A rectangular tin whistle!!! Who knew?
http://www.alibaba.com/product-gs/432927153/Rectangular_Shaped_Irish_Tin_Whistle.html
it’s of chinese make so it is not worth attention anyway:)
Maybe the viking is attempting to distract to pillage the market.
I always thought that the Viking method of distraction was a decapition by battle ax.
Anyways, I agree with V-of-K on this.
Uh, w-t-f? I’ve seen bad examples of engrish, but that’s not even a whistle… How’d they screw that one up?
I was going to try making a rectangular whistle just out of curiosity.
No one has given it a go? Would the acoustics even work?
Greg
Apparently it does work;
http://www.bingamon.com/jubilee/pagesmith/25
He has a youtube clip too.
See whistles? See recorders…
http://www.vonhuene.com/Default.aspx?tabid=135
http://www.contrabass.com/pages/big-recorders.html
http://www.dolmetsch.com/millennium.htm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAKlOvux06A
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcUu8Ws7rrM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TocMtNJg9HM
(YouTube links are all Paetzolds of increasing size!)
I have a whistle in my collection, given to me by the maker in 1979, formed from sheet aluminum, with a rectangular cross section and tapered like a Clarke original. It has a red plastic plug and is fairly in tune and on the quiet side. He heard me playing a Generation in my car while parked on a street in San Francisco. He was going to sell them, but I never heard anymore about them. My camera is broken, but will post a photo when I get a new one.
I have made Square Whistle (I’m the maker of the one called the Town Square (yes, the name is a pun). It plays just as well was any round whistles.
After having some C&F people here try it out we did find that most had trouble finding the toneholes when not looking. Somehow, round bodies makes it easier to find the holes.
When properly voiced, they have some decent volume - like an organ pipe.