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On my second whistle lesson, I managed to play something through without actually making a mistake, and – despite the fact I'd forgotten to tune my whistle – the tutor said "Great, you did that well". A woman at the next table wheeled round and said "Jaysus, it sounded like a bag of c...

A guy I used to work with often had to drill PVC pipes to make frames for theatrical props, and also make entire props out of PVC that were later painted up to resemble something else. He always used cone bits, and if it needed to be a neat hole, he'd use a cone bit with the maximum diameter the sam...

Wish me luck. Good luck, and it'll probably be fine! My Feadog has a small piece of Blu-Tack in it. If I fill too much of the cavity it deadens the tone, but it does need a little nodule the size of a lentil. Occasionally in very cold weather it will fall out, and I poke a fresh one in with the end...

Hi Moof Thanks for that interesting info, as it happens I do have emphysema so that's good to know. I only play for my own pleasure so the volume is not a problem, well not for me, maybe for the neighbours :D . I've seen other higher end whistles with this appalling machining on the blade and I jus...

The milling on Killarney blades is a bit weird looking, but at least on the two I own, it doesn't seem to affect the way they sound. They're the most efficient whistles I've played, making them ideal for an asthmatic. I'm not sure how, but the makers have somehow given them good back pressure but ke...

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(Having thought about it, might they be the pipes from a miniature organ? They definitely don't look designed to be played by mouth.)

The second approach is more ore less what an English flageolet does. Not sure why it was abandoned for whistles, because it strikes me as a very good idea, at least in the absence of a better solution. Maybe because for a long time, it wasn't needed? High whistles with plastic heads, once they came...

kkrell wrote: ↑Thu Dec 07, 2023 7:33 pm
Reader in the comments notes that:
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...and the police discovered they were murdered from the Toronto Star.

Oh, it's one of the weird M (or W) shaped ones.

I got a Clarke with a blade shaped a bit like that. I didn't like it much either, and I don't think it was very efficient.

Jon Antonsson has one on his website with reels, jigs and slip jigs: https://www.tunesandtools.com/tools I missed having hornpipes, so I downloaded a YouTube track from a bodhrán tutor who provides simple versions of dance rhythms for learners to play along with. I looped it using Audible until it w...

Nanohedron wrote: ↑Sat Mar 02, 2024 1:24 pm Considering that the open-hole keys have round holes, I have difficulty seeing the point.

And that the fingertips operating the said keys tend to be round as well.

I'd be interested to know where you heard the UK comments from, was it another forum? No, it was the first review on Amazon's UK site. I searched for 'WANXIAO Whistle' to see it was the same manufacturer as mine, but the result was lots of football whistles. I tried 'WANXIAO D Whistle' instead, whi...

I bought the version with the plastic head a few months ago out of curiosity (it was listed under various brand names, but they all appeared to be the same whistle). It was much better in tune than a recent model Feadog, but in all probability I happened to get a good Chinese one and a duff Irish on...

Not a fluter, but I was taught to keep both little fingers anchored on the whistle (late 1960s). Nowadays I play with the left hand pinkie anchored, but the right hand one not.

He posted on his Facebook page a couple of days ago – maybe try contacting him via that?