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     translation: Delia Robinson (only for some pages but you will know it immediatly reading my translations)

Acknowledgements:

This web site was only possible due to the warm welcome found in the French museums especially:

• the Museum of Berry in Bourges
  
• the Museum of Normandy in Caen
  
• the Archaeological museum of Ile de France in Nemours
  
• the Museum of Beaux-Arts in Lille
  
• the Alsatian Museum in Strasburg

Thanks to

• the Museo Nationale delle Arti e Tradizioni Popolari in Rome (Italy)
• the Centro de Documentación Musical de Andalucía (Spain)
• the Kalundborg og Omegns Museum (Denmark)
• the Hessisches Puppenmuseum in Hanau-Wilhelmsbad (Germany)

for the wonderful documentation on the subject they provided me.

Thanks to the researchers who helped me:

• Tinaïg CLODORE for her invaluable information on the prehistoric whistles,
• Alain COSTES of the GRECAM for his information on Midi-Pyrénées ceramics

Several collectors opened to me their doors and their friendship:

• Delia Robinson, an irreplaceable American friend, artist, whistle maker and enthusiast.
• Eleonore and Albert, from Germany, who shared their huge knowledge on the suject;
• Rolf G. Mari, great German collector and searcher who opened his unbelievable documentation about the whistles to help me,
• M. Marcel Poulet, specialist in ceramics in Puisaye
• and other French collectors whose modesty prevent to name.

Many thanks to Lionel who cheered me on to create this site and guided me in my research;
to Sylvie, Gabrielle and Elodie who shared their aesthetic touch with this site.

Many potters shared their love for ceramics especially:

• Mr. Gaget in La Borne
• Mr. Sourdive in Cliousclat
• Mr. Friedmann in Soufflenheim
• Mr. Robin in Poët Laval

Thanks to antique dealers, admirers of these objects and their history, who have searched for and researched the old whistles of the French regions.