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Years ago I made a fipple headjoint for Rory and he is still using it - please check out this incredible musician:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7sc0kbHBK0

Have fun and all best for yoa all,
Martin Niethammer

My dear "chiff and fipple" friends, I would like to inform you that I`m back to give you some new updates and tipps about my whistle and flute studies. In my following YT - vids you can learn about my investigations of acustics. And maybe you can make your own fipple heads. There are some ...

wow - Axel did it again

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLekTcxCD8s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_v8b84fUZVY Some of you might know me and my experimental studies of hybrid-instruments and mouthpieces. From time to time I try to make new designs of the labialheads for the concertflute. I found out, that a modified alto recorderhead gives a good foundation to work...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOFsKp7LpMA

greetings from Berlin,
Martin

Please listen to a short samba-piece... i played a complex 5 part-harmony on this one. It shows the possibilities of the chromatic whistle:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B69LfkZrHtw

Greetings from Berlin,
Martin

I just startet to make a simple sax, but it has the whistle - fingering. It starts with the lowest tone C and goes over more than 2 octaves - more /less chromatic. The tube is from laminated veneer. I play the sax with a normal sopranosax mpc. please have a look: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Cok...

in a quena, shakuhachi, ney, kaval etc.... the mouth space is part of the flute-volume. So the acoustic corrections are a little different to a labial-flute ( whistle ) or a sideblown flute. Where to make the spaces or where to put in a knot or a wedge - that is always different.. Only a few cylindr...

in a quena, shakuhachi, ney, kaval etc.... the mouth space is part of the flute-volume. So the acoustic corrections are a little different to a labial-flute ( whistle ) or a sideblown flute. Where to make the spaces or where to put in a knot or a wedge - that is always different.. Only a few cylindr...

...everything can be done, also upright headjoints like a DRELINGER upright - you can see, I already work on this ( and many more ) ideas:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WC9Dz9MkYzQ

Hello my dear whistlefriends. I'm going forward in little steps to achieve one day the best possible result for my "AddOn". The very new thing is the curved brass-elbow with different coatings - pure brass - polished and laquered - silver coating. Please have a short look at this first sho...

I'm so happy to go a few steps forward with my developments, please have a look at this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kF_FcyC6fco I need to have a thumbrest and a few design-improvements at the fipple head...I hope to make a propper ( affordable ) pricecalculation in the next few weeks...well, wa...

Good morning my whistle - & flutefriends. Thank you very much for your interest in my "hybrid-instrument-studies" and trying to contact me in the last months. I am still working on the add ons for Boehmflute - the whistlestyle head and the quenastyle head. StatusQuo is: I am fighting w...

please use my website to make a contact to me:

www.educci.de

I will reply your questions very soon.

My design-researches led me to the hybrid-whistles with curved headjoints for this alto whistle in G and also for my low D whistle. The handling is extreamly comfortable for me - please have a short look. if you are interested to learn about it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMzfYA6w9QM