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Weights of High and Low Whistles and Woodwind Instruments for Comparison

Particularly among players at the early stages of learning to play low whistles, the weight of an instrument can be a talking point.   It should be said whistles are generally the lightest woodwind instruments, with a typical low D weighing around 180-250 grams.    For interests sake here is a table comparing the weight of […]

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Limited Edition Blue Pro Ds

We have a small batch of limited edition Blue Ds available here.  This is the second batch of blue Ds we have ever made – so they are pretty rare!!!

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New Pro A

While it had always been my intention that the Low G would be the next key to follow the Low D and the F, it is in fact the A that has come to fruition first.   The G remains very close, but it still needs that little extra something to give take that final 1% to […]

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Update on New Keys

I’ve been answering a lot of emails recently about when keys of whistles other than the D and F are going to come to fruition.  I thought I’d provide a general update here.  Though I had envisaged the G would be the next key, and we have taken a substantial number of advance orders for […]

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Polished Finish MK Pros Discontinued

Polished finish MK Pros will be discontinued for the foreseeable future.  This is so that we can concentrate on finishing work on different keys of whistles – G, A & Eb are all in the pipeline (quite literally!).   We do currently have a very small number of polished finish Mk Pro D and Fs […]

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Limited Edition Blue/Purple

We do have a small number of limited edition blue or purple low Ds and Low Fs.  If you would like one please do get in touch with us.  They are priced as follows: Low D (polished finish) –  £302 Low F (polished finish) – £287 Photo by Somhairle MacDonald 

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Back to chromatic

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New roll bag on it’s way!

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The Perfect Whistle

Having spent a large part of the last few years trying to keep up with orders a large component of what I’ve been doing is to work out nice ways to make things – to both maintain quality and not be too time consuming.  It has been a real challenge – far harder than working […]

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Deutsche!

We are just putting the finishing touches to a German translation of the MK Website.  Translation was done by Alina Soboth ( alinka [at] gmx.de ).  Click here to see the site in German.