Origin of the word 'tonebody'

Whistle
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Back in 2-Feb-2002 I had a post here on C&F using the word tonebody.
My earliest website reference on archive.org references it on 2-May-1999.
http://web.archive.org/web/19990502130918/http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/kadima/jubilee.htm

The word refers to the bottom half of a two-piece whistle:
a. Mouthpiece (aka fipple, cap, top)
b. Tonebody (aka Shaft, barrel, cylinder, bottom, thing with six holes)

I don’t remember where I got it from.
I know that my “Anatomy of the Tinwhistle” diagram has gotten around a lot on the internet (I have no problem with that either).

Did I get “tonebody” from the whistle community back then or did I make it up? I’m not sure, after all that was about 17 years ago.
At the time, someone at my work place was making throttle bodies and I think I may coined word tonebody after the liking of the word because it sounded cool and it was described the component very well.
Or maybe someone else used it before then. Anyway, I’m curious to hear of any comments on my musing.

Google books has a reference to a tonebody in a Psychological Bulletin (of all things) dated 1916 but I believe term is used for a different purpose of referring to the “body” of the “tone”. The word “whistle” is mentioned in that same book.

Looking around the internet the term today is used in a lot of places.

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I can`t say I’ve ever heard anyone use this term. What does tonebody convey that isn’t already covered by the word body?

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Jerry Freeman uses it (as well as toneholes). But, yes, it’s meaningless when body or tube is quite enough and the tone comes largely from the head. I’d never use it.

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I think ‘tonebody’ is like ‘price point’: more words used to convey what one word does equally well.

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“Tuna fish” would be another example. It’s called “pleonasm”, which is a subcategory (I mean, seriously?) of tautology. I know, I know. You’ll thank me later.

What a word, pleonasm. It sounds like blowing a gasket. “Doctor, the patient is having a pleonasm.”

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I have no idea how one would tune a fish.

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According to its scales, of course.

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Bravo!

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