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Mack, why is your site going down?

I have made Square Whistle (I'm the maker of the one called the Town Square (yes, the name is a pun). It plays just as well was any round whistles. After having some C&F people here try it out we did find that most had trouble finding the toneholes when not looking. Somehow, round bodies makes i...

I personally make them where the blade edge aligns with the floor. There's thousands of ways to make whistles. A Tin Whistle is truly an example of "Infinite diversity through infinite combinations". I like the comment on "ceiling" instead of roof - that's worth changing the draw...

I don't think there's a whistle shortage, it's more like a whistle money shortage.
That is, more money to buy whistles.
Whistle subsidies?

Here's a direct link to the Star Trek video on the Ressikan Flute:
http://www.startrek.com/watch_video/mak ... -flute-the

Happy New Year all, Dale, I think I figured out what the end of Mayan calendar is about. It's about new beginnings. On December 21, 2012 and giant vortex will form over Washington and remove every politician and lawyer there from our presence (regardless of party) and we start all over with a clean ...

I've not tried this 14.4 rule but I have make lower than usual whistle. My Basswhistle, 146.832Hz Octave below Low-D is 1.63" diameter with 0.14" Wall thickness. It has a 1" wide windway.
The whole first register plays quite well with these dimensions.

I've seen some people playing whistles with a straight 90 Deg down angle and with that you run into the possibility that the fleshy part of your lips could cut off the air.

The elbows up, reminds me of band camp (over 30 years ago).

Yeah see, that's just it... too much urban myth floating around about what makes a whistle work, too much repetition from people who only think they know. Yes, a good high F will have a larger bore diameter and a thinner wall than a high D with the same tonal characteristics. Can you show a pic of ...

There are certain tone characteristics derived by the bore, the voicing parameters, tonehole diameter. I think Hans is just simply doing research to focus on one element. Bore does play a role in these characteristic. In addition to making Tin Whistles, I also make Native American Flutes - the bore ...

And, as most any organ voicer will tell you, a narrower mouth is easier to bring into speech and control than a wide one. I think the widest mouth whistle I owned was a Grinter, and the other end of the spectrum would be Pat O'Riordan. I made a tri opening mouth once for a Low-D - loud like a train...

Someone recently ordered a Chromatic Whistle in Low C with a B foot key so I had to develop a new spreadsheet for the toneholes. This is for making a chromatic whistle/flute with 12 holes. That is 7 normally opened holes and 5 normally closed holes. You can change the tonehole sizes, frequencies, et...

About 10 years ago I had published on my website a wavelength/bore ratio calculator because of the variables that influence the physical length (like mouthpiece design - window geometry (like depth, length, width/interference, bore reduction at the exit, etc). Nevertheless, it makes too much complic...

Toolbars are garbage, they turn decent computer in molasses. They're usually loaded with spy code. They can be a risk to your personal security.

If someone wants to standardize the terms "Wide Bore" and "Narrow Bore", it should be relative to the length/bore ratio of the whistle.

Example: (These are extremes)
20:1 would be wide bore
30:1 would be narrow bore