a whistle that has a tapered bore (in the style of Clarke, Victorian flagolets and late medieval recorders/piffero, etc.)＜/span＞＜/p＞＜p class="editor-paragraph" dir="ltr"＞＜span＞​The result is a D whistle with a nice bit more volume and body than my other brass bodied whistles. Although it is a little louder, the tone from the wooden body results in a nice mellow tone.​＜/span＞＜/p＞＜p class="editor-paragraph" dir="ltr"＞＜span＞The internal taper means that there is a better balance of volume between the 2 octaves so the high notes aren't piercing and the 2nd octave doesn't take a huge amount of extra air. The scalloping around the note holes are actually there for fine tuning between the octaves and this feature does add some comfort to the fingers while playing too.＜/span＞＜br＞＜span＞A sample video from Scott Schade where he compares my polymer and wooden versions.＜/span＞＜br＞＜br＞＜span＞SHIPPING.＜/span＞＜br＞＜span＞My workshop is in Ireland and I only use UPS to send instruments to the USA because the post offices in both countries have become unreliable.＜/span＞＜br＞＜/p＞＜div class="video-embed youtube-embed"＞＜iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/HHU8QbDUxXw?rel=0" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; fullscreen" allowfullscreen="true" title="YouTube video" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin"＞＜/iframe＞＜/div＞＜p class="editor-paragraph"＞＜br＞＜span＞ ＜/span＞＜/p＞