Had someone who plays the flute try one of my whistles and tell me it had air leaks around two holes … that were really hard to close off with the pads of his fingers. He said he would repad his flute if it happend on it but didn’t know about whistles. Said he heard something about sanding holes but had no idea if it was really something u did or how to do it.
So .. I guess I want to know if that is what u do to get rid of air leaks and … if so … how to go about it.
I personally didn’t notice them since .. I didn’t know what the right tones were any how.
My guess is that the problem isn’t with the whistle, it’s with how your friend was holding it. Any whistle will have “air leaks around the tone holes” if the player is sloppy about covering the holes completely. Unless your whistle has really weird, ultra-large holes, I don’t think you probably have a problem. If there was actually air leaking around your fingers, not only would you probably feel it, it would definitely sound weird…at the least, the note wouldn’t be in tune with the one above or below it, and it would quite possibly squeek or wheeze.
What kind of whistle? It it was a low whistle or an alto (Bb, etc) whistle chances are a flutist wouldn’t immediately get the hang of fingering it because of the different angle of the hands.
