The tweak of all tweaks or what do with a whistle that can't

MarkB · Post by **MarkB** » Wed Feb 20, 2002 6:08 pm

Boredom is the mother of all evil. It's a quiet night on the reference desk, and I had to answer a question for someone looking for websites on homemade instruments.

"I was on the net and couldn't find anything!!" Can you help me? In seconds I had more than you ever wanted to know about homemade instruments using Google.

"Gee how'd you do that?" Oh well the person was happy, so played with the question for a while and found this site below.

"Turn a tinwhistle into a "NO-Hole, Bugle-Scaled whistle." (Played with one finger and overblown)

So if you have a whistle that can't be tweaked and don't know what to do with it, go here:

http://www.ehhs.cmich.edu/~dhavlena/whistle2.htm

Mark

Martin Milner · Post by **Martin Milner** » Fri Feb 22, 2002 11:28 am

I never heard of a Cooperman whistle before, through these pages or elsewhere.

From the description they sound very Clarke Original/ Shaw.

Does anyone have one, or experience of one?

Blarney Pilgrim · Post by **Blarney Pilgrim** » Fri Feb 22, 2002 12:37 pm

My first whistle was a Cooperman. I bought it at a museum store for about 6 dollars. They are actually made of tin with a wooden fipple plug that actually sticks out beyond the rest of the mouth piece. It has breath a requirement and a sound much like a Clarke. The amazing thing is that it is the most in tune cheap whistle I have. They are made by the Cooperman fife and drum company and are sold at a number of museum stores and historical attractions.<br> Steve