I had an interesting idea. When I built the basswhistle, I folded the instrument to make it smaller and the fipple is upside-down.
An interesting benefit was discovered, because the fipple is upside-down, the moisture is inclined to drip away from the windway back down into the pipe and I put a little catch basin in the bottom to act as a water trap.
So gravity works in our favor here. Now my question is, has anyone tried this on small whistles? (High-D, Low-D, etc) Maybe it would help reduce clogging.
Hmm. I have a tubing bender, but I don’t know if I could bend it tight enough befor the first hole. Maybe a 90? With the whistle pointed out at a 45, it would be pointing down at a 45 too. hmmm. I may mess with that idea tommorow insted of actual work…
Wait, what about, insted of bending the whistle, adding a double bent bocal so that the condensate forms befor it gets to the main windway? You could put in a loop, with a very small leak hole at the bottom of the loop.
Sorry fo repeating myself, but I did with an Abell A/Bb set.
It did avoid juice build-up, flowing directly underneath the whistle.
Because of the strange shape of the Abell mouthpiece (pointy, with the top metal edge protruding, i.e. not flush with the fipple plug) it did dimprove its voice too: less breathiness. Also it made it more comfortable, with the whistle closer to the chest.
What it didn’t change, surprisingly, is the volume I heard: same as with the window upright.
Come to think of it–but this I did’t try --possibly it could improve pick-up from these clip-on mikes on a gooseneck: underneath it could pick the whistle sound more cleanly, with less interference from one’s breathing.