I’m not a professional tin whistle maker, but I make tin whistles
I have a question. I would to perfect my whistles, and I make that with 5/8, 3/4 and 1/2 aluminium pipes, pipe cutting, cutter, sandpaper, etc…
What I need to perfect my whistles? Any Tin whistle maker there?
Welcome to C&F. Pardon my English, my Spanish is terrible. That’s a very handsome aluminum whistle you have there.
Yes, there are quite a few whistle makers posting here, including myself. I would suggest that you do a search on “whistle makeing” or “whistle building”. That should retrieve a lot of posts on the topic. You might just browse through the last few months of posts too. There have been a number of new whistle makers asking questions here lately. They will surely post to say hello. It is good to have another maker join the fraternity.
All sorts of methods and materials are used by the makers hanging out here. The tools you have described are the type most of us first used. I have gone on to acquire a lot of machinery to make whistles, such as lathes, drill press, buffers, grinders and so on. Enjoy!
If you want to perfect it you first have to decide what’s wrong with it.
Then you have to realize that there is no such thing as a perfect whistle and decide which part of perfect you are seeking.
Looking at a whistle or listening to a sound clip is not going to allow anyone to decide its level of perfection. edit - by this I mean one has to also play it as well.
I notice right away that the depth of the voicing window is a little shallow. This makes the labium ramp short. If you can use thicker material for the whistle head joint it would improve intonation. I also suggest thinner material for the whistle body. This will correct flatter pitch in the upper registers. Under the higher pressure of the upper registers, the air column forces itself up into deep tone holes and flattens pitch (more cubic volume used).
Thin Brass/Bronze tubing for the body can be found in most craft outlets and thicker tubing can be found in plummers supply outlets. If you want “Prefection” I suggest using a Lathe for tapered wood and metal designs. Tapered “Shell Augers” and a steady rest are used to make wood designs while “Metal Spinning” techniques are used to form tapered metalic instrument designs.