Chiff and Fipple Forums

Blackmage: Here are some of my bookmarks on flute building. If you read these pages and get some practical experience of your own, I'm sure you will be able to be a success. http://www.cwo.com/~ph_kosel/flutomat.html http://www.cwo.com/~ph_kosel/designs.html http://home.earthlink.net/~rdmiller3/flut...

You're absolutely right. I should have mentioned I was sticking to
Major scales

Hah hah hah! I'm not trying to be cocky, I'm just happy that I knew something!

fearfaoin wrote:
The only Western scale that has no sharps or flats is the C scale.

Not quite right...

A minor also has no sharps or flats... Heh heh heh! A minor is the relative minor of C major...

I made some whistles almost exactly like the one that Familyguy posted a picture of. I modeled them after a cheap souvenir shop bamboo whistle probably imported from India or Pakistan. The "strait-through" system seemed to work fairly well for me. Here is a pic of the bamboo whistle and th...

Unseen: Thanks for your kind words about my father--and thanks to everybody else for the other kind remarks too. It means a lot to me--it really does. If you want a flute you can have one of mine. Name a key and if I don't already have it I will make it for you. I'm not trying by any means to profit...

Here is the current status of my collection for what it's worth. I know it isn't as prestigious as some of you guys' collections, but collecting, making, & playing whistles (and flutes) has been a source of so much joy for for me since taking it up shortly after the tragic death of my father thi...

Here is the whole thing. It's a little too breathy sounding and I can't adjust it out by moving the fipple. I think I may need to make a new fipple with a smaller wind channel. Also, I could fill in some of the excess space with sticky-tack. More on this later. I am open to suggestions. http://webpa...

http://webpages.charter.net/rigby275/newfipple01.jpg I started out with a piece of PVC pipe cut to the approximate length I needed for my whistle. For this project I used a leftover piece of 1/2" Sch. 40 about 12" long. It turned out being an almost perfect C with no trimming. http://webp...

I just received my 3 whistles. THANK YOU! They were all exactly like advertised and packaged very well. You get my A++ positive feedback rating! Hah hah hah! As for the whistles themselves: I was pleasantly surprised with the original Clarke I was a little let down by the Generation The Oak was just...

If I'm too flat in the second octive, do I need to push the cork in more or back it out some?

Nah, you got it all wrong. I play the Bb whistle by sucking through it instead of blowing through it. Hah hah hah!!

I use pieces of dowel rod. The 7/8" is just barely too big to fit in the bore of 3/4" PVC and 5/8" dowel is just barely too big to fit in the bore of 1/2" PVC. I cut off a piece for my respective pipe size and sand around the circumference of it till it's a snug fit down the bore...

Wow! I think I'm becoming obsessed! Hah hah hah! Here is tonight's handiwork. I made a low D flute then I made flutes in D, C, and Bb. I still have a little bit of pipe left. I wonder what I'll make tomorrow... I'm thinking a low G maybe. Of this batch, I'm sort of partial to the Bb which is picture...

Wow! I think I'm becoming obsessed! Hah hah hah! Here is tonight's handiwork. I made a low D flute then I made flutes in D, C, and Bb. I still have a little bit of pipe left. I wonder what I'll make tomorrow... I'm thinking a low G maybe. Of this batch, I'm sort of partial to the Bb which is picture...