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Ivory seems to crack rather easily too. There were a huge number of German flutes made with ivory heads and wooden bodies, and it's hard to find any of those where the ivory head is not cracked.
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How about Narwhal ivory! But just not one ivory tusk but two from the same whale.
Inuit hits jackpot: 18-year-old kills rare whale to harvest valuable tusks
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Inuit hits jackpot: 18-year-old kills rare whale to harvest valuable tusks
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This is probably not a particularly serious poll but if you check out www.westonwhistles.co.uk, there is stainless steel Sop D and A about ready to come out of prototype.
Didn't see stainless steel on the list.
Didn't see stainless steel on the list.
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In the past, I have seriously considered making whistles out of chemical vapor deposition diamond. I’ve even posted my idea on this forum. Diamond is deposited as a gradually growing layer in a process completely within the abilities of an amateur mad scientist such as myself; http://www.ornl.gov/sci/lsm/projects_su ... inear.html http://www.chm.bris.ac.uk/pt/diamond/end.htm http://www.chm.bris.ac.uk/pt/diamond/pdf/rscreview.pdf.
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Also, my guardian spirit is Sehlat, “a teddy-bear with 6 inch fangs”. Sehlats are sometimes kept as pets by Vulcans and are rather protective of others. If you hurt any sehlats trying to make a whistle with its fangs, you will have me to deal with.
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Although ivory cracks rather easily, fossilized ivory doesn't seem to. I have fossil walrus ivory bridge pins on my D-35.
I don't know how large the available chunks are, but John Mickelson, the Fossil Ivory King, probably knows: http://www.fossilivory.com/
(Maybe the original ivory cracked before fossilizing, and all that's left are pieces large enough for bridge pins and such.)
I don't know how large the available chunks are, but John Mickelson, the Fossil Ivory King, probably knows: http://www.fossilivory.com/
(Maybe the original ivory cracked before fossilizing, and all that's left are pieces large enough for bridge pins and such.)
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I can vouch for that-- I had the pleasure of trying a VonHuene ivory recorder some years ago at their shop, and it was a thing of rare beauty.Loren wrote:Legal Ivory (from both Mammoths and Elephants) is available in sufficient qantities to make whistles from, it's just extremely expensive and hard to come by. We make (elephant) Ivory instruments now and then, and they do sound excellent, although I wouldn't say the sound is "better" than wood.
Loren