This is a fantastic video; just a kind, quaint little man with a great hat and of ambiguous age showing us how to make a whistle. Wholesome and pure, I love it. 10/10.
Excellent video! I was trying to make a willow whistle for my son today (like we did as kids) and had forgotten how... This video was perfect and so easy to follow! Thank you!
My dad used to do this for all us kids, and now that I'm a dad, i wanted to see it again. Thanks for this ...nice to have a refresher video. Hopefully my kids will get a kick out of this like we did as kids. He used to use Poplar which is common here in Canada.
Dang! It whistles! That's a whistle all right! Well done! GREAT sap tube-crush/bark-spin manuever! I've enever seen that done before! I really enjoyed watching you make that whistle! Way cool!
I first had someone show me how to do this in the mid 1970s. He learnt how to do it as a kid in the 1930s, so it's been around for a long time. After a day or two, the whistle 'dries' out and will no longer work, so you have to make a new one! Thanks for uploading and reminding me how it was done. Will give it go.
It also helps to separate the bark from the stem by popping the wood into your mouth and soaking with saliva - keeps the bark soft and flexible - did this method 70 years ago
Ha Ha. For many years I made walking sticks to sell at country shows and craft fairs. Using up the offcuts of the hazel stick I thought I'd make a whistle, drilled a hole and cut the opening on several bits of stick, a very tedious task. looking down at the basket full of whistles I thought they are not smiling at me but bloody laughing. So I trimmed off the bark around the mouth piece and burnt in two eyes with a soldering iron, then coloured in the whistle cut with a red magic maker, drilled a hole in the base for a string and, Laughing Loggies were born😃😃😃
Very cool. Never seen this before. Seems like this little whistle would be good for a day or to because of the bark frying out and deforming or splitting. Still, very ingenious.
What a cute and clever trick. The older and simpler ways of doing things are almost forgotten. If technology or the economy ever crashes few will know simple things like this to get by.
just get a piece in the shown size from any local wood that grows very straight. and ist must not be toxic :). Then just try if the "bark-trick" works (use a wood that is pretty rich of water)
