Slide whistle

[MTGuru]

@MTGuru

Added: I crossed posts with IB. Now I’ve got to take a look.

Is it this thing? … The PH-20 “Pipe Humming” harmonica? And does that endpiece actually move, or is it just an open tube?

http://www.suzukimusic.co.uk/harmonicas/diatonic.htm

[dwest]

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Added: I crossed posts with IB. Now I’ve got to take a look.

Is it this thing? … The PH-20 “Pipe Humming” harmonica? And does that endpiece actually move, or is it just an open tube?

http://www.suzukimusic.co.uk/harmonicas/diatonic.htm

Just tubular coverplates with one open end. Wah wah.

[I.D.10-t]

@MTGuru

Is it this thing? … The PH-20 “Pipe Humming” harmonica? And does that endpiece actually move, or is it just an open tube?

Just an open tube.
Suzuki Promaster, Hammond & Pipe Humming third part of the video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCchREHrEck

And then there is a Suzuki SCT-128 Tremolo Chromatic Harmonica
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsJ0ZRye-HM&feature=related

[MTGuru]

Thanks, ID (and dwest)!

[I.D.10-t]

I guess at one time the slide saxophone was produced.

and a youtube video

[Sandy_McLeod]

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Added: I crossed posts with IB. Now I’ve got to take a look.

Is it this thing? … The PH-20 “Pipe Humming” harmonica? And does that endpiece actually move, or is it just an open tube?

http://www.suzukimusic.co.uk/harmonicas/diatonic.htm

That’s the one I was speaking of.

Sandy

[I.D.10-t]

@fyffer

Unlike a traditional whistle, because this is a tube only open on one end (go ahead, I dare you - argue why a pennywhistle is closed on one end) , the slide whistle has an odd harmonic series, meaning that overblowing should produce not the next octave, but an octave plus a fifth (similar to the clarinet), and the next overtone would be two octaves plus a third. Any possibilities here? Heck, if trombone players can do it …

Have you tried bugle calls to start with? It should have a minimum number of slide positions (I would think two, fully open and half in). From there you could try playing the same tune a note higher and get a feel for the slide positions.