Not to hijack the thread…
How crisp are ornaments on the Q1, compared to, say, a Generation or a Sindt?
Micah
Whosez? Not me! *
Or is it because the only whistle she-maker would be called witch rather than wiz?
And, now you mention it, how come a wizard (male) is generally considered positive,
when a witch (just the same thing, but female) as negative?
In other terms, why is Baba-Yaga bad and a yogi-baba good?
Why does she fly kitchen appliances from her cabin, when he travels Executive on posh den furniture from his castle?
Ultimately, when you look up in the sky and imagine these countless galaxies, is bloomfield a broomfiend?
Is a C&F thread finally going to stick to its topic? **
- Eventhough I’m not sure who, of Macbeth or his lady, or the witches themselves, is the real culprit… But this has nothing to do with Stacey’s lore… has it?
** hardly if I’m around…
I got the Q1 too, it’s a charmer. Thanks again stacey-pie.
Interestingly enough, one can play the Q1 ala Piccolo thanks to its cunning design. Really, the ‘blade’ of a fipple doesn’t have to be sharp as a razor…after all, the blow-holes of flutes aren’t sharp (far from it on flutes fitted with ‘chimneys’ and lip-plates).
Without wishing to pooh-pooh any suggestion of magic at work in the Q1 (and mine sounds beautiful), I believe the secret is in the dimensions of the windway. Curved, and very narrow, which accelerates the airstream considerably, and which is why you can play the Q1 like a piccolo… from a fluid dynamics point of view, the mouthpiece’s windway is effectively sealed when compared to the vast open path that the rest of the tube provides to the oscillating column of air within…
Just as the block on a Native American Flute guides an accelerated airstream over its “blowhole”, so does the marvellous design of the Q1’s unique fipple, much like a flute-player’s embouchure guides his or her airstream.
Try blowing across the lip of an open bottle of Cragganmore, which is not sharp at all…the nice thing about this experiment is, as the volume of liquid within the bottle decreases, the pitch of the note produced decreases and becomes much mellower in tone…in fact, everything becomes much mellower, though rushing an octave scale on the “Cragganmore Flute” isn’t something I’d recommend.
The magic of the Q1 is in the whole of its creation, in me not so humble opinion, and not the piece-parts thereof (bit like the Cragganmore really!).
Your more than welcome Amariepoo
Love all the guessing as to why and how mostly wrong.
But right now I’m saying now’t 
Great review, Bloo!
Just so.
Take a Bow
I know that BLOO said to get the Q1’s from me 
but please order them from Phil at bigwhistle.com, as he is my main UK dealer Thanks 