Do try this at home.
Ok, so, I just found you can play a little ‘trick’ on a whistle, without having to go through the numerous trouble of tweaking. I don’t think I’m the first person who discovered this but I thought it interesting enough to post. I haven’t done it on my Soprano recorder yet but I’m sure it works on whistles if you do follow the instruction. Anyway, the sound produced by this ‘trick’ is really efffective if you’re playing a slow air, or a fusion, jazz etc etc. I first experimented this on Susato Low D.
You’ll hear a note one octave lower than that of the bottom key.
Things to prepare:
- yourself
- any whistle (the lower, the cooler the effect. Give it a first try with Low D)
Things to do:
1)Cover the end of the body completely
2)Cover all holes and prepare to play bottom note.
3)Do not blow into it. Breathe into it.
Otherwise you’ll hear, for example, A instead of D if you’re playing a D whistle.
You could also produce a similar sound by blowing into the windway, not the fipple (as in air whistle?), but you won’t feel the vibration under your finger. in that way.
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[ This Message was edited by: Tak_the_whistler on 2003-02-28 07:16 ]
[ This Message was edited by: Tak_the_whistler on 2003-02-28 07:30 ]
