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... in-person. Eventually I got tired of waiting, and in October of 2018 I flew to Bangalore ... weeks ago I opened a box and found my old tin whistle collection, and have been re-learning what ... best place to get advice would probably be: Chiff and Fipple. I'm really glad this place is ...

... and not pronounce judgments against whistles they've never seen or played. In fact I ... sometimes some of you do overreach a bit in posting comments that are purely speculative and subject ... it is in the interest of all visitors to the Chiff and Fipple website and to Chiff and Fipple's ...

... in the tube is what may have passed for a whistle blade back in 1843 (as originally made by ... no sessions with whistle players, no Chiff and Fipple discussions. But there had been ... point where Mr Clarke supposedly invented the tin whistle, there would have been plenty of other ...

... in the headjoint of a flute or the fipple of a whistle. The "chiff" of a whistle might almost be a fortuitous accident. ... be worth trying to fill with new instruments. The tin whistles I have are all from the Generation stable. ...

... I just ran across the same description of a tin whistle in which the word 'chiff' was (mis)used to refer to the body of a whistle on another ...

... our local Renaissance Faire which features people playing Generation whistles with the red and blue plastic tops in addition to plastic Yamaha ... sort of way English has to cobble together compound terms like "tin whistle" or "penny whistle" or "Irish whistle" ...

... no proper German word for it You have to wonder though. During the early part of the last century whistles were made in Germany, many Clarke like tin ones: https://i.postimg.cc/L69pWpwp/DSC-6394.jpg I have even seen photos of Nazi era ones, swastikas and all as well as pics of Hitlerjugend boys ...

... quite a few of those, never really noticed the "Flageolet"-writing). However, I have never heard anyone call it that -- and I'm strictly ... most hits seem to be (poorly) automatically translated from "tin whistle". Yes, it looks like some people did use it but like I said, ...

... I have always known (since age 13, more than 30 yrs ago) it as a "tin whistle". That doesn't mean that the word "Blechflöte" hasn't been used but ...

... the flute, because it looks like a beak. That family would include the tin whistle and instruments like the ocarina or gemshorn. There is no German word for tin whistle.

... and for all definitions out there. The chap (ltwhistle) is not in a position to do so. It's not ... should be self-evident from him initially accepting/including 'chiff' as the tube etc. As I mentioned in a thread a few ...

It was the whistle anatomy on the page that brought it to my attention, ... for their definitions, and posted the definition of chiff based on the photo shared. When someone questioned ... "chip and fiffle" on here, but nothing pointing to that website. There's actually mention of it 18 ...

... me. It's the wooden plug in the mouthpiece of a recorder or a rolled tin whistle. The bit that directs the wind onto the blade where it can be divided and thus make ...

... and better craftsmanship. https://daveshaw.co.uk/SHAW_Whistles/shaw_whistles.html My TWZ "pure brass" also sounds rather breathy: https://www.tinwhistle.de/tin-whistles/twz-tin-whistles-aus-eigener-fertigung/twz-pure-brass-whistle.php

Hi, I’m Mike and new to the Chiff & Fipple Forums. To keep my mind busy during lockdown, I decided to learn the tin whistle. I don’t know how I stumbled upon the idea of a whistle, ...