I’m thinking of making a stand to hold all my whistles, and my current idea is a series of long pegs to put all the small ones on, and maybe rails to put the low ones one. Something like that. But before I actually start trying to make one, I wonder if anyone has something they recommend? Any interesting whistle storage/organization/display options out there?
For many years I had something with loops of pipe cleaner sticking out which held all my whistles vertically, so I could access them and put them away quickly while maintaining good ventilation through them. The piece of furniture that it was attached to is gone now, so I need to try to recreate that setup somewhere else. It worked well.
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Any old vase or jug will do but I have seen these recommended as a cheap solution:
On ebay : plate rack
Amazon has several options including this one.
And this:
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I used to be part of a group which did school performances and I needed something I could clamp onto an 8-foot table that would display all my whistles and flutes in a single row for visibility.
I found a necktie rack at a charity shop, a sturdy piece of wood around a yard long and around 3 inches wide with a row of wooden dowels going the whole length.
It’s not unlike what Mr Gumby shows, but only a single row, twice as long, and with a wider base.
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For use onstage I bought a regular woodwind folding stand. It’s seen 45 years of regular use.
As you see it has five holes drilled in it. The company that made it offered a number of different holders you could attach, for piccolo, recorder, Boehm flute, clarinet, and sax.
I was using it for whistles and wooden flutes, for which the piccolo attachments would have been perfect, but it was going to be too expensive to buy five of them so I made my own thingies.
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Nothing fancy (the stand) but these were made for function, not show. Simple enough: Smaller/shorter pegs for the soprano instruments, and thicker/longer pegs for the alto and tenor winds. Easy to make if you have the tools.
I’ve also seen similar pre-made racks on Etsy or ebay, can’t remember which. You get the base and the pegs, plus some glue to assemble. Can’t recall the price, but it seemed reasonable to me at the time, which was maybe 2-3 years ago.
Loren, that is almost identical to the ones I made in my workshop for keeping things organized, even down to the thickness of the base and the number and arrangement of dowels. I had to do a double take there for a moment.
But as you say, a simple, obvious and cheap solution, especially if you have a drill press or similar to drill the holes such that they keep the dowels parallel.
Depending on where you stage something like this, you still have the danger of knocking it over and sending everything flying. In that sense, a cloth whistle roll is more secure, but this solution also serves as a good drying rack.
