Jerry Freeman Tweaked Key of D Mellow Dog Tin Penny Whistle Irish Pennywhistle: Affordable true professional quality. Perfect for beginner & advanced alike. Scroll all the way down & listen to videos.

Here's what I do to create the legendary tweaked Mellow Dog: I remove the whistlehead from a mass produced whistle. I make a new wide body, key of D tonebody. I stabilize the whistle’s response and clean up the sound by filling the cavity under the whistlehead windway using a special, acoustically transparent lattice I've developed for the purpose. I laminate a thickness of plastic under the soundblade to adjust it to the correct position. I place the lamination differently in different whistles to achieve the different voicings that distinguish each model of Freeman whistle. Where the windway floor connects with the voicing chamber, I correct the manufactured square edge by working a radius onto the end of the windway floor. Different keys and models of whistles require different radii. I press a brass ring around the whistlehead socket to protect it from cracking from the pressure of the tube inside. That has always been the demise of mass produced whistles. Occasionally you see a performer playing an old whistle with electrician's tape wrapped around a cracked socket. It bears mention, some of these adjustments are interrelated. If I change one of them, another adjustment will need to be modified to make it work correctly. If you were to only do one or two of the tweaks, even if you could duplicate them exactly, you would not get the same result.

• An affordable, professional quality, wide body key of D whistle. The most popular Freeman whistle.
• Rich full sound, beautifully in tune and well balanced across the octaves. Scroll (way) down to the reviews section for a video demonstrating the Freeman Tweaked Mellow Dog.
• Pure-drop authentic traditional whistle that sounds and plays like a much more expensive instrument, better than the inexpensive mass produced whistles but still affordable. Many experienced players say the Mellow Dog is their favorite whistle, even compared to whistles costing much more.
• Personally tweaked and voiced by Jerry Freeman (see description below for an explanation of all that’s been done in the tweaking process to make this whistle great).
• Great for beginners all the way to the most experienced professional players.
• The Mellow Dog is especially good to learn on because it produces beautiful, clean notes easily, sparing the player the frustration of trying to work with a whistle that may be hard to play or doesn’t produce clean sounding notes.
• Satisfaction guaranteed.