This is weird, kinda looks like a fife with an emboucher plate and pignose double holes at the bottom like a r****der. Check it out. ![]()
Didymus, you seem to sniff out weird instruments like a hog can a truffle. That thing looks like somebody stuck a nose flute onto a whistle. ![]()
It’s Welsh.
And your sources? :roll:
Quote @ from the listing
Location: Sunny Wales
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…Is this instrument real?
I saw this Frankenwhistleflutethingyrecorder? too and it really did seem bizarre…I chalked it up to a fife with the training wheels for your lips left on.
Or am I all wet?
PC
That’s kind of where I was, too; some sort of training fife. Looks like another way to do the “Melody Flute” thing, except instead of attaching a whistle-style mouthpiece, this one looks like it has some sort of ‘collector’ that allows you to play by blowing across the hole but without having to worry about embouchure.
Its a lousy picture. Try as I might, I can’t see the double holes Didymus saw.
The double holes are on the left upper side of the whistle. They are the sixt and seventh holes down from the emboucher hole. The two double holes are the holes that have the disks on them. The pic is kinda dark. The seller even states it has holes like a recorder. Hope this helps.
Frank
It looks like an offbeat version of those ‘cheater flutes’ that come up from time to time. I had one once that required prodigious amounts of air, even with the cheater attachment–or maybe because of it.
Tom D.
OK, I see them now. If a recorder was bred with a fife, this appears to be one of the more disturbing possible outcomes.
Is Trisha the culprit? ![]()
I bought one of these in a toy store about 12 years ago on a visit to England. It is made of plastic. The fingering is based on a recorder but it is fairly useless in the second octave (read, “doesn’t play”). The notes it produces are pretty much in tune but IMHO the current bid (GBP £2.20) is about as much as should be paid for it.
Cheers,
David
it is an obvious result of cloneing gone awry ![]()