Remember this whistle?
Well, I’ve given it a makeover and will post some more info over the next week or so, so stay tuned, zombie fans!
Ok, so here’s the story…
I’m playing whistle with a group of Asian musicians whose favourite key is F# major. This is chiefly because the harmonium player likes the black notes. So, I needed a whistle in F#, or one in C#. I managed to make a tube to fit a Gen Bb head from some copper plumbing pipe, but then I remembered that I had a spare Sweetone in C that was kindly donated by former C&F board member, Peter Laban (I wonder where he is now?). Could I convert it to C#?
Head removal was achieved relatively easily, using a combination of the baptism by fire and torpedo techniques. Next I cut off a sliver from the fipple end of the tube, tested the pitch and cut off another sliver until the whistle was relatively close to the key of C#. This whistle is slightly unusual in that the B3 hole is lower than current models.
Here’s the results from Flutini:
C#5: +11
D#5: +1
F5: -2
F#5: +1
G#5: +3
A#5: +5
C#6: 0
D#6: -5
It appears that the whistle doesn’t need any significant tweaking of the hole positions.
I wondered if anyone else has tried modifying the pitch of a Sweetone? Making an Eb whistle might be a good project from a D whistle…
p.s. mods - could you rename the thread “Making a cheap C# whistle” or something more descriptive please?
I wondered if anyone else has tried modifying the pitch of a Sweetone
… I’ve “converted” a C Sweetone to a “D + low C”, if that counts … enlarged the “F” hole to F# and drilled a new C# hole at the top … I like it 