pancelticpiper wrote:
The holes on that Becker Low D look small.
Thing about good-playing Low Ds, you can line up several makers and they'll all have nearly identical hole layout.
So when a maker deviates from that tried-and-true layout I wonder why.
I feel like Becker didnt really deviate from the norm, it just looks like the entire hole layout is moved slightly closer to the mouthpiece, making them all smaller. But the hole spacing looks very similar to the norm.
I fully agree that makers need to stick to the proven math's. I've made a few whistles with the 'low tech' whistle hole distances from the windway, but shifted equally to one way (mostly because my tube sizes are different making the needed length different. So I try to shift the holes to counter it, otherwise my holes are all too small or too big). And they still play well, and can oxx ooo well. But my original whistles I made I tried less hard to stick to the measurements, and oxx ooo just doesnt work.
Heres a link to my old vs new whistle bodies
https://imgur.com/a/adX2M2j (not posting image because the resolution is crazy lol. Idk how to make it size well on the forums)
Here I have 2 A's and 2 G's. The second of each pair is the new good one. The good A is a smaller inner diameter (its thicker wall), so the holes ended up shifted and are all super small. But it still plays well and oxx ooo works well. The left of each pair doesnt oxx ooo. It just doesnt work. to me visually they look pretty close and shouldnt be that bad but I guess theres some more whistle science behind it. so I just follow the numbers on the low tech whistle haha.