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Hello, I've been playing tin whistle for a few years, lurking here and reading your advice.

I'm was wondering if anyone could point me in the direction here: can a sax mouthpiece be attached to a tin whistle body? And overblow to the 2nd octave? Looks like it might fit a Bb generation with some tape, right?

I've read threads here about the highland hornpipe, xaphoon, and so on. But I don't want to learn new fingering, I just want to play the same 30 songs I know the way I know how. Reading about clarinets overblowing a 12th and so on makes me feel out of my depth. Before I buy materials I thought I'd try here first.

Thanks!
-IGS

The clarinet's overblowing at the 12th is basically a function of the cylindrical bore/stopped pipe combination and not the mouthpiece (for all practical purposes here the same as the sax's). So your sax-whistle will almost certainly overblow at the 12th (not the octave) and probably sound awful too...

https://forum.saxontheweb.net/showthrea ... oehm-Flute

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EN9BBYIp0OM

Could be a tenor, maybe an alto.
Hard to tell Scroll to 9:05.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQ5hMM6LOE8

The bore of an old Susato Low F whistle I have is the same as that of a clarinet.

So... I stuck a clarinet mouthpiece on it, and it plays pretty well!

I had to drill a thumb-hole, so as to get a one-octave range.

As was pointed out it overblows at the 12th so I just stick in the low octave.

Google: sans luthier clariphone, and go to their website. It's better than a clarinet mouthpiece on a whistle and you get 2 1/2 octaves. The fingering is easy to learn. If I can do it, anyone can.

Thanks Old Dog, that looks quite good. The clips of it sound wonderful. Very difficult to find in the US though.

Perhaps I will go the Xaphoon route to give the reeds a try.

Or for a quarter the price, there's this mini sax.

I've tried the Xaphoon and found the holes very awkward to cover properly with my fingers - and I have large hands. The Minisax's holes appear to be just as unevenly spaced. The Clariphone's tone holes, on the other hand, are evenly spaced and comfortable to use. I got mine directly from SAN in Spain and found them to be fast, friendly and honest to deal with.

Old Dog wrote:Google: sans luthier clariphone, and go to their website. It's better than a clarinet mouthpiece on a whistle and you get 2 1/2 octaves. The fingering is easy to learn. If I can do it, anyone can.

Thanks, I checked it out, it looks really cool.

But it's 100 euros, and mine was free (I already had the whistle, and somebody gave me the mouthpiece).