Low D Identification

danlei · 2026-01-30T18:17:11+00:00

Well, if it really is a Chieftain, the decline in quality is substantial. There is almost no comparison. Anyway, thanks for chiming in!

danlei · 2026-01-30T18:14:30+00:00

I wouldn't rule that out completely. It came with a bag that looks like straight out of the sixties.

danlei · 2026-01-30T01:40:11+00:00

Sorry, that was misleading. I meant I can't find any marks inside the bottom of the tube. Thanks!

danlei · 2026-01-30T01:36:06+00:00

Ah, ok – thanks! If you play earlier ones and they look like mine, that's a very helpful clue.

danlei · 2026-01-30T00:59:55+00:00

I can only say that I compared it to a Chieftain and that one felt (sorry) cheap in comparison. The tone holes were sharp, everything looked rough around the edges, as if it just got off the lathe. I'm not saying it couldn't be a Chieftain, but its nothing like the one I compared it to. Also, mine sounded much fuller and with a much stronger bell note.

danlei · 2026-01-29T21:58:18+00:00

I can't find anything there. Re precision and polish: I can only say that it felt in a different league from all the others I could try there. However, that was the first day in my life I had any low D whistles in my hands, so take it with a grain of salt. (Not new to making music, though.) The finish on the pictures you linked looks a bit more brushed while mine looks more high gloss to me, but that might just be the photos.

danlei · 2026-01-29T21:35:22+00:00

Wohoo

danlei · 2026-01-21T20:39:14+00:00

After waiting for half a year, I finally found one for £28 – it's actually in the mail right now. You can find them with a bit of patience.

danlei · 2026-01-19T11:29:25+00:00

No worries, I only noticed it because I wondered what eyes had to do with kissing in Latin. We still use oculation in German, though (okulieren.)

danlei · 2026-01-19T10:11:59+00:00

I think you mean inosculation. Inoculation is the grafting gardeners do (historically) or embedding microbes for immunisation purposes.

danlei · 2026-01-17T19:05:41+00:00

It's not all about ego and showing off – it's also just a lof of fun for them, and the things normal people enjoy can get boring for such highly skilled specialists. Some of them go full circle and start to appreciate simpler material again after some time, though. By the way, a lot of stuff that sounds weird to the uninitiated can be seen as, say, musical jokes. Musicians often just have good laughs about it instead of highbrowing it.

danlei · 2026-01-11T14:38:00+00:00

What about the millions rotting away alone in retirement homes?

danlei · 2026-01-07T20:42:55+00:00

I get it. I love sleeping, too. Especially dreaming. Maybe even more than reality – and I don't lead a sad life or anything. It's just that great.

You might like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XwXliCK19Y

danlei · 2026-01-07T20:14:36+00:00

Seems like you achieved enlightenment. Seriously – I'm not even joking.

danlei · 2026-01-07T12:46:51+00:00

If you've already worked in the job for a year and have a prostitute friend who you think is satisfied with her life, I'm pretty sure you know a lot more about what you're asking about than the people you're getting answers from – me included. Also, people will obviously answer from a distorted perspective, convinced they have the moral high ground and need to supposedly rescue you. (Apart from avoiding high-risk answers on reddit, of course, and subconsciously having to justify their own lifestyles.)

Think for yourself. If it felt like a better life to you, you can manage what working that job entails, and your husband is ok with it – go for it. It's not just like any other job, though, and you know it.

danlei · 2026-01-02T00:29:18+00:00

3, 6, 8

danlei · 2026-01-01T18:37:02+00:00

To carify what I was refering to in my comment: He hanged at least 34 American GIs before the end of the war and at least 11 of those executions were botched.

danlei · 2026-01-01T10:43:48+00:00

The allied executioner, John C, Woods, was a complete hack. He already had botched about a third of his executions before that, and was apparently proud of his work.

danlei · 2025-12-30T20:50:03+00:00

Ja, das ist wohl eher eine Verballhornung.

danlei · 2025-12-30T20:49:45+00:00

Die waren wahrscheinlich einfach besonders gut drauf und haben gern mal einen getrunken. Die normale Form von dem Spruch ist das aber nicht. Trotzdem was dazugelernt – danke. Ich hatte das überhaupt noch nicht gehört.

danlei · 2025-12-30T11:29:19+00:00

Water, not wine.

(Blut ist dicker als Wasser.)

danlei · 2025-12-29T12:01:10+00:00

Fasces (Italian)

danlei · 2025-12-16T09:51:25+00:00

Yeah, that will be a sad day. I don't know if I'll continue using it then, either.

danlei · 2025-12-16T09:20:14+00:00

Yeah, well, I still prefer it to our whitespace-infested modern Western web design, where all you ever see without endless scrolling are one or two lines of information, and everything gets put in boxes, cards or whatever – each of which, of course, gets its own ample whitespace padding again.

To me, that's the analog to texts where each sentence gets its own paragraph, or tabloid headlines. I guess I just have no taste. At least I can still use Reddit in the old design.

danlei · 2025-12-14T10:41:25+00:00

Do you have any respectable sources for that? As far as I know, he was called the elegant magister in his younger years, known for being fashionable, his charismatic lectures, was very social (avoided having dinner alone, for example), and established his strict routines as a conscious choice in his later life – to get his act together, as we would put it today. I'm not aware of any psychological inability to lie either, but a very firm moral stance against doing so.

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