Now this is groooovy:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2540287659&category=624
Usually these oddball whistles are kind of interesting to look at but this one that I’d actually like to own…
What does a ceramic whistle sound like?
Anyone ever had experience with something like this?
PC
It probably sounds like a ceramic flute.
With a drone.
I had a porcelain flute just like that, might be same maker. He makes occarinas too, i have one of them. Can’t remember the guy’s name. The flute sounded very nice, it was pitched in F and in tune. Unfortunately, one day it just decided to split in the middle, very clean, with no provocation.
Ahhh…all is clear now! 
This instrument is called a “Sluskinje”(pr. sloo-SKIN-yay) or “Slulkinja”(pr. slool-KIN-yah) and is similar to the Dvojnice double pipe. Your ceramic pipe-n-drone is a western version of this Yugoslavic instrument. Here is a diagram from a Slavic site(use a translator program for content).
http://www.hgu.hr/status/23/starohrv.htm
(pssst. Cranberry. the only thing missing from your avitar is the bolts in her neck and the “big hair” with a white streak. I don’t think there is anything left on her thats real!)
I have two of this maker’s ocarinas…they’re really lovely pieces of art that also make music.
I’ve also had the fortune to play a NAF pitched to D with a drone. It is a lovely sound, but twice as much lung power is necessary.
Quote @ Thomas-Hastay
(pssst. Cranberry. the only thing missing from your avitar is the bolts in her neck and the “big hair” with a white streak. I don’t think there is anything left on her thats real!)
It doesn’t matter if she’s plastic, I love her for her intelligence. She’s a spokesperson for PeTA, too.
You are a collective font of whistle whisdom…I am forever on the quest to find the whistle that stumps the mighty C&F board! 
Thanks for the info, did you see the whissle with the four tubes? Good grief, you must have to be really good to even carry a tune with that thing (and have a set of Pratt & Whitneys for lungs)…boy, it could sound really neat though.
PC
SO,That’s why Tommy married her! 
(sorry Cran.-couldn’t resist-just joking! 
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She was intelligent enough to take the money for ‘Barb wire’
Tyghress said
“Twice as much lung power is necessary”.
I agree Ty. If this instrument were made with a closed tube drone and the voicing window of both tubes was halved, this instrument would play easy and the drone would remain at low pitch when the melody pipe was overblown.(Thomas uploads this thought to aging memory banks)
http://chiffboard.mati.ca/viewtopic.php?t=12373&sid=44bd8fdd5fa5a2fbe48e7e93b126d303
(I’m honored that Thomas agrees)
Well…we’ll see what this critter sounds like…
I’m very fond of the ocarinas I have from this guy, but really didn’t like dealing with him directly. I was pretty irritated that he didn’t let me try out a flute when I saw him at a show…probably would have bought it if I had been able to try it first.
In addition, a potter has contacted me about his whistles, so I may eventually have another raku whistle to compare this against.
And no comment from our #1 poster about acquisition fever please!
“Gonna pick myself up, dust myself off, and start WhOA over again!”
I feel like such an enabler… 
