Thought ya’ll would like to see this…
http://members.aol.com/woinem1/index/windmill.htm
Incite any “Lawn-Art” Ideas?
Thomas Hastay, Thanks a lot for further complicating my life with obsessive ideas!
Mack
C’mon, Mack… you know you want to try it… Just make one… what can it hurt?..
I know - I know… “Get thee behind me…” 
Not Hastay, nor Olson, nor Dutch heritage will sway me to tilt at windmills!
I wonder though, how I can make my bottle collection practical…
That was really interesting. I listened to the sound clip. I don’t know if I would like hearing that sound all day. I like the idea that the miller could tell what was happening by the sound----but the sounds themselves seemed sort of spooky and clashing and train whistle like sometimes. I wonder how loud it is?
Edited to say that I think what I listened to was a sound clip of a bamboo sounding device which may be used on these windmills, but it wasn’t clear how. It said that the millers paid great attention to the overall sound and that it was important that it was pleasant. So I think I did not hear one of the actual windmills.
I attended a lecture on “outsider art” in college. One “artist” that was interviewed
had built his house out of concrete and empty glass bottles. He’d stack the bottles,
using the concrete as mortar, with the bottle openings on the outside of the house.
This way, when the wind blew, a high-pitched whine would permeate his dreams…
Why anyone would desire this, and how he never hit enough resonant frequencies
to crack the walls, I’ll never know…
You’re right that the sound clip of the aeolian](http://members.aol.com/woinem1/index/bamborgl.htm%22%3Eaeolian) organ on that site was really haunting!
It looks like the author couldn’t find any recordings of the Puertuguese windmills
(he asks people to send him some at the bottom of the page). I guess that
clip was the closest thing to the concept he could find. I’d imagine the sounding
devices on the windmills would have a very different tone, since they are
a very different shape. Probably much more pleasing to western ears than
the aeolian organ, which is used in Asia.
Good, I’m glad I got the idea right about the windmills. It is too late tonight for me to investigate the website you posted but it looks very interesting and I’ll take a look at it tomorrow. I am just stunned by the number of instruments there are in the world and how few of them I have heard of! I may not be making much headway on the whistle (not the forum’s fault!), but I’m learning a lot of other things here.
I think O’Riordan should send me 65 whistles, and I will try tying them to a windmill. If I don’t like the sound I promise to take them down… heh heh heh
Crazy.
I am sorry, Mack, for transmitting this disease (Radically Advanced WhOA or Rad-WhOA) I just didn’t want to suffer alone! I have had nightmares of pinwheel aeolian pipes of different pitch, spinning in front of a wind vane/windway playing tune sets. Each mini-windmill could have WD’s (whistling discs) for different moods. Crazy huh!!! 
Here is another strain of my disease called a “Pigeon Whistle”. These are tied to the base of a racing Pigeon’s tail to scare hawks away, but would be a great substitute for wind chimes
http://www.pigeon-china.com/wh1.htm
A similar version of this is called a “Silbador” in Peru. I have only read about this “storm warning”, placed in coastal trees, in rare publications.
Have any of you found obscure whistle examples? Kite whistles, etc?
Now you’ve really gone too far!
Mack
PS But keep them coming…
What? You don’t already have 65 spare whistles to attach to your windmill? I’m not sure whether this windmill idea will help cure WhOA by providing a useful (?) outlet for all those extra whistles or aggrevate the condition by providing an excuse to get more.
New thread topic: What tunes should the whistling windmill play? What ornamentation should be used in said tunes?