Do any of you know of a type of resonant pipe or whistle that can be sounded on the draw breath (ie. whilst inhaling)? It could be a simple flue pipe with a fipple, which only sounds a single tone.
If you think this sounds ridiculous, check out this ingenious example of an instrument with blow and draw fippled pipes:
https://youtu.be/jEXi8pqlZKY
I'm interested to know if there are any other examples of inhaler pipes/whistles. In particular I want to understand where the fipple is placed and how it works to make the draw pipe speak.
Inhaler Whistle or Flue Pipe?
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That was quite interesting!
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Re: Inhaler Whistle or Flue Pipe?
Interesting set of pipes - he's using the same principle as a harmonica, he's using two pipe/pairs, blow/draw, so the fipple would need to be reversed for half of them, presumably, somehow.
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Not exactly the same blow~draw principle as the harmonica. No air is being drawn through the pipes.
If you look at the patent drawings, air really only goes in one direction: across the fipple!
It's a terribly clever design, though: you push air across one set of fipples and draw air across another set!
If you look at the patent drawings, air really only goes in one direction: across the fipple!
It's a terribly clever design, though: you push air across one set of fipples and draw air across another set!
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I didn't see the two rows of holes in the video, but it is still a clever design, I wonder why it never caught on(?).
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Very clever. Remarkable what you can do with it.