Could anybody explain to me what tack or blue tack is(can’t find it in a dictionary in this meaning), and what you do with it to tweak a generation whistle? I’d like to experiment on “unchiffing”.
Cheers
Sweetone, it doesn’t stop chiff, it stops the screech that many Generations, etc, have as they come from the factory. Blue tack, or sticky tack, is available in a small packet in stationery stores in the glue section. You take the fipple off the whistle, then pack the sticky tack into the cavity right under the windway, before the air gets to the window.
Or even make a little rod of blue/white/sticky/etc-tack by rolling it yer fingers.
Drop it down the whistle, and #carefully#
pack it in place with a thin blade/screwdriver/craft tool being #careful#
not to damage the blade of the whistle.
Pack in enough so that the tack (what ever colour) is level with the end of the windway
i.e. where the air enters the window.
Add/subtract very small pieces to adjust the screech/noise/tone to acceptableness (made up word:-)).
This method saves taking the fipple off the tube, and the attendant worries about cracking when replacing it.
HTH
SDee also this recent thread http://chiffboard.mati.ca/viewtopic.php?topic=6749&forum=1&7
There’s a white version of the same product here in Belgium, its sticky putty used for sticking posters to the wall. You’ll get it in any office supply shop or the stationery department of a supermarket
Cheers people
There is nothing wrong with the whistle. The chiff is caused by low velocity air molecules escaping from the nostrils, transecting the high velocity air molecules, split across the labium. The temperature differential further exasperates the problem by forming water molecules. This is clearly shown in the formula -
The professional solution is to simply put the sticky tack in your nostrils. Problem solved.
Dear dude,
I’v already got a set of fipples in there!
On 2002-10-16 13:40, TubeDude wrote:
There is nothing wrong with the whistle. The chiff is caused by low velocity air molecules escaping from the nostrils, transecting the high velocity air molecules, split across the labium. The temperature differential further exasperates the problem by forming water molecules. This is clearly shown in the formula -
The professional solution is to simply put the sticky tack in your nostrils. Problem solved.
Dude, you forgot to carry the one.