Very nice Jon. I think I could even follow that. Just the thing to get my grandaughter on to.:You_Rock_
Great tutorial!
If you use green Elder for the tube and seasoned wood for the plugs (either end) the tube shrinks onto the plug for a super join and I have rarely had one done this way lose its whistle with age and drying....
...If you do not cut the plugs to length until you have "tuned" the whistle you can pull them out easily to reshape/replace them.
i would just like to ask how did you make that flute? i mean ive read the guide you posted links to but all the woods he posted are unknown to me and are probably not native to britain and certainly not central suffolk! did you use elder to make it, creating the barriers between the sound chambers with dowel or what?
No, that's not what I want to achieve at all. Bloody horrible things...
I want to learn how to make proper, tuned, diatonic whistles. I've gone through about 5 different commercial whistles, and I'm yet to find one that's actually tuned right. They always seem to be flat on C (for D whistles). But nobody seems to have any idea how to get something to produce a note without closing the end...
looks great... are those burn marks around the whole?