My question is what is it? And who made it?
It's a conical with a pretty big bore - 17.2mm at the window end running down about 12.2mm at the foot end. And those points are 293mm apart. Those bore diameters would average out to 14.7mm. And so it has a pretty good tone in the low octave but gets pretty difficult above xxx ooo in the 2nd octave. It's tuned around C.
Now it's quite possible that I made it, way back in the seventies when I was starting out as a flute maker. Apart from flutes, I made a lot of simple piccolos and a few set of pipes while I was finding my way, so it's quite possible that this was something I also made. The timber looks plausibly Australian. But, if I made it, what was my inspiration? It doesn't resemble any of the whistles I have from the period or can remember seeing. I wondered if it might have been a design from a book or article, or based on some other whistle that I didn't own but had come across.
And you'd think if I made it, I would have a reamer in the reamer drawer marked C whistle? No such thing. Or a drawing? But again nothing I can find.
The only conical I can remember owning was the classic Clarke's in C, but alas, I can't find it. From memory it was not a fat whistle, so it seems unlikely that this whistle is a wooden version of that. Anyone have a Clarke's in C and measurement tools?
So, if the whistle above looks familiar, I'd love to know what it is!
