I know revoicing includes
adjusting whistles so that flat or
sharp notes are in tune
Does it also include simply
changing changing
a whistle’s tonal quality?
I have a good high-end
lower whistle where the
second octave is a bit thin
and shrill. Can that be
changed? Is that ‘revoicing’?
Yes.
Mike Copeland re-voiced my brass D. It was too shrill above 2nd G. He re-voiced it so that it was no-longer shrill in the 2nd octave, but as an obligatory trade off, the first D volume suffered (it used to boom, but now it is of a more normal volume). That was my choice. Mike did voice his D whistles to be able to hold up in large sessions. Long ago, they were not so loud.
Tweeking is a poor-man’s re-voicing for economy whistles.
I sent a low-F back to Glenn Schultz for revoicing. It had a second octave that had a lot of lower harmonics in it, and it was very touchy about octave jumps. It’s really wonderful now, although the bottom still isn’t as strong as I’d like.
Charlie
Many thanks, Jim
Jim,
Revoicing generally means adjustments to the power end of the whistle: the windway, labium (lip or blade), and window or opening.
The adjustments might be changing the plug, if that’s an option on a certain whistle, raising or lowering the lip, or re-shaping the lip. That’s usually it, and there seems to be a fine balance to all these things,
As Mark said, it usually effects both octaves and sometimes sacrifices must be made to strengthen one at the risk of weakening the other.
Anything dealing with tone holes, either making larger, undercutting or ovaling, is more of a tuning issue than voicing.
So the answer to both questions is yes.
Jim
[ This Message was edited by: jimr on 2002-05-08 18:44 ]