Thanks for everybody’s advice. I have successfully made Irish whistles with a recorder-style mouth piece.
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i like the idea and video. can you make a vid comparing a whistle, recorder, and then your ‘rhristle’ (or ‘recordistle’ if you prefer)
keep up the good work!
Maybe it’s the video, maybe it’s me, but I don’t see how the whistle is recorder-like. Has the block got an upstand like a recorder’s? - this is the only real construction difference between the two types of headjoint I’m aware of.
It looks (and sounds) more like a Susato (recorder or whistle) than anything else I know of.
The concave labium edge is like a quena.