Beautiful whistle! Do you have any recommended websites to calculate the hole positions for a low D tin whistle? I made a PVC low D the other day and the hole positions are too big of a stretch. :( Thanks!
Sorry to say that currently I don't know any websites for that. I haven't used them for at least 8 years. At this point of flute making I only use my previously made flutes/whistles as referense. However I can say that with low whistles some fingerhole positions are challenging to have within a good reach no matter what. Compromises with the hole size vs positions are inevidable.
Hmm I suppose there are more than just one scale for arabic melodies. I should study the topic. What scale would it be exactly? The flute in this particular piece is a variant of a shakuhachi flute.
@@ΝΕΚΤΑΡΙΑΜΑΣΤΟΡΙΚΟΥ No I didn't mean which key but scale. See, there's so many scales for arabic music like locrian, diminished, maqam and the list goes on (I don't even know how many there are). But in this piece I played a flute tuned to a major scale. Actually all of my flutes are either major or minor scale tuned.
Future and the past are strongly present when combining futuristic and cinematic ambient music with something that has long traditions like shakuhachi :)
I loved your video, thank you! Are you able now to make an Alto low F whistle that stays in tune and doesnt go flat in the upper octave. And if so...do you sell your whistles. I have been trying to find a low F whistle. I don't know why, it is a great key andwould be great to have. I live in Ireland and play whistle in the music ministry at church. Our worship sounds very Irish indeed. We run into all kinds of songs in different keys and I like to have all the whistle I need. My hubby is on violin. But I have found that the only whistle maker I have found so far is a outrageously expensive, because they are one of high end whistle makers. If you solved the high octave going flat issue, do sell your whistles? If so how much would you ask for a Alto F ? Accept for high Eb, F and G, all my whistles are tuneable aluminium whistles and one lovely alto A brass, aswell as low A aluminium, and low G, are made by Tony Dixon. I cannot find any Alto F by him. I don't have any plastic whistles at all and your F sounded gorgeous! How much would it cost to have one of your Ato F whistles?? And where are you? Are you located. Are you in Europe? God bless you! So sorry for the long message!😊✝️🕊☘
I haven't been making whistles for a while but I feel I could make a few now. I know the trick to keep the tuning in balanced between octaves. I can make alumium, copper and pvc whistles. Yes I'm located in Europe. Send me an email: otsflutes@gmail.com Refer to this comment or your youtube account so I know it's you. (I sometimes get a lot of messages) Let's talk about details there.
@@osflutes5141 Thank you so much! It won't be right away but, I will in a month or so. Are you sure you could keep the tuning in balance? The tuning and clarity are very important. And the way you make them, there's no way you can tune them. I don't own any PVC, as I said, I've only tuneable aluminium and a beautiful sounding brass low A. Have you ever made brass whistles? I did love the way your PVC sounded. I might give it a try! God bless you!✝️🕊🙏🏻💐
@@ChildOfKingJesus57 I've never made brass whistles. I don't have brass pipes available currently. The tuning shouldn't be a proplem. Biggest challenges are always between having a lovely tone and loudness. If it's louder the tone in my opinion is not quite as good as it is with softer volume whistles. However this is mainly a challenge with low whistles. Alto like F doesn't suffer from that so much. Without a good lathe it's hard to make a good tuning slide. With non-tunable whistle the question is do you want it to play in tune with maximum blow? Some whistles can be blown over about 5-10 cents. 15 cent note is the absolute limit for discordance. I'll take a look at what I can do with the tuning slide.
I sometimes think about what it would have been like if the Mongoloids didn't exist and the Tocharians invaded Northeast Asia. They would have created a unique civilization based on Indo-European culture... Oh, I really want to see that timeline. Northeast Asia of the tocharians............ ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-SAtkH8TPtyI.htmlsi=tf2Lu2LGT1lQfzmG ru-vid.coms3IFZONObuE?si=umruyzoajqTeW3Em ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-RZehXukhxzY.htmlsi=IeR8l_QC7NgLLh6d Indo-Europeans survived in Asia
To Willian Lima: I can see your comment only in notifications and couldn't answer directly so here... The shakuhachi flutes may vary a bit from one another when it comes to angle of blowing end. Some are cut almost straight and some have steeper angle. I've seen quite extreme cuts. If we concider straigth end as 90 degrees, mine are usually around 80 degrees. This is my preference.
Hi Olli, Super nice sound and amazing playing 👌🙏 It's always nice to hear from you. Since our last contact, I think you've built a few new flutes, which I don't think are on the list you sent me? Greetings from Germany
I make low D Irish whistles out of one inch copper plumbing pipe. They're a little on the heavy side, but still easy to handle. Obviously, construction of the fipple is significantly more complex, but I've learned to make fipples that produce good clean sound, make a whistle that's easy to play, and have a nice clean look. It took a LOT of experimentation before I came up with a method that resulted in a proper fipple, but it was worth it. I know a one inch bore sounds huge, but the whistles I've built have a beautiful, rich sound. I started making them long before the days of RU-vid, and so pretty much had to learn by doing. Anyway, this was an interesting video -- thanks for making and posting it.
Hats off for showing your whole process. Personally, I prefer to have the fipple block movable, since it allows some degree of volume and tone control, which is especially nice for a practice whistle. Also I know the alternate fingering would drive me crazy… To avoid this, I tend to shape the uppermost finger hole as small as I can afford to. Possibly this is a dubious decision on my part, as my understanding is hole position is important in terms of hitting the non vibrating part of the standing wave in the second octave… but, it seems fine to my ears😅 But, anyway, your whistle sounds great and seems very robust!
Actually, looking at my Dixon flute and generation whistle, the top holes are nowhere near where the standing wave node would be, I’m probably thinking of a different instrument😂😂, the whole sizes are also very different proportions in each case.😅 but I still seem to have more success with smaller topmost tone holes
Pros and cons of my fipple/finger hole design is that: yes it sounds pretty fine throughout the range and the playabiluty is good but I've sacrificed a lot of back pressure. It sounds very balanced but the higher octave is a bit flat unless I blow harder than I'd like to. However, I've recently corrected these defects.
After seeing your video, this is the only way I make my flutes now. I am using this style mouthpiece to make a Pan Flute. Technically speaking...a Pan Whistle. I like to make the plug too long to allow sound hole adjustment and then cut it to shape. Michael
That's creative! I've been making only rim-blown flutes for a long time (particularly shakuhachi) but recently huge yearn to make whistles again struck me.
My Pan "Whistle" has 16 notes starting with a low C. I'll add , at least, three more notes to it. It's quite large. I use coconut oil on it to aid in movement over a twenty inch width. This really allows me to play much faster. It was very time consuming to make, but very much fun to play. I love playing "El Condor Pasa" on it. Michael
What a very nice sounding whistle / flute , I made one some time ago but it was a dud no good ,I think my fipple was my let down and some understanding on length and hole sizes etc, also I think the pipe I was using may have been to thick , a whole bunch of things let me down to my lack of knowledge , I’ll try again , your flute was awesome .
If only I have time I'll make another video about whistle making. I've been making shakuhachi and other rim-blown flutes now for a quite long time. Now that I've had a lathe available for use I've gotten exited about making also whisltes.
@@osflutes5141 … Thank you so much , if time permitting you I would definitely love to see your video making the whistle , goodness knows we who are interested in whistles etc could do with some help , thank you 🙏
thanks, I make Native American style flutes but I want to become consistent in voicing these other type of fipple so many other flutes use, that doesn't have a removable thing or tend to "wet out" as much. You provide a type that is not just the same as so many others, thanks. I think you could also defend yourself with this one if you get a homicidal critic.
