Purchasing Fipple heads? Where?

Whistle
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I’m new to making whistles, please tell me who, other than
thewhistleshop.com is selling entry-level fipple mouthpieces
so I don’t have to fight that along with finger hole placements?
Looking for 1/2" and 5/8" heads of course.

Thanks so much! Vast internet searching never turned up
anything for me (wrong word choices, dont know…)

Thanks again,
-B

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This is more an aside, but oddly, my personal favorite fipples are the white ones originally developed for use on slide whistles; http://www.grotro.com/14.jpg. They fit ½ inch tubing, including the clear straight tubing you can sometimes get at pet and aquarium supply stores. The copper tubing in hardware stores will fit them with lots of sanding down and gives a really pleasant, chiffy tone. I have even made recorders with them. I found I can make a whistle as low as Bd, but find novices can only get as low as B, as the tone and pitch get kind of flaky for them down to Bd. I talked to the people at Trophy Music about getting some; http://www.grotro.com/Catalogconstruction.html. They sold them to me for 25 cents a piece, but I had to purchase at least 100. I ordered my 100 fipples (I have dibs on 100 fipples as a song title!) and have been having fun with them, ever since.

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Mack Hoover offers some quite nice mouthpieces you can stick on things. Check out:

mackhooverwhistles.com

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that’s Bb, Rod. :wink:

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http://mackhooverwhistles.com/miscpictures.htm

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Great photo, but where can I get some? Looking for low to mid-grade. Preferably don’t require a bunch of plastic scrapeing, reasonable tone straight from the box… some of these other examples provided above are a bit too expensive for my beginning interests.

Thanks guys,
-B

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So I’m dislexic.

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:wink:

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You can purchase megs from elderly instruments for less than $4 and just toss the tube. elderly.com
Angelo