I was looking for a whistle bag, but I found a bag whistle

Whistle
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I think this is exceedingly cool!
http://www.kingsmills.us/jubilee/store/bagwhistle.htm

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I DO note that there are no sound clips available AND that the posting date is April 1st - hmmmm…

Pat

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run away…

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No, the bagwhistle’s been around for almost a decade.

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It’s easy to make- just make a coupla stocks from bits of wood, stick’em into a bag, and stick some off-the-shelf whistles into them. You got a bagwhistle.
It’s not easy to play. With regular bagpipes the pressure does matter, but it is within limits. With the bagwhistle it is within one limit. It’s not impossible, but it’s much easier to make a double whistle, and play it like that. (a whistle and a drone, blown together. Balkan cultures have a number of these, and some others.)

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It’s easy to make- just make a coupla stocks from bits of wood, stick’em into a bag, and stick some off-the-shelf whistles into them. You got a bagwhistle.
It’s > not > easy to play. >

Seconding this. I made a bagwhistle when I was 14, with a plastic grocery sack, a recorder, and a drinking straw, with a lot of duct-tape. It worked just fine, but it was really, really tricky to keep the pressure even enough to not burble or shriek.

It’s not impossible, but it’s much easier to make a double whistle, and play it like that. (a whistle and a drone, blown together. Balkan cultures have a number of these, and some others.)

Also seconding this. About a year later I got a Bulgarian dvoyanka; pennywhistle fingering on the right, on the left just an optional hole to raise from major to minor drone. I rather wished someone would invent an aftermarket joined fipples/yoke to put two Generation bodies into…