Anyone know anything about these whistles?
Schoha whistles
Judging by the size and spacing of the tone holes I’d imagine it’s about as in tune as a snake charmer’s whistle.
Don’t knock other cultures’ tunings. If I had some nice whistles tuned to other scales, I could do things like play Hava Nagela up to tempo! That thing is quite likely not tuned to anything resembling anyone’s musical scale.
Rod
Sounds like you need one of these!
http://www.tinwhistles.us/whisethnic.htm
They are VERY cool and great fun for just experimenting on as well as playing Klezmer tunes like Hava Nagila. I love playing IRTRAD on this whistle-- it automatically comes out sounding very exotic and middle eastern. Reasonably priced too.
I’ve seen those and wanted them, but it would be fun the have whistles for many other tunings, with whistle sets of the keys within those tunings. I seem to have a bad case of incipient ethnomusicological WhOA!
I have ideas for whistles with infinitely variable tuning, of which the slide whistle is but one example, that could have “tuning charts” placed on them to show where the note positions are physically on the instrument from scale to scale, but that is a long term project. One problem with using something like a slide whistle to play ethnic music is the sometimes rather humorous sound of the instrument as it slides from note to note. I could get accused of mocking the very music I am simply trying to emulate!
Rod