Chiff and Fipple Forums

Thanks Tunborough for the suggestions. I am new to this forum and saw that there really was no makers sub-forum. It looks like the Trad Tech forum is the closest. My interest in WIDesigner is from a maker's point of view to eliminate the trial an error approach. I really spend most of my on-line tim...

I downloaded and installed WIDesigner 2.5 and viewed some introductory tutorial videos. What I would like to do is input data from my "preferred" whistles to create a whistle profile of each of them. Susato profile, Oak profile, Generation Profile, Sweet profile, etc; and then see if they ...

Thanks for all your input. I read the thread posted by Tunborough ( a big thanks) about raising the pitch of the second octave by using a small tubular insert at the head. I made several trial inserts of various lengths from 1/2" brass tubing that fits quite nicely into my 17/32 body extension:...

My last post was back in 2002 and since then I have been making violins (mostly Strad models) for the past 18 years but for a summer diversion I decided to make a tunable wooden whistle based on a O'Riordan model. The first prototype with a cylindrical tube was OK but the second octave is a bit flat...

I am interested in buying a low D and had a chance to play 3 Howards ( 2 nickel and one black one)while I was in Toronto at the Recorder Shop on Dovercourt. All three were out of tune on the C# ( way too flat). I brought my Korg AT tuner and tested all three and they were exactly out of tune on the ...