ya always gotta go too far, don’t ya 
Heh heh, it could be worth having one of these. You take it to the session and swap heads for those tunes that don’t sit well on the flute, playing along enthusiastically, fans all a-whirr. It’ll be a great novelty at first, but pretty soon the fiddlers will tire of it, and maybe start avoiding those tunes …
(We play both kinds of music here, East and West Clare…)
Terry
Wish I had known you back around the 3rd week of August 2004, when your interest was at its peak. Man, the good times I missed.
mmmh, what I dislike in the “Pneumo-Pro-device-kid’sToy” is that it cannot help in understanding
about how you also blow on left and on right, and how is your blow while playing (and not just while moving fans)… (so imho it’s not just up,err,down)
on my thread [u]HERE[/u] Denny (thank you Denny) give us those (horror?) usefull videos “in” throat [u]HERE[/u] that let us immagine more about air column on inside us…
(So, Terry you may let someone repeat this experiment while adding some x-ray’s sensitive sostances in the air 
..)
just yesterday I’ve noticed that blutack on F key reduce my low D more than just adesive tape…
is it possible that rubber reduce the vibrations of the wood while playing?
and what about how the air allow the wood to vibrate?
emmm ok, stop questions, I just wish that you have somethings good from them..
night!
Someone who knows about this:
http://www.ian.org/Schlieren/HowTo.html
maybe able to tell you if the temperature differential between the breath and the air is sufficient to show the jet.
A picture here:
http://people.rit.edu/andpph/text-schlieren.html
suggests that the difference between air cooled by iced water and a room (how warm ?) is sufficient.
We had fun with it at a school science fair once.
(sorry, I guess I should have woken up one of Terry’s threads for that)
Hi Terry,
When I was trying to get the old tone thing going, I made a short length of 19mm pipe about 5" long sealed at both ends, I put a semblence of an embrochure hole in it and I also attached a manometer to the tube.
It was interesting to see the effect of changing the airflow angle into the tube and its affect on the static pressure. I was really only playing with the blowing into the embrochure idea. Anyway.
I thought it would be funny to turn into into on one of those childrens toys that you blow into to keep a ping pong ball in the air.
It was good to see the windmill toy…
Regards
Andy
I’m interested in anything that will encourage people to work on their blowing technique.
I know the old guys didn’t bother too much about that but not many of them could play in tune. (having said that I still prefer there playing). What drives my interest is that, having to make head joints & tune flutes. It would be better for me if more players understood some principals of blowing (at least).
This just popped up as a Google Ad at the top of the page:
http://www.warburton-usa.com/index.php/products/accessories/pete?gclid=CMjf1eqOxaACFSpeagodlV9FbQ
elliptical trainer fer yer lips
beats playing for that long, eh?
Would you need you leave your dentures in a glass?
I’d think it a good idea for those starting flute that late in life while still having a fondness for whirlygigs.
Wow !
damn straight!
and they’s got one o’dem “acoustic velocity sensor” thingies!!!