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Post a video of you playing it or a sound clip, then people can decide it it sounds like a recorder ;). I see some advice online about making the labium/lip a little more blunt to make whistle less "recordery", but I would hate for you to ruin your hard work. Edit: I am actually envious o...

Update: I made a new block, this time of delrin, because the block of wood for more that was wax absorbed moisture, now the whistle is very good, the tuning is almost perfect in both octaves, so far everything is fine, but ... .. sounds like a recorder, not a whistle .... any ideas will be much appr...

Things are coming out better, flatten the top of the block and improve the octave change, but its sound is very loud and strident. Now, try moving the block and the aluminum windway cover closer to the lip, a fraction of a mm at a time. Too far away makes it hard to get up to the second octave; too...

Things are coming out better, flatten the top of the block and improve the octave change, but its sound is very loud and strident, the window is 7.5mm wide, will it be too narrow?

The whistle looks good. I have been experimenting myself with making whistles and flutes and PVC plastic pipe is a good (and cheap) material for making whistles. Maybe after you have perfected making a PVC whistle you can try again using metal. I agree, unfortunately in my country pvc is toxic, so ...

The images you uploaded are too high a resolution to use here. When I tried to insert a link, the photo came out huge. Here's a link to the second photo: http://i.imgur.com/VNiiuaZ.jpg . Point the end of the whistle toward a bright window and look up the windway from the mouthpiece toward the end. ...

Chifmunk wrote:(I can see your images when I right-click and view the image in a new tab)- tip in case others see broken image links here.

Thanks for the advice, i wll re-upload the photos.

Hello everyone, my name is Facu, I'm from Argentina, I'm not a musician, I know some basic guitar things but that's it. A week ago, my son and I listened to a song from a video game that we played together, composed by bill brown, the song is called sheperds flute, it's a beautiful melody, he asked ...