Yes exactly. When playing up to speed there's not time to tailor your breath for each note in order to fix an out-of-tune scale.joshuaZ wrote: when one is playing in front of a tuner, every note can be intentionally blown to be in tune. However, in actual playing... there isn't time to adjust breathing carefully for every note
Even in slower tunes I don't want to have the burden of doing that. I want each note to be right where I expect it and need it, in tune, so that I can use my breath for expressive purposes (if I choose) rather than having to vary my breath for pitch correction.
None of my whistles suffer from that variation.joshuaZ wrote: the notes suffer from a variation from ET according to the design of the whistle/flute. This is further exacerbated by the fact that different whistles require different breathing pattern from across notes to be "needle straight up" in ET.
I need them all to be in tune to ET, and they are. Some came that way, others didn't, and I had to modify them a bit.
I've used as many as a dozen different whistles at one gig, and I don't want to have to try to remember a dozen different quirky out-of-tune scales. So all of my whistles blow alike.