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Maybe you have an air leak. I built a 3D printer from scratch a few years ago and have been perfecting my 3D Low Whistle design using OpenScad. Put a light on the opposite and see how much light gets through and possibly see if there are any tiny openings. Of course, I'm only making the headjoint, n...

Next it will be whistle racks in the back of a pickup truck

It's designed as four whistles because an average person can reach over four, but not five or more.

TWCalc - Tin Whistle Hole Calculator has been revised to fix a glitch in the L/B Ratio calculation. Other minor improvements as well.

Version 3.31 can be downloaded here: http://kingsmills.us/twcalc/twcalc.htm

Something I recently made over the holidays. The Multiwhistle is the work of 3D printing. It is made as one piece not four fipples glued. Four ABS co-joined high whistle fipples side-by-side each with a CPVC tonebody in the keys of C, D, Eb and E. http://kingsmills.us/MULTIWHISTLE.png Good when you ...

I usually file blades on handmade whistles. I usually use a file and pinch my fingers between the limits of where it should be made. However, there was an experiment I did once that could work. 1. You mount the headjoint of the whistle in a lathe (metal working lathe, not wood type) 2. Attach a flex...

After a break for the summer, I'm getting things back in gear with new and renewed items. I'm setting up a new site based on Zencart and first new item to go on there is the 3LD Series whistles. This is the fourth major design revision of the $25 Low-D practice whistle. I've reached a point where th...

Try to duplicate the bore inner diameter as closely as possible, if the mouthpiece has a very different diameter than the bore then the lower and upper octaves will not tune the same way. One of them will be in tune while the other flat or sharp - depending on the bore. The alignment of the octaves ...

I wish I could hear it some more. He just plays up the scale in the bottom octave, and I wonder what the 2nd octave sounds like. The 2nd octave wasn't really that great on them. I also made one keyed as a NAF (Native American Flute) pentatonic scale with a wide bore and on that one intentionally ma...

Back in 2-Feb-2002 I had a post here on C&F using the word tonebody. My earliest website reference on archive.org references it on 2-May-1999. http://web.archive.org/web/19990502130918/http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/kadima/jubilee.htm The word refers to the bottom half of a two-piece w...

If you make the length/bore ratio ridiculously low: 1. Wide enough and you loose the second octave 2. Even wider, it's no longer a Pennywhistle. It then falls under the category of helmholtz resonators (aka occarinas) - the tonehole positioning rulebook for Pennywhistles then gets thrown out the win...

I have a completed functional 3D Generated Low Whistle head. It's been named as part of the 3LD series (convenient name?, it's a play on Low-D and 3D together for anyone who didn't get it). Unlike my other whistles, the beak in the back is curved - it has a nice feel to it. The whistle kit will be a...

Well, I have kind of taken a slow down at whistle making. I'm planning on redoing my website and along with the videos.

The printer is completed and working. I've printed some printer parts and dice. This afternoon it's printing a TARDIS - obviously not full size and not functional either.

Getting closer to getting the printer running: https://scontent-ord1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xtp1/v/t1.0-9/11846721_10153523018547929_3444112480053683445_n.jpg?oh=6d326886767cd2de75726889bea0ff7e&oe=563B2043 Provided that the photo shows up properly: This is a made from scratch 3D printer that us...