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by c.michael payne
Mon May 05, 2014 6:35 am
Forum: Wind, Percussion, and Miscellaneous and Experimental Instruments
Topic: square tin whistle finger holes
Replies: 5
Views: 11371

Re: square tin whistle finger holes

There's a lot of information in the library section. Look in "winds". Under flutes,whistles, etc., there is an article on Configuring a PVC Irish whistle to get the upper register correct , and a lot of other good stuff. There was more discussion on whistles in the early days of MIMF (the...
by c.michael payne
Thu May 01, 2014 1:42 pm
Forum: Wind, Percussion, and Miscellaneous and Experimental Instruments
Topic: square tin whistle finger holes
Replies: 5
Views: 11371

Re: square tin whistle finger holes

yes, drill bits faster. I'll give it a go on E hole on a sacrificial whistle. Il take measurements of d and e before and after modification.
first ill modify to cuircular top and flat base, then totally square.
by c.michael payne
Tue Apr 29, 2014 6:25 am
Forum: Wind, Percussion, and Miscellaneous and Experimental Instruments
Topic: square tin whistle finger holes
Replies: 5
Views: 11371

square tin whistle finger holes

hi, I'm new on here, first post: :mrgreen: I have built a few pvc tin whistles and noticed, as other have, that it's impossible to tune both high and low octaves evenly; one is always too flat or the other too sharp. After I noticed that the octaves tuning became even further apart when experimentin...

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