Generations have long been considered the standard whistle for Irish traditional music. However, they are inexpensively mass produced, and there are issues both with variability from one to the next, and with details that are compromised due to injection molding's limitations. Further, in the early 1980's, Generation replaced their old injection molding tooling, and the voicing changed somewhat. The vintage, pre-1980's voicing is considered superior, and existing examples of good pre-1980's Generations are sought after and prized. It's been the habit of devoted players to routinely try every Generation whistle in every music store they visit hoping to find that once-in-decades "perfect" Generation. Similarly, there has been a long tradition of tweaking to correct the shortcomings and optimize the voicing and handling. Freeman tweaked Generations are expertly adjusted to produce a remarkably clean playing, beautiful sounding, well in tune instrument that's well balanced throughout both registers. They are voiced to match the sought after pre-1980's voicing, which is a little sweeter/purer than current Generations, but with more complexity/reediness than a Freeman Mellow Dog or Blackbird. Freeman tweaked Generations are fully tunable, with the whistlehead moveable on the tonebody to raise or lower the pitch as needed. Tweaked Generations are available in brass or nickel plate in the keys of high G, high F, Eb, D, C, and Bb. The various keys are available individually or in complete tweaked Generation sets of whistles in all six keys.
I**N
Nice Little Whistle
These are professional level whisles, I use generations, sometimes tweaked by myself for shows, redording, the Bb generations in particular are quite nicely balanced, they are into low whistle territory about halfway and it's a nice clear deepness still with a little bit of chiff and also still small enough to play like a whistle, nice volume and tone without sounding too clear or fake like a howard for example which has no chiff, is too "perfect". If I could go into a music store and try out 3 or 4 Generation Bb's I would expect to find 1 as good as these tweaked ones, nothing magically better than regular, he just makes them *all* like a hand picked generation. I would most definetely recomend these to beginners, especially when people get to that point where they're looking into the high end whistles, go for one of these and it will play as good or better than some of the 2-300 dollar whistles. My favorite generations have been B flats.
R**T
A Fine B flat whistle
Gotta love these tweaked Freeman's. They get you a "good whistle" without having to go through a shop load to find it.worth the little extra cost to eliminate the frustration of an almost whistle. I fully recommend any of the Freemanized whistles.Great tone in every note, in both octaves.
S**T
Five Stars
Super. It sure beats the rest.
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