Has anyone experimented with a reed and low whistle by putting them together?
I was looking at my xaphoon, and thinking to myself
“Self -what if you put the reed onto a whistle tube?”
Fortunately “Self” was able to guess that somebody at a forum near here has maybe done something similar already.
The main question is… would the calculations for the note be from the tip of the reed or the tip of the windway, or where the reed is gripped by the lips?
Anyone know please?
You might be interested in a reed pipe. I own one which I can’t play but the fingering is straightforward. You don’t put you lips on the reed but you put the whole end with the reed in your mouth. It’s in the high whistle range, not low. The book Making and Playing Musical Instruments has instructions for making a simple one. It’s by Botermans, Dewit and Boddefroy and was published in the US by Univeristy of Washington Press.
Steve
See http://chiffboard.mati.ca/viewtopic.php?p=133150#133150 for inspiration.
I have to say, when I was glancing over the topics, I read this topic title as “SEXY whistle hybrid” and I thought, Wow, what’s THAT?
Ooops!
Dear Fool 
A close “Rule of Thumb” for designing and making a clarinet style woodwind is that the bore diameter should be around 1/45th of the length or smaller. Most whistles are made with a bore diameter of 1/26-30. This means that a whistle body’s diameter is a little too large for a practical conversion. You may be able to get 3 good notes but these would be unpredictable in pitch and the second register would be “God’s Kitchen”(unknown). Some Xaphoons are only capable of using the first register, like their brother the Chalmeau and can have slightly larger diameter bores than a clarinet, but these would still be too narrow(Acousticly) compared to a whistle.
Thanks for the advice/info.
It led to investigating shawms ‘n’ things.
You think Overtons are high back pressure instruments!
So, spare reed in hand, off to me shed to make a mess, and pretend to try to make a single (sax) reed, whistle type holed tube in pvc, that doesn’t scare the wildlife…
Later
Look forward to the sound clips 
My Xaphoon arrives tomorrow, although I’ll not get much time to try it as we’re off to the Royal Welsh for five days.
My UK supplier has never heard of one that only plays a single octave, but I asked for the one that sounded best just in case 
Trisha
www.geocities.com/tpe123/folkurban/clarinet has an easymake clarinet in PVC pipe. Probably useful for mouthpiece, but you’ll have to figure the holes for whistle as it gives a scale plus three for clarinet. Perhaps the wise could advise?
He also has a peculiar looking PVC sax in three bores, elsewhere there’s a two piece. Only useful comment being that only one note will overblow, thus really limited to one octave.
It would be good to have the time…off to check the llamas haven’t gone down with heatstroke - they were sunbathing today and it was 33 in the shade :roll:
Trisha
www.geocities.com/tpe123/folkurban/clarinet has an easymake clarinet in PVC pipe. Probably useful for mouthpiece, but you’ll have to figure the holes for whistle as it gives a scale plus three for clarinet. Perhaps the wise could advise?
He also has a peculiar looking PVC sax in three bores, elsewhere there’s a two piece. Only useful comment being that only one note will overblow, thus really limited to one octave.
It would be good to have the time…off to check the llamas haven’t gone down with heatstroke - they were sunbathing today and it was 33 in the shade :roll:
Trisha
If only I had read Trisha’s post an hour ago 
I just drew around a reed on a piece of pvc pipe,
cut the hole/windway, and then realised the hole
would get bigger/wider when angled.
Fool by name - fool by nature
Thanks.
ps Likewise with the temperature in my garden.
Some friends up on the mountain came to visit at 4pm,
and said it was cooler at my home, which is 800 feet
lower down the mountain than theirs.
Foole
I believe Daniel Bingamon has plans for a PVC sax at his website(?) At least he used too. You may need to check the archives at http://www.mimf.com/