Whistle Repair
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Whistle Repair
I have a Sindt C whistle that got flatted a bit Do you know anyone that could fix it??
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Re: Whistle Repair
John Sindt himself would be my advice as well. If it is a minor dent and you are half way around the world you could email him and ask if someone who straightens dents out of trumpets or trombones could do the trick. I had to ask him a question about mine a couple of years ago and he was pretty quick to respond.
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Re: Whistle Repair
I've made replacement tubes for damaged Sindts before. They're not exact matches for the original, but still work just fine.
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Re: Whistle Repair
If it's just the tube you could try sliding a wooden dowel or pvc pipe gently through the whistle to restore the shape
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Re: Whistle Repair
I think I heard somewhere that a standard Generation D tube works pretty well in the Sindt D...
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Re: Whistle Repair
There is even a video on youtube from Mary Bergin playing that "mod"--a Sindt with a Generation body.
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And here Mary Bergin plays that exact mod -- you can see it clearly at the 1:11 mark.
https://youtu.be/LHFwG0nceTQ
https://youtu.be/LHFwG0nceTQ
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To be honest, that doesn't look to me like a Generation label, too large and too square. It looks to me like a piece of red tape or maybe paint used to quickly identify a particular whistle amongst others.Sedi wrote:And here Mary Bergin plays that exact mod -- you can see it clearly at the 1:11 mark.
https://youtu.be/LHFwG0nceTQ
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Re: Whistle Repair
To be honest, that doesn't look to me like a Generation label, too large and too square. It looks to me like a piece of red tape or maybe paint used to quickly identify a particular whistle amongst others.ecadre wrote:Sedi wrote:And here Mary Bergin plays that exact mod -- you can see it clearly at the 1:11 mark.
https://youtu.be/LHFwG0nceTQ
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Had a look at a couple of other videos, and I think this one confirms my suspicions - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7tXI0muUz4
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Ah, I think you are right. In this video you can see it more clearly.
https://youtu.be/XCNZng2xA2Q
https://youtu.be/XCNZng2xA2Q
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Re: Whistle Repair
It's a square of red electrical tape. That Gen tube thing was debunked long ago. See this thread (photos long gone).To be honest, that doesn't look to me like a Generation label, too large and too square. It looks to me like a piece of red tape or maybe paint used to quickly identify a particular whistle amongst others.
See also : Bloomfield's Sindt/Gen hybrid and Sindog that older members will remember and new members have heard semi aware echoes of.
And FWIW, a D Gen tube fitting a D Sindt is not a particularly useful solution to the OP's problem.
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Re: Whistle Repair
Why? It would be a solution to the problem. Part broken -> part replaced -> whistle fixed and taken care of the cross-fingered-C-nat-problem at the same time.
Apart from that I am certain any music shop with a service center that can repair brass instruments or boehm flutes (technically a woodwind) can repair it. I had a Boehm flute were the head joint was loose. They managed to widen the slide a tiny bit and all was good. I guess they can repair it with the same tools they use for such a problem.
Apart from that I am certain any music shop with a service center that can repair brass instruments or boehm flutes (technically a woodwind) can repair it. I had a Boehm flute were the head joint was loose. They managed to widen the slide a tiny bit and all was good. I guess they can repair it with the same tools they use for such a problem.