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I suggest "Flavored Chapstick". This has a natural beeswax base + edible oil and will not harm the wood. The client can even change flavors at will. Bubble-gum?

For a "professional" instrument, it isn't possible to just change the bore diameter between bordering keynotes. Once you begin to change registers you will get very poor results. Changing bore diameter changes the spacing of the Anti-nodes and therfore the tonehole placement and size. Incr...

Does it "flip" up to the next octave D? Is it a flat or a sharp D? More input! Need More Input!!!

I did not include Wall Thickness because it is detremental to correct pitch in the upper registers. As the internal pressure increases, the air column pushes up into deep toneholes and flattens the notes and the scale. Anyone who owns a cylindrical whistle with deep toneholes will know that they mus...

There are only 2 ways to alleviate the strain on short or skinny fingers. 1) Choose a conical bore. This reduces the tonehole size, shortens the bore and brings the toneholes closer together, but the tone/timber is similar to a Recorder and many object to this. 2) Choose a wider bore diameter. This ...

Here is a gif of a similar instrument without the brass band at the slide.

http://www.historicalwoodwinds.be/image ... _tap_2.gif

Don't forget the "Sponge" inserted into the upper "wind chamber" used to collect water vapor and reduce the saliva blocking the windway/duct. A substitute can be made from open-cell "speaker foam". This will allow good wind transfer without blocking the windway/duct. no...

I can vouch for "Erik the Flutemaker". I love my Walking Cane Flute.

http://www.eriktheflutemaker.com/Walking_Flute.htm

He's out of stock right now, but you could try to order one made. (These are "summer seasonal" instruments)

Dear Dr. Phill I have an emotional need for your calculator program! It has helped my peace of mind and emotional growth, please place me on your mailing list for any program updates. If it were not for you, the emotional stress of whistlemaking WhOA by hand calculation would cause me brain damage! ...

The response time for a rounded lip labium is faster, ergo, it requires less breath velocity to begin oscillations. The rounded lip creates the V.K. Vortex Street with less,not more breath pressure. I submit the "Flauto Dolce" (quiet flute) organ pipe as my proof. This voicing requires low...

If you can't find the proper diameter, you can spin down Silver/German Silver tubing to the proper ID on a Lathe Mandrel. The technique is simple for anyone familiar with lathe work.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal_spinning

Yes Highwood, BUT...there is a "false bore extension" to the aircolumn at the voicing which must be compensated for. This aircolum extention at the voicing is critical to Keynote pitch and sets the location of anti-nodes for tonehole placement. Flatness of pitch multiplies with successive ...

To compensate for the Trapezoidal shape of the voicing window you must "average" the diameter before you "plug them in" to Flutomat (or other) calculators. (La + Wa/2) + (Lb + Wb/2) /2 = Davg "The average diameter at the bottom of the square window plus the average diameter ...

To answer your original questions..."Can anyone help? how do (voicing) dimensions effect tone." The voicing, including the parts...the windway, the emboucure hole(window),the labium ramp and the "ears"(sides) are the "sound generation device" of the duct flute. Every as...

A small version of a "wrench wrap" coiled and stuffed in a PVC tube with end caps coud protect your whistles at "ground zero!"

http://www.frontiernet.net/~werikson/images/wrench.jpg