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- Sun May 12, 2024 2:25 pm
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Whistle Forum
- Topic: Advice on using a whistle with a solid lead block on fipple
- Replies: 14
- Views: 459
Re: Advice on using a whistle with a solid lead block on fipple
Any alteration of this whistle could devalue it as a collectors item? Maybe, but clear food-safe epoxy would allow you to see the lead while making it safe to handle and play. Inside the windway, the epoxy needn't be thick at the exit end where it's likely narrowest - I'd apply it and then tilt it ...
- Sat May 11, 2024 3:49 pm
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Whistle Forum
- Topic: Advice on using a whistle with a solid lead block on fipple
- Replies: 14
- Views: 459
Re: Advice on using a whistle with a solid lead block on fipple
A very thin coating of epoxy on the inside of the windway, primarily floor and walls - keep it off the ceiling - should only quieten it a little but will seal in the lead.
- Thu May 09, 2024 10:58 am
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Whistle Forum
- Topic: Advice on using a whistle with a solid lead block on fipple
- Replies: 14
- Views: 459
Re: Advice on using a whistle with a solid lead block on fipple
Looks like a job for food-safe epoxy, and you'll still be able to see the lead through it. Craft Resin is the type to go for, and you can use it for a host of household repairs. I make entire flutes out of the stuff, and some people repair their dentures with it too.
- Wed Apr 10, 2024 12:30 pm
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Whistle Forum
- Topic: Drilling Furniture grade PVC
- Replies: 3
- Views: 622
Re: Drilling Furniture grade PVC
I use these burrs for drilling holes on both wooden and epoxy flutes (which are probably similar to PVC in the way they drill) with a Dremel: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Hakkin-Woodworking-Engraving-Polishing-Compatible/dp/B09Q8LKZ1C/ref=pd_ci_mcx_mh_sb_sims_3?pd_rd_w=fmnQX&content-id=amzn1.sym.d7d...
- Mon Apr 08, 2024 9:54 am
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Whistle Forum
- Topic: Volume Control Ring - Why Doesn't it Exist??
- Replies: 6
- Views: 621
Re: Volume Control Ring - Why Doesn't it Exist??
I assume you mean slightly covering the near end of the window as that has the effect you describe. You could achieve that by having the windway move (or perhaps just the top of it), but you could also couple that mechanically to the wedge to move it a lesser amount in the same direction as well in ...
- Sat Apr 06, 2024 12:28 pm
- Forum: World/Folk Winds
- Topic: Superb podcast about the dizi
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1551
Re: Dizi: a superb podcast
That might be useful then to help bring a flat flute up to pitch by adding a dimo, and it would still play flat when you want it to. I can't hear any tuning difference in this demo though, so it may be a very subtle effect: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DP_FpIj ... usicPteLtd
- Fri Apr 05, 2024 10:13 am
- Forum: World/Folk Winds
- Topic: Superb podcast about the dizi
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1551
Re: Dizi - a superb podcast
It works spot on with chromatic open hole Boehm flutes and wooden flutes - Wikipedia is inaccurate and needs updating. Antoine designed his headjoint specifically for chromatic flutes btw. Thanks for that information and the link. I'd certainly like to give it a go, and I've got a couple of bad pro...
- Sat Mar 30, 2024 12:42 pm
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Whistle Forum
- Topic: Double hole whistles?
- Replies: 181
- Views: 16905
Re: Double hole whistles?
The photo's there, so that works. I'd love to hear more detail about how it covers the 12 chromatic notes, and about the cool slides. It sounds interesting, and especially the elliptic aspects. I'll try to record a video. It's better to hear. In short... Do you have an Irish flute? How are things g...
- Fri Mar 29, 2024 6:59 pm
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Whistle Forum
- Topic: Double hole whistles?
- Replies: 181
- Views: 16905
Re: Double hole whistles?
Hello! I have read yours posts... and just wanted to show my solution solved the problem. I often use eliptic holes and eliptic bore on my whistles and recorders. This is my fave whisltes. Advantages: - chromatic (forks, half-covers) - up to 10-20 cents - cool slides (1-2-3 holes at the same time!)...
- Fri Mar 29, 2024 6:55 pm
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Whistle Forum
- Topic: Clogging, Toothpaste, Etc.
- Replies: 28
- Views: 3849
Re: Clogging, Toothpaste, Etc.
The solution I'm currently using has been working for many years. I don't wash the whistles I play. For the sake of the purity of the experiment. Other manufacturers, if they wanted, could have built condensation-free into their whistles a long time ago ;-) The only manufacturer is Mollenhauer: htt...
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 4:08 pm
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Whistle Forum
- Topic: Clogging, Toothpaste, Etc.
- Replies: 28
- Views: 3849
Re: Clogging, Toothpaste, Etc.
I use the capillary effect. Water is absorbed inside the whistle head. One of my first attempt - www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsrK7nR_yZM Somehow I missed that post - I was responding to a mention of Teflon. I had wondered about having tiny holes leading away from the windway to some place where the wat...
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 11:27 am
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Whistle Forum
- Topic: Clogging, Toothpaste, Etc.
- Replies: 28
- Views: 3849
Re: Clogging, Toothpaste, Etc.
Has anyone tried carnauba wax? I've seen it used on cars where it makes the water stand in beads and run off easily, so perhaps it would make it easier for small beads to form and then blow out of the windway before they're big enough to become disruptive. If it works, it should be long lasting. If ...
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 11:14 am
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Whistle Forum
- Topic: New Double-Whistle Idea
- Replies: 24
- Views: 2567
Re: New Double-Whistle Idea
After practicing Rondo Alla Turca a bit, it is indeed very difficult. But I'm confident I'll be able to play that portion up to speed with some practice. I'm playing that portion in G# minor instead of F# minor, since I have a D whistle. I'll also add that I think this is probably peak difficulty f...
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 6:18 pm
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Whistle Forum
- Topic: New Double-Whistle Idea
- Replies: 24
- Views: 2567
Re: New Double-Whistle Idea
I don't really get how you could think it's "easy" to adapt to new systems. There's nothing remotely "easy" about relearning all 1,000+ tunes you know on a new system. Sure, it's easier than starting from scratch and learning a new instrument as a beginner, but that doesn't mean...
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 12:45 am
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Whistle Forum
- Topic: New Double-Whistle Idea
- Replies: 24
- Views: 2567
Re: New Double-Whistle Idea
Regarding the first few points I made, you acknowledge that your new proposed design would be hard for woodwind players to transition to, which is my point. No I don't. I think it's easy to adapt to different systems, while the significant difficulties are those of the systems themselves. To judge ...