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- Sat Apr 20, 2024 4:59 am
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Whistle Forum
- Topic: Generation B natural?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 474
Re: Generation B natural?
Top tip ... go down to your local DIY/Hardware store and buy a pipe-cutter. Don't try to cut the pipe with a hacksaw.
- Thu Jan 11, 2024 3:58 pm
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Whistle Forum
- Topic: approximate value of a Laughing Whistle?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 2619
- Wed Dec 27, 2023 6:44 am
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Whistle Forum
- Topic: High Ds with minimal impact on lungs/chest
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1781
Re: High Ds with minimal impact on lungs/chest
I know it's not fashionable to say, but what about a Generation D? Sweet and nimble requiring little air, "traditional" sounding with basically no back pressure. If you want to go a little step further, then it's still possible to pick up Generation whistles from the 70s that came from a d...
- Mon Dec 11, 2023 7:52 am
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Whistle Forum
- Topic: What's woad?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2224
Re: What's woad?
Buying too many whistles makes you blue.
- Fri Nov 24, 2023 6:39 am
- Forum: Flute Forum
- Topic: Norman Rockwell The Love Song, 1926
- Replies: 7
- Views: 5999
- Thu Nov 23, 2023 1:34 am
- Forum: Flute Forum
- Topic: Cork Grease - ecological
- Replies: 15
- Views: 8153
Re: Cork Grease - ecological
OK, so I've tried looking this up, and the closest that I've got is articles like the following: https://www.leafscore.com/nontoxic-cosmetics/is-beeswax-eco-friendly/ So, I suspect that what they mean by "bee-friendly" is that this is beeswax is not from a big commercial setup, no moving o...
- Thu Nov 23, 2023 1:04 am
- Forum: Flute Forum
- Topic: Cork Grease - ecological
- Replies: 15
- Views: 8153
- Wed Nov 22, 2023 5:14 pm
- Forum: Flute Forum
- Topic: Cork Grease - ecological
- Replies: 15
- Views: 8153
Re: Cork Grease - ecological
I'm looking for a recipe for an ecological cork grease with bees wax. Can someone help? Greetings and thanks Holger I've just bought the Ionareed "Cork Remedy" cork grease which is "made using bee-friendly beeswax from Dorset", and uses "packaged in 100% recyclable packagin...
- Sat Nov 11, 2023 4:11 pm
- Forum: Flute Forum
- Topic: Remarkable Innovation by William Pond
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3405
Re: Remarkable Innovation by William Pond
"I don’t play musical instruments, have no idea how to play this flute. It works." Hmmm. Just for fun I pulled out a Zenon treble recorder head from the Cupboard of Doom and put it onto the end of my flute, replacing the normal Long D foot. It just happened to jam on well enough. The resu...
- Fri Oct 13, 2023 3:42 am
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Whistle Forum
- Topic: Is There Actually Any Difference Between Generation Models?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4077
Re: Is There Actually Any Difference Between Generation Models?
Yes, they're all the same in their design etc., excepting the colours.
- Thu Oct 12, 2023 7:52 am
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Whistle Forum
- Topic: Modifying Whistle to get a G#
- Replies: 18
- Views: 7088
Re: Modifying Whistle to get a G#
I'm surmising that you're talking about the Great Highland Bagpipes (there are dozens and dozens, probably hundreds, of different types of bagpipes), so you may be interested in this:]
https://generationmusic.co.uk/product/e ... chantress/
https://generationmusic.co.uk/product/e ... chantress/
- Sat Oct 07, 2023 5:03 am
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Whistle Forum
- Topic: How many high whistles is too many?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 5304
Re: How many high whistles is too many?
As with many things, it all depends. I'll tune my whistles at a session, some people don't, or are not able to. Recently at our session we've been getting up to four whistle players (whistle only) and myself who alternates with melodeon. None of us are playing loud whistles and they don't clash all ...
- Wed Sep 06, 2023 2:03 pm
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Whistle Forum
- Topic: Tweaking a whistle with a dirty/harsh sound
- Replies: 148
- Views: 58709
Re: Tweaking a whistle with a dirty/harsh sound
These things happen They certainly do. They're malignant and deceptive. But they're not the same thing as outsourcing cnc operations, which is a legitimate production method. Indeed, there's a well known English whistle brand where the production happens in some local engineering shop, with the des...
- Wed Sep 06, 2023 1:54 pm
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Whistle Forum
- Topic: Whistles which sound like the Clarke Original ?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3937
Re: Whistles which sound like the Clarke Original ?
The modern-day Clarke whistles are not the same as the ones when I were a lad. Actually, they were only in C back then, but what I mean is huge wind-way cavity that you have to blow into and the strange shape of the labium. I'm not going to tell you how to do it, or even recommend it (whistle destru...
- Mon Sep 04, 2023 9:13 am
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Whistle Forum
- Topic: Tweaking a whistle with a dirty/harsh sound
- Replies: 148
- Views: 58709
Re: Tweaking a whistle with a dirty/harsh sound
The most likely scenario is that the manufacture of the 'folk' whistle, Generation's cheaper line, has been farmed out to a cheap labour country, just like Clarke has done with its cheaper line, the Meg. Nothing unusual or concerning there. The Generation "folk whistles" have the same &qu...