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If you mean a Clarke Sweetone, you're going to have a hard time finding any whistle with a second octave that can be played more quietly than that. Clarke originals have slightly more piercing second octaves, but even they are tame in comparison to most more expensive whistles. Perhaps the trouble i...

That's a Mac Nic whistle in A.

https://www.tinwhistle.de/tin-whistles/ ... istles.php
https://forums.chiffandfipple.com/viewtopic.php?t=50240

bigsciota wrote: ↑Sun Apr 21, 2024 10:31 am The one you’re thinking of is a Jon Swayne whistle. Definitely a similar look, but no relation AFAIK.

Ah, that's right! Easy to get those mixed up.

I know someone who plays at one of the sessions I go to who I THINK plays one of those...at least, it looks exactly like that (or very close, at any rate). Made of rosewood, I think. She let me play it once and I was impressed with its volume. It's rather loud for a wooden whistle. Lovely tone, too....

I assume you mean slightly covering the near end of the window as that has the effect you describe. You could achieve that by having the windway move (or perhaps just the top of it), but you could also couple that mechanically to the wedge to move it a lesser amount in the same direction as well in...

I was idly reading random old discussions on here about kwela-style whistle, when I came across a thread from a few years ago pointing out that some kwela players play with their lips partially covering the fipple to increase the volume of the first octave. Curious to see if this worked, I tried it ...

To play the GT Session whistle roughly in tune required you to blow basically as hard as you could for the second octave and barely at all in the first octave. It wasn't good for sessions because the volume was too inconsistent. You hit upon the exact issue. Each maker has to choose where to put th...

I used to own one. It was probably my least favorite whistle of all time. I got it replaced. I now own a standard McManus, which is one of my favorites, if not my favorite. It's honestly hard to believe the same person made both whistles. Before elaborating, let me say that I have deep respect for R...

Update: I tested this again, but I turned off all audio enhancements I could find in Windows 11 settings, and I used my highest quality microphone. What I found is that on my Goldie whistle, the second octave can be played in tune with some notes being significantly LESS than twice the volume of the...

...without sacrificing any volume in the first octave. Whistles have the second octave that are 2-3 times louder than first. If you think I’m wrong, take a microphone and an oscilloscope - you’ll see for yourself. ;-) Or record on a recorder with compression turned off and publish the recording her...

valves work much better on brass than they would on other instruments, because brass is designed to easily play a full harmonic series starting on the second harmonic, unlike most other instruments (due to a variety of factors). Not as common as the Boeham flutes, but the tabor pipe, txistu, willow...

Oops. I should have said "reedless aerophone." If you insist using the term, read description of 'aerophone' again and apply correctly. :sleep: I am applying it correctly. The flute family consists of reedless aerophones. Capped reed instruments, double reed instruments, and brass instrum...

A constant problem I run into trying to play my Susato Kildare with other people is the inconsistent pitch/volume between the octaves. The second octave is naturally much louder than the first octave (which is true of all whistles, I suppose). I try to underblow the second octave to reduce the volu...

https://collectionapi.metmuseum.org/api/collection/v1/iiif/504684/1026600/main-image I think there are two reasons that brass instruments have valves, while other instruments (particularly aerophones) do not. .. aerophone, any of a class of musical instruments in which a vibrating mass of air produ...

Reading up on the history of natural horns some included holes at certain points to bring the pitch in tune. For awhile it seems keyed Bugles were a thing. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyed_bugle On the other hand, reed instruments also seem to be primarily keyed with the rare outliers so I gue...