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Keep up the good work Hans. I love your calculator, I use it to calculate all my tube hole placements. I'm not sure how hard this would be. but if you could make a button to switch it to use imperial measurements, that would be awesome. ... Thank you! Unfortunately it is not a simple matter to bolt...

I've written and put on my web site an essay outlining a number of the various musical scale modes, and how they can be played on a standard whistle, using techniques of half-covering holes to play flattened or raised notes. It is in three parts, from basics to more advanced, in a sort of progressio...

For a 12mm bore 4mm window length would be about right. On my 12mm bore high D (narrow bore design) I got a window 7mm wide and 3.5mm long. But looking at your image, I see that the top of the windway exit is aligned with the bottom (the block). I always let the block intrude a little into the windo...

I'd be more inclined to say that low 'G' is the last size that most people can play without using pipers grip. I've got average sized male hands & low 'F' is right on the border line for me, but more comfortable with pipers grip. Yes, I actually agree with you. I play a low F with offset finger...

I'll need to get along to my nearest instrument shop (Scayles in Edinburgh) and try out an A.If that's possible in these Covid times. You said you played an F. I have an Overton low D I bought years ago but never really managed the pipers grip, is it possible to play the low F in standard fingering...

I've done a bit of research on the topic, and I think ET is only part of the problem. Because ET whistles can still oxx ooo. I have a ET reyburn which can (he makes ET and JI ones, this one is a specific ET order). I believe MK whistles are technically ET and can. And my DIY's using your calculator...

[...] On my Burke A, the cross finger is horribly out of tune, and to me is very obvious. The thumb hole note on the other hand is perfect and sounds like every other note. Michael Burke doesnt try to make a good cross finger on his whistles because they have a thumb hole option, or you can tape th...

You can experiment with the effects of raising the walls around the window using poster putty. How aesthetically pleasing a more permanent design turns out to be is a matter of personal opinion too. But the effect is undeniable, giving a stronger and louder tone. Organ builders knew this and added w...

I just want to say I love your whistle calculator. Its the base of all the whistle bodies I make. I tweak the hole sizes, but the positions it gives me is always excellent tuning, and is better than some whistles I've bought at playing in tune easily. Thank you! I like to give full credits for much...

I have read some interesting observations by Pietro Sopranzi in this regard. The farther the jet of air coming out of the windway is from the blade of the labium, the more the notes of the low register sound good, but this distance makes the notes of the high register feeble and uncertain and dirti...

I've made that low D whistle myself, the head is a recent development. Body with offset finger holes for my personal preference. The sixth hole is perhaps a bit larger than usual and therefore sits a bit lower, with more spacing to the fifth hole. Fine if your hands are large. Tuning is just intoned...

okay, I bite, although my opinion is of no importance: I listened to both tracks several times, through speakers and through headphones. Lovely playing, very subtle differences. I prefer #2 over #1 slightly. To me #2 has a little more brilliance, slightly more pronounced higher frequencies. It sound...

Interesting discussion. What Hans has built and suggested is basically a Fajardo wedge. A tapered flue (which is how I build my instruments) helps the player a lot to bring the pitches up in tune with ease in the second octave so flue design plays an important role. The cylindrical insert is actual...

I modelled slightly thicker and thinner walls on the insert, and it looks like a wall size around 0.5 mm works well. For designing a flute that's in tune with an insert, well ... The current release of WIDesigner doesn't include the new features that I'm using, so you'd have to wait for the next re...