Recorder holes, whistle sound...
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Recorder holes, whistle sound...
I would give my right testical for a chromatic, keyless whistle (not that anyone makes keyed whistles except Jubilee).
Anyone know anything about this?
Anyone know anything about this?
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Re: Recorder holes, whistle sound...
Colin Goldie makes a 10 hole D whistle which plays chromatically except (for some reason) for a Bb. As often as you need that note, you can half hole it, or maybe find a cross fingering.ninjaaron wrote:I would give my right testical for a chromatic, keyless whistle (not that anyone makes keyed whistles except Jubilee).
Anyone know anything about this?
I don't think he takes testicles in payment though...
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I know Skip Healy does it with Flutes, Fifes, and Piccolos. They have the overton on Bigwhistle and I am pretty sure they take check, dredit, or paypal you might have to ask about testicals. XOXXXX first octave and XOXOOO second octave works well for Bb on most whistles but the Overton has a bottom pinkie hole which would probably make the cross fingering for that note a lot easier.
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This is really more a case of window shopping. I'm currently saving money so I can eat durring the school year (a nobel cause, no doubt, to feed the starving scholar), and the testicel won't easily be parted with either. You never know when one will get cancerous and you need a spare. If I didn't have to eat through the coming semester, I would take you up on it. There will be no expensive whistles for me unless this flute buisness of mine takes off (which it seems like it might).JessieK wrote:I have one in Madagascar rosewood that I'd sell for $425.
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Re: Recorder holes, whistle sound...
Susato makes a line of recorders that some feel sound more like whistles than does the typical Baroque recorder. I don't think they accept payment in genitalia, though.ninjaaron wrote:I would give my right testical for a chromatic, keyless whistle (not that anyone makes keyed whistles except Jubilee).
Anyone know anything about this?
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Do NOT tempt da Cat!JessieK wrote:Chris Abell does them, too, but I assume he's happy with his own testicles (he does have two children).
I have one in Madagascar rosewood that I'd sell for $425.
(She who now has a perfectly lovely F, a piccolo that needs learning, and enough D's to satisfy the average music store)
Oh yeah....Sweetheart will make a keyed whistle, but I don't think they do more than two or three keys. G#, F and C I think.
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Re: Recorder holes, whistle sound...
That seems ironic, for some reason.Walden wrote:Susato makes a line of recorders that some feel sound more like whistles than does the typical Baroque recorder.
Perhaps Susato has hit the exact middle ground between the whistle sound and the recorder sound...
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Re: Recorder holes, whistle sound...
Talk about a serious case of Whoa!ninjaaron wrote:I would give my right testical for a chromatic, keyless whistle (not that anyone makes keyed whistles except Jubilee).
Anyone know anything about this?
I think it would be in your best interest if you keep both testicles.
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I figure if you put enough holes on a whistle to give it a fully chromatic, 2-octave range, you can either:
(a) put keys on it to cover the extra holes, and so you've re-invented the 6-key flageolet, or
(b) limit yourself to the number of holes your fingers can reasonably control, design a fingering system around them, then alter the fipple to make the fingering system work...and you've re-invented the recorder.
Part of the charm of the whistle is that it is basically a diatonic instrument with a simple fingering system. As you move away from that, you move away from what makes a whistle a whistle.
That said, I'd love a 6-key flageolet. The idea of being able to play session tunes in any key on one whistle is pretty appealing to me.
All of this is my own $.02 worth, and probably really worth exactly what you paid to read it.
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(a) put keys on it to cover the extra holes, and so you've re-invented the 6-key flageolet, or
(b) limit yourself to the number of holes your fingers can reasonably control, design a fingering system around them, then alter the fipple to make the fingering system work...and you've re-invented the recorder.
Part of the charm of the whistle is that it is basically a diatonic instrument with a simple fingering system. As you move away from that, you move away from what makes a whistle a whistle.
That said, I'd love a 6-key flageolet. The idea of being able to play session tunes in any key on one whistle is pretty appealing to me.
All of this is my own $.02 worth, and probably really worth exactly what you paid to read it.
--James
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Re: Recorder holes, whistle sound...
Okay, in all seriousness: Making such an instrument is simple - it's just a matter of putting more holes in an already working design, problem is, not enough folks want to pay for this, nor do they want to deal with learning the additional fingering (although for some reason that doesn't daunt recorder players) it's as simple as that.ninjaaron wrote:I would give my right testical for a chromatic, keyless whistle (not that anyone makes keyed whistles except Jubilee).
Anyone know anything about this?
Loren