Results are in: Favourite Fipple Flute, other than whistle

Besides the tinwhistle, what is your favourite member of the fipple flute family? If other, you may, of course, post below. This poll ends in three days.

Final results:

Poll Question: Besides tinwhistle, what is your favourite fipple flute?

ocarina
7% [ 2 ]

flageolette (French or English)
7% [ 2 ]

tabor pipe/galoubet/txistu
3% [ 1 ]

Tonette/Flutophone/Songflute/Precorder
0% [ 0 ]

Native American flute
22% [ 6 ]

frula or dvoyanka
3% [ 1 ]

recorder
44% [ 12 ]

Melody Flute
3% [ 1 ]

ethnic fipple flutes
3% [ 1 ]

Papageno flute
3% [ 1 ]

Total Votes : 27

Despite the (jokingly?) bad press it sometimes gets on C&F, the recorder is a tremendously good instrument. Besides, I met my wife via recorder playing ( sold her a Bass on eBay) so it holds a very special place in my heart…

I agree.But too much expensive if I try to get good recorders.And I feel so many biased views(for example in Japan) because of so many plastic cheap recorders used in educational scenes and their bad playings because of the lack of instructions to make their recorders sound good. These biased views can cause frustration every time I play the recorder in public(if I think I want to play).

People are not so biased against tin whistles as recorders,I think it’s too late(or long way to go from now on) for recorders to get the right place.Tin whistles are easier to play in many ways(because they dont know). :slight_smile:

Just my biased opinion.

I think you are right, at least regarding people’s initial reaction. But I think they might change their minds, if they hear it played well.

Voted for the double whistle drone thingies.

Maybe because I’m back from St-Chartier Int’l Rencontres of droned instruments (i.e. mostly pipes, hurdy-gurdies).

Some Hungarian woodwind maker was there selling double whistles in D, in wood and at a decent price. Interestingly, these were made by “sandwiching” two whistles, glued by the flat side of their D profile. They sounded about all right, except none was in tune with, er, each other, i.e. right tube all holes closed didn’t match the drone tube. The length of the tubes did match, but not the position of the windows…

So I didn’t buy whistles in St-Chartier.

Not even that nice pale boxwood Bb from Jon Swayne, from which you could buy any whistle from D to low D without any wait…

I can’t figure out how to vote. Where is there a “button” to click on?
Lolly

Oh, you have to post a REPLY and THEN the box comes up…o.k.

Around here, people assume a whistle is a toy and they consider recorders real instruments. When I tell them that the whistle’s a real instrument, they assume it’s just another name for recorder, then ask what’s the difference, then I give up.

Anyone who thinks the recorder isn’t a real instrument (or that the bassoon is boring) should be sentenced to listen to Telemann’s concerto for bassoon and recorder. In fact, I think it should be required for graduating high school, but then I’m probably in the minority there. :slight_smile:

There was a band back in the late 80s called Shadowfax. It was kind of a fusion jazz thing. Their lead melody guy played what looked to be a regular modern flute with all the keys, but in place of the transverse head piece he had an endblown fipple arangement very much like a giant slide-whistle head. The fipple was black and the flute had a finish that made it look like hematite or a pencil lead. Truly phenominal sound… fully chromatic, 3+ octaves, full jazz flutey sound. I have never seen another like it but would like to know where to get one.

This would definately rank among my faforites.

-Scott

That’s no sentence. It’s a reward. http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/199/drora_bruck.html

Same here!

:astonished:

[quote="Hiro Ringo
I agree.But too much expensive if I try to get good recorders.And I feel so many biased views(for example in Japan) because of so many plastic cheap recorders used in educational scenes and their bad playings .[/quote]

An excellent recorder need not be expensive. There are some bad plastic ones, but there are some that are really fantastic, performance grade instruments. I love those made by Yamaha-- I routinely play a $60 plastic Yamaha tenor in performance with our Baroque consort. One of our other recorder players uses ONLY plastic Yamahas and they sound terrific. There are also some very excellent teaching books for the recorder, like those for whistle. I learned from one of these written by the Trapp Family ( as in The Sound of Music). All in all, the recorder is definitely the simplest, cheapest serious classical instrument in the world. Just don’t try to play one at a session… :slight_smile:

Oh! I forgot to include the slide whistle as an option! Well, maybe it’ll do okay as a write-in vote. Melody Pops count as slide whistles, also, because they are slide whistles.

Hey, where have all the taborers gone? One vote for tabor pipe (and that’s mine of course) - I can’t believe it!

Banging and tooting all alone :sniffle:
Claus

The results are in. The chads have been dimpled. The chiffs have been fippled. According to our poll, by a two-to-one margin with the next runner up, the recorder is by far the most popular fipple flute, besides the whistle.

i love the sound of crystal hall flutes. some day they someone will make a glass whistle :stuck_out_tongue:

I think the band broke up some years back but he’d still not be that old and probably plays in another band somewhere. Given the assumption that most professional musicians are somewhere on the web, have you ever considered tracking him down and asking him what it was and where he got it?

Why not make an end blown (like a whistle) type flute with the fipple and full set of chromatic keys? :party: It could be set up sort of like a soprano sax. :smiley: This arrangement might make for an easier to hold instrument, being the lazy sort I’m all for easy!

JeffC

It’s been done, but, yeah, I’m all for it.

Our good friend Daniel Bingamon makes keyed chromatic whistles. http://jubileeinstruments.messianic-webhosting.com/whis-chromatic.htm