Air Blade?

[Polara Pat]

I'm sure that someone will correct me on this but I wasn't sure what to call them. Here are a few of my tweaked whistles that have small piece of material glued to the inside of the mouth piece to shorten the windway and cut the air. (enter f*rt joke here) See, I'm back to "air blade".

Just curious what material people are using? I'm hoping to do a bit of experimenting on a few cheapie whistles I have kicking around and could use some advice.

IMG_9481 by Pat McInnis, on Flickr

[retired]

PP - what are you using and what have you learned so far ?

[Polara Pat]

PP - what are you using and what have you learned so far ?

Thanks for the response.

I've learned a little and have tweaked a few whistles with generally good results by using the standard tricks. Filling the rear cavity with putty, filing burrs and imperfections from casting and slight mods on the ramp. What I haven't done is add this small piece of material as shown on the whistles above to shorten the windway. So I don't know what material to go with or how much to shorten it. I imagine it will be very slight. I'm using my various tweaked whistles as a template for my plans.

[Mr.Gumby]

Perspex on the outside bits or anything thin on the inside, laminating sheets, stuff like that. Whatever works, people have been cutting up guitar picks etc.

[Peter Duggan]

to shorten the windway

You're shortening the window rather than the windway. The windway is the channel you blow down, defined on its lower side by the block on a whistle that has one.

[retired]

I might mention that when you do shorten the window, depending on the thickness of the material you use - you will also be changing the height relationship of the windway and the ramp https://sites.google.com/site/guidogonz ... #Favourite

[Polara Pat]

to shorten the windway

You're shortening the window rather than the windway. The windway is the channel you blow down, defined on its lower side by the block on a whistle that has one.

Yes, shorten the window. My terminology is crap. I'm glad you knew what I meant. Guitar pick is an interesting idea. Those stupid things are everywhere in my shop.