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Yes, quite possibly a tourist object.

The one that works takes some care to get into the low octave, it's fairly quiet but they are never going to be session whistles. I haven't tried to get the full range of notes out of it.

Thanks, yes, I will probably make a prototype of some description before the final version.

Thanks all,
I will fix the plug and look out some sensible hardwood to rebuild the blade. That does seem to be favourite.

Malcolm

Honestly, I'd use those as decorations but not spend a lot of time getting them to play. Go ahead if you want to for fun, but you're not likely to ever get them to play well. They are quite attractive as display pieces. Thanks Paul, fortunately I'm not expecting to get nice whistles out of it. I'm ...

Thought I'd followed up with a link to some photos, but can't see the post. Anyway, this should point to some photos.

The plug shown is a quick and dirty turned down in a drill job, and has been beaten up a bit. Will make a nice one when I get around to it.

Some progress. The bore is 11mm, length lip to end 10.25 ins and overall 11.75 ins. No holes, no cracks, wood doesn't seem porous. It has a few issues. The mouthpiece end is rotated with respect to the body, which makes it hard to align the plug with the lip. The airway is in the plug. The beak is d...

I have two intricately carved wooden whistles. They are more exercises in carving than serious whistles, but that's not the point. I didn't make them, but bought them for a very small amount of money. One plays, roughly in C#, and I can get a scale out of it. It's sort of playable. The other, simila...

As for the slide, I may cut the head off my first whistle and attach it to a new body with a coupler for now until I can get a body I like, then I can start messing with the head again, and maybe work on figuring out the more aesthetically pleasing slide. There always seems to be just one more tool...

As a bit of a follow up, I put adhesive tape over all the holes and can play a clean D on two octaves. So that tells me where to look.

Thanks again, all noted. It might be possible to drop in on Dixon's place, I'm down that way from time to time, or maybe buy something on line.

Thanks for the comments, I have a clearer expectation. As an aside, after looking at other threads, I had a good look inside the Generation whistle and discovered it was really mucky inside with a brown gunge (yuk) and what appeared to be fluff or fibres. Origin unknown, since I had it from new and ...

Hi, First post here - hello! - learning melodeon but wanted for some time to play whistle. However... Pretty sure this will have been asked (and with luck, answered) many times but couldn't find it - please feel free to point me to existing threads (or a tutorial on the search engine! :D ) I have tw...