Keyed whistle or??????

This is weird…

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=16214&item=2268709645&rd=1

I’ve seen those. I think you can get them at Lark in the Moaning. I forgot what they are called. I believe there were whole consorts of the things at one time is some corner of the world.

I think George Harrison played that in the Yellow Submarine movie!

http://www.instrumantiq.com/images/AVX/AVX-332-martinschalmei.jpg
Bingo!

http://larkinthemorning.com//product.asp_Q_pn_E_HOR011_A_Tyrolian+Many+Belled+Trumpets_E_
if you want one.

also known as
Tyrolian Many Belled Trumpets

Thank you thank you.
Yes.
I know everything.
No more applause, please.
Just throw money.

So, at $75 the one on eBay is a relative bargain. :smiley:


But the real question is, can bunnies vomit or not?

What ordinary bunnies can do is not the point. This particular bunny is extraordinary.

…perhaps, but as extraordinary as this bunny?

“Follow, but follow only if ye be men of valor! For the entrance to this cave is guarded by a creature so fowl, so cruel that no man yet has fought with it and lived. Bones of four fifty men lie strewn about its lair! So, brave knights, if you do doubt your courage, or your strength, come nay further, for death awaits you all . . . with nasty big pointy teeth!”

http://arago4.tn.utwente.nl/stonedead/movies/holy-grail/scene-21.html

Don’t you mean “an ordinary extra?”

I like strange things.

Now how can I add more more whistles to this. Maybe a triangle upper notes on one tube, lower notes on the other and drone in the back?

I’ve seen such a multiple horn in Breisgau (southern Black Forest). It’s a free-reeds instrument.
The one I saw was similar, but with more horns. Instead of the three trumpet-like pistons, it had six or seven, presumably for a diatonic scale.

Remove the horns which serve as volume amplifiers (see Sheng chinese “mouth organs”) and you got the base of the Melodica.

However, the one linked to on eBay seems to be American-made : Martin was a maker of horns. This one would have made sense for fox-hunting… if you can’t get four notes out of a simple horn.

Whether this belongs to music or rather gaming is arguable…

This painting is from Mediaeval Spain, in the book, Cantigas de Santa Maria:

That appears to be a launedas or maybe an argul.

Kind of like this: http://larkinthemorning.com/product.asp?pn=WIN095

Could well be. That was always how it had struck me before, but looking through the Cantigas illuminations, again today, it set me to thinking about this thread on the Tyrolean trumpets.

The poofed cheeks do suggest the “bagless bagpipes” concept, though I suppose the air supply issue would be the same, be they drones, or be they not.

I do agree with you, as droned pipes were well-known in 13th Century Europe, and metal free reeds were not (or, if they were, it would be an important discovery for music historians).