I recently purchased a brass hoover d from a friend. it has great craftsmanship and a beautiful sound. after one song however it seems to clog up(with moisture?) and everything above the second octave d comes out with a terrible squeaking shrill. when i clear it out it seems to go away. apart from not spitting into it as much is there anything i can do in order to play longer without clogging? it’s a great whistle i love it when it’s not clogged. i saw a lot of great reviews re: this whistle and i’m just wondering if it’s me or has anybody else experienced the same problem.
Try searching the archives for clogging or soap. Clogging isn’t all that unusual and there are several things you can do about it.
Tery
Don’t actually search the “archives” use the “[Search]” field on the top right, below REPLY & NEW TOPIC.
Also, read this:
http://www.chiffandfipple.com/moist.htm
/bloomfield
[ This Message was edited by: Bloomfield on 2003-01-24 16:09 ]
One big important thing with a metal whistle…get it warm before you start to play. Blow through it with the window blocked, tuck it under your arm…whatever it takes to bring it to body temperature.
My beloved copper Elfsong clogs like a demon if I play it cold, but once it’s warm it doesn’t clog at all. I warm it with my breath, then play a few arpeggios on it, have to blow it clear once, and that’s it for the rest of the practice session (unless I put it down long enough for it to cool off again…but usually I just tuck the head joint under my arm if I need to take a bathroom break or get another cup of coffee).
Redwolf
Isn`t there a song that goes like that?
With me head
tucked
undernieth me arm
I walk the bloody tower
With me head
tucked
undernieth me arm
in the midnight hour
I know I`ve heard it somewhere. It been in my little pea brain for years…Anyway..
I have been setting my brass Hoover on my oil stove for a couple of minutes before I play. It will still clog somewhere in the first song but then it is fine. These little darlings are easly overblown. It has taken me quite a while to get used to this whistle. What a sweatheart it is. The sope trick works good too.
Tom
In the Tower of London large as life,
The ghost of Anne Bolyne walks nightly
there.
Anne Bolyne was once King Henry’s wife
Until he had the headsman bob her hair.
He did it to her many years ago,
And Anne keeps coming back to tell
him so.
With her head tucked underneath her arm
She walks the bloody tower.
With her head tucked underneath her
arm
At the midnight hour.
The Queen has probably got cold toes,
And through the tower a cold wind blows,
But it’s hard for poor Anne to blow
her nose
With her head tucked underneath her arm.
More or less like that, there’s more,
however…but not tonight. Best
On 2003-01-24 16:50, Redwolf wrote:
My beloved copper Elfsong clogs like a demon if I play it cold, but once it’s warm it doesn’t clog at all. I warm it with my breath, then play a few arpeggios on it, have to blow it clear once, and that’s it for the rest of the practice session (unless I put it down long enough for it to cool off again…but usually I just tuck the head joint under my arm if I need to take a bathroom break or get another cup of coffee).Redwolf
I hope you aren’t blowing coffee into your baby!
My Hoover clogs too. Mack tells you as much when he sells them to you. He recommends the soap trick, which I find to work pretty well. Right after treatment, I can play for a long time before the soap wears away. Under normal practicing regimens (which for me is maybe 20 - 60 minutes a day) I can go three days or so before having to re-soap.
Mack also says he had luck with Rain X car windshield treatment, but I have not tried that yet.
You can email Mack if you like. His address can be found in the Hoover Whistles section on the High End Whistles page.
Thanks Jim, I knew I had heard that song somewhere. I only know the tune to the head part it would be fun to learn the rest of it.
I was emailing Mack a while back talking about his whistles and he wrote back to me saying that the Burke whistles were Caddies and that his were Chevies. But I just have to disagree. I just got a CPVC in D of Macks as a late birthday present and it is no Chevy. And it aint quite or pretty. It kicks A@$. Both my Macks are top dog whistles.
In My Humble Opinion That Is
Tom
On 2003-01-24 20:45, spittin_in_the_wind wrote:
On 2003-01-24 16:50, Redwolf wrote:
My beloved copper Elfsong clogs like a demon if I play it cold, but once it’s warm it doesn’t clog at all. I warm it with my breath, then play a few arpeggios on it, have to blow it clear once, and that’s it for the rest of the practice session (unless I put it down long enough for it to cool off again…but usually I just tuck the head joint under my arm if I need to take a bathroom break or get another cup of coffee).Redwolf
I hope you aren’t blowing coffee into your baby!
Nah…but I’m rarely seen without a cup of coffee by my elbow (native Washingtonian, you know…we have caffeine in our veins instead of hemoglobin).
Redwolf
Ahhhh… Tastes so smooth after a nice rumble!
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On 2003-01-24 17:51, Blackbeer wrote:
Isn`t there a song that goes like that?
With me head
tucked
undernieth me arm
I walk the bloody tower
With me head
tucked
undernieth me arm
in the midnight hour
It’s an old song about Anne Boleyn wife of Henry the 8th. She is reputed to have haunted the Bloody Tower in the Tower of London. Yeah ok so she hasn’t been seen since 1933 not long before the song was written. Can’t blame the woman for hiding after that song can you? 