How It's Made

Whistle
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I’m sittin here watching the show and wondered…are there videos out there demonstrating the process of how an Irish whistle is made??

Steve

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I wondered the same thing last time i watched it… :boggle:

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there is a bit of that here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hp-RndJFKz0

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Denny that’s a great set of videos. I’m glad there are subtitles. Thanks much

Steve

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I am not sure if this is what you may have been watching. The recorder, object of scorn here that they are, is a relative of the whistle. They are conceptually similar and can share construction details.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiSW6LPchSc

Or this may amuse you. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hODT_WkTkk

Beyond videos…If you are interested in making whistles, or just want to know how it’s done there are several sources of good information. Daniel Bingamon has written a whistle maker’s anthology.
http://www.bingamon.com/jubilee/pagesmith/6

Glenn Schultz, of Thin Weasel and Water Weasel fame, wrote a fine article for the Woodwind Quarterly in 1996 describing how he made his whistles. Reprints are available here: http://www.musictrader.com/wwqindex.html#8

And of course I should mention our friend Guido Gonzato’s Low Tech whistle website as well.
http://guido.gonzato.googlepages.com/whistle.html

There are other printed resources and of course much is available on the Internet as well.

Feadoggie

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Thanks Feadoggie…Denny’s link was kind of what I was looking for. It was really cool to watch Hammy Hamilton work on his stuff…thanks

steve

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And Hammy’s low whistles are really good too. My Low D is probably the very best low whistle I have and it wasn’t that expensive…

Cheers,
Anders