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         Hi fellow musicians! Thanks for over 13 years and almost 4,000 whistles! 
The last day to order was March 7th, 2023.
I will be spending retirement time with my beautiful wife of 47+ years. 
It has been a pleasure my friends!  The shop is.......closed.......
     
           Thanks!      [email protected]
 Check out these new reviews of my whistles below!  Thx James                     feel free to email me at [email protected]
Here Billy Xiong is playing a Becker whistle on the video.   Thanks Billy!   Very nice!
  
                    Irish-style penny whistles have been standard instruments since the middle 1800s when the use of tin sheet metal developed and whistles were made.  They are the common man's answer to the recorder.  The whistle only has 6 sound holes, but plays 2 octaves.  My whistles are made of cpvc or pvc pipe.  The fipple blocks are acetal rod (plastic polymer).  I use curved, narrowing windways to take advantage of the Bernoulli effect---causing an easy blow of air to accelerate as it is compressed in the narrowing windway.  Thousands of Becker whistles are being played around the globe!   A HANDMADE whistle for such a price!

Whistles are a folk instrument---an instrument of the people, the common man. They are not orchestral perfection....they will change pitch with the change of blowing strength---up to 30 cents.  I have tuned them with care and they will sound fine with other instruments. I play my own whistles all the time with the folk jam and church band and they work great.

 All whistles have a delrin fipple block!

Here are a few letters from customers------
The low D whistle you made me arrived today. Given how remotely my wife and I live, I expected it to take a few days longer to find me. Most mail does. That said, it's unbelievable that a low whistle costing only $25 could sound this good. Honestly, I've owned low D whistles that cost 10 times as much that didn't sound as good. You have the sound figured out! Also, likely because of the bore diameter to length ratio, the back pressure is perfect too. I've been playing it since the mail arrived almost 3 hours ago. Needless to say, given it's virtually maintenance free, I'll take it with me anytime I go out of town. When we hike, it'll be in my pack. So, thanks for such a great instrument at an unbelievably low cost. Thanks too for the very quick turn around!--------J   J   2021
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Too bad I didn’t know about your whistles first…you would have saved me a ton of money!  I recommend these whistles because they sound so good and they’re cheap!  I will buy more!  Keep up the good work!  John                   1/1/18
      "Hi James,Just wanted to let you know that I received my Low D whistle yesterday.  
What a great sounding and great looking instrument--this whistle would literally be a bargain at twice the price.  Thanks so much for making such high quality, affordable musical instruments.
All the best, J"     March 12, 2015
..............your whistle arrived today and it was ice cold(from the mailbox) but I put it under my coat and warmed it up and it sounds great--- it changes scales easily without any whistles are or squeaks and it is a nice clean tone to it.  I have two other whistles that are ABS plastic that I used to consider my best whistles and now I think yours has beat them out as my new favorite number one.
​     I want to thank you very much for the quick transaction at a very reasonable price.    TS    January 2019

         
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Features of Becker Whistles:
                 >Carefully tuned a few cents sharp in the lower octave to minimize high note flattening.
                 >Tough pvc or cpvc material!-----and now---all delrin fipple blocks!
                 >Curved windway discourages moisture build up!
                 > Each finger hole is undercut by hand for best tone---like fine recorders!
                 >Narrowing windways accelerate your breath for ease of playing!
                 > High, alto and low whistles available---in many keys!   anybody need a C# or B natural? Email me.
                 > Each whistle is carefully voiced to be balanced between the low and higher octave!
                 > Handmade quality, made in the USA!
                 > Very inexpensive for a handmade instrument!
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About me----
James Becker B.M.E., M.A. taught public school music for 30 years.  He has been worship leader/music minister in churches for the last 50 years.  Whistles are played with the church worship team and at the local FolkJam--the SchoolHouse Jammers-----
​     He plays guitar, piano, violin, hammered dulcimer, harp, mandolin- and recently the cello-----and a few more!
Taught piano and guitar lessons to many dozens of private students.    He has built harps, hundreds of plucked psalterys, several hammered dulcimers, a mandolin, a few marimbas----dozens of fifes and thousands of whistles. He just finished a box resonated padauk bar xylo/marimba for use with the church marimba ensemble..  He and his wife Debbie have 2 great children who play drums, bass, guitar and sing also. Both taking delight in following the King of Kings!  


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​Here is a slow motion video of how a whistle mouthpiece makes oscillations and sounds.    


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Here I am at a folk jam performance with one of my harps and hammered dulcimers.
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Here is my latest harp under construction.  Fun project!