What is your favorite or most often recurring inconclusive thread topic?
Mine is the use of dupanol and other cleansers for the seemingly endless problem of clogging. Now, I've owned and played over a hundred whistles over the years and never encountered a clogging problem that could not be readily solved by means of the old blow and shake method at most at the end of each whole tune. Is it the whistle or the whistler? Are ye spittin' in the whistle lads? Don't spit in the whistle.
As for aluminum - although research is inconclusive and it seems to depend on the type of aluminum molecules, whether it's sealed, etc., Erle - no ongoing consumption in quantity of any particles is good, so when in doubt cut it out. I'd rather lose the Syn than you and those new brass ones are just dandy. There is a major difference between putting a finished aluminum whistle in your mouth to play and actually working with the stuff to produce and finish the whistles.
I've finally adopted the definition of chiff as that wonderfully rewarding little attck noise when the tone hole seems to pop as you strike it (in accordance pretty much with that organ pipe definition) and have rejected the general airiness definition.
Bloomfield is the Devil.
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I voted other. My favorite is "slow airs"---what they are, how to play them, etc.
"What is chiff" is a good one too. I don't seem to have it at all if it is a popping sound
. Are we supposed to have that?
I thought we had established that Bloomfield was actually Gunther. If amar is Gunther II, I guess that would mean that Bloomfield is amar's father.
"What is chiff" is a good one too. I don't seem to have it at all if it is a popping sound
. Are we supposed to have that? I thought we had established that Bloomfield was actually Gunther. If amar is Gunther II, I guess that would mean that Bloomfield is amar's father.
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- Tell us something.: I play whistles. I sell whistles. This seems just a BIT excessive to the cause. A sentence or two is WAY less than 100 characters.
I voted other. Lead fipples have come up way more than aluminum issues of late and even got a thread locked if I am not mistaken??? For the amount of time that each whistle is played and the nearly countless ways to isolate ones mouth from the lead......
Now, what was the subject again, I can't seem to remember.
Now, what was the subject again, I can't seem to remember.
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