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by chas
Sun Mar 17, 2024 12:50 pm
Forum: Flute Forum
Topic: OK, now I've seen everything
Replies: 8
Views: 532

Re: OK, now I've seen everything

I guess once he heard the Pennywhistle Sessions, he figured the shak was the next logical progression. ; )
by chas
Sun Mar 17, 2024 11:17 am
Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Poststructural Pub
Topic: corned beef
Replies: 1
Views: 85

corned beef

I wanna give a shout out to Ben, who had a thread a few years ago about making reuben sandwiches from scratch. That motivated me to start corning my own beef. The stuff in the store is too fatty for me, so I start with eye round, which isn't a great cut of meat for most purposes, but makes wonderful...
by chas
Wed Feb 14, 2024 4:45 pm
Forum: Flute Forum
Topic: Flute Moisture
Replies: 16
Views: 4658

Re: Flute Moisture

I'm a wet player. Irish flute, baroque flute, whistle, heck even when I played the clarinet. I've been playing flute for 20 years and don't expect to outgrow it. I pre-warm the head of whatever I'm playing. A few minutes under my arm warms it up nicely. I swab the head out after about 5 minutes of p...
by chas
Tue Jan 23, 2024 8:04 pm
Forum: Flute Forum
Topic: Flute Weights Sticky
Replies: 19
Views: 3324

Re: Flute Weights Sticky

Thanks for adding those guys. Bet you’re having fun with that C foot Charlie! It's fun and frustrating at the same time. I have very little experience with 8-keys, and those were all Rudall-Rose style (or whatever the word is for that), while this is Boehm-style. I MUCH prefer Aaron's design, but i...
by chas
Tue Jan 16, 2024 4:09 pm
Forum: Flute Forum
Topic: Flute Weights Sticky
Replies: 19
Views: 3324

Re: Flute Weights Sticky

I just got the new C foot for my Olwell, so here are the measurements with the C foot and the old one-key foot Maker Name: Patrick Olwell Maker’s model type designation: medium-holed (aka Nicholson) Material type: boxwood Headjoint: partially lined with slide (aka French style) Rings: Silver Number ...
by chas
Thu Jan 04, 2024 4:37 pm
Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Whistle Forum
Topic: Double hole whistles?
Replies: 177
Views: 13605

Re: Double hole whistles?

The double holes on a recorder have a flat space to make it easy to cover one and not the other. This isn't possible on a whistle, which has a much thinner wall. The answer on the whistle is to half-hole the Eflat. The hole is generally large enough that with just a little practice doing that is ju...
by chas
Sun Dec 31, 2023 11:48 am
Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Whistle Forum
Topic: Double hole whistles?
Replies: 177
Views: 13605

Re: Double hole whistles?

The double holes on a recorder have a flat space to make it easy to cover one and not the other. This isn't possible on a whistle, which has a much thinner wall. The answer on the whistle is to half-hole the Eflat. The hole is generally large enough that with just a little practice doing that is jus...
by chas
Sun Dec 24, 2023 8:26 pm
Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Poststructural Pub
Topic: More "divided by a common language" stuff
Replies: 414
Views: 196535

Re: More "divided by a common language" stuff

This isn't likely a "divided by a common language" thing, but it's something that bothers me. I saw a movie a month or two ago, can't remember the name. It's about a team that goes out to look into a space ship that's gone incommunicado. There's some sort of scientist who helped design the...
by chas
Sun Dec 24, 2023 11:11 am
Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Whistle Forum
Topic: Making wooden whistles - a few questions
Replies: 26
Views: 2151

Re: Making wooden whistles - a few questions

I'm a little late to the party, but here's my 2 cents. I have a 9x20 JET metalworking lathe to make fittings, cut slides, and to turn the tube to just about the final OD. I do smooth things out with a straight chisel on the wood lathe and do just a bit of sanding. The lathe weighs about 250 lb/110 k...
by chas
Sun Dec 03, 2023 12:19 pm
Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Poststructural Pub
Topic: Did I miss anything?
Replies: 7
Views: 3109

Re: Did I miss anything?

Oh, the usual. You know, struck by a car in a grocery store parking lot a couple months ago, knocked 20 feet through the air, landed flat on my back, TBI, skull broken in two places. Other than that, couldn't be better. Good grief. Hope you're well on the mend! I just found out the fully keyed C fo...
by chas
Sat Dec 02, 2023 1:45 pm
Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Poststructural Pub
Topic: Did I miss anything?
Replies: 7
Views: 3109

Re: Did I miss anything?

Oh, the usual. You know, struck by a car in a grocery store parking lot a couple months ago, knocked 20 feet through the air, landed flat on my back, TBI, skull broken in two places. Other than that, couldn't be better. I just found out the fully keyed C foot for my boxwood Olwell is coming in Janua...
by chas
Thu Nov 30, 2023 3:16 pm
Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Poststructural Pub
Topic: Shane MacGowan RIP
Replies: 2
Views: 1474

Re: Shane MacGowan RIP

I just heard the news myself. He was one of a kind.
by chas
Sun Oct 15, 2023 7:26 pm
Forum: Flute Forum
Topic: Pitch, and simple keyless flutes
Replies: 9
Views: 3238

Re: Pitch, and simple keyless flutes

First, I'd suggest tuning to the G rather than the A. The A is one of the notes that's sometimes compromised, basically due to the size of the human hand (the tone hole has to be very small). Have you checked whether the second-octave d is closer to in-tune if you don't vent the top hole? I've had f...
by chas
Sat Oct 14, 2023 7:22 pm
Forum: Flute Forum
Topic: Symptoms of Blackwood allergy?
Replies: 33
Views: 6199

Re: Symptoms of Blackwood allergy?

Several years ago I occasionally got something akin to small areas of poison ivy on my lower lip, which would last for a couple of days to a couple of weeks at a time. That turned out to be from a cocobolo whistle that I was playing. Fortunately I haven't had it from any other rosewoods, and I much ...