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15mm diameter, and at LEAST 15cm long 💛

It's Vice in English, Vise in American, I suppose it is for the person writing it to decide, and the person reading it to understand.

Yes! Normally, by doubling all the lengths you should get a whistle that's an octave lower

One word of caution: for the lower whistles like low D, the lowest two finger holes are very far apart if you keep these proportions. I suggest slightly moving the last hole upwards towards the mouthpiece and widening it until it's in tune and doing the opposite with the second-to-last hole (move it slightly away and lessen the diameter) to achieve a more even finger spacing. Happy making!

Metric system sucks

@@williambailey9888 U suck

It shouldn't be an issue for anyone to convert from one to the other, or even learn both systems.

@@williambailey9888 while i am American and normally use the imperial system. I normally use the metric system for flutes and any instruments that are small, the metric system is a lot more accurate and easier to use in tasks such as these.

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Hey He Can't Understand Gujrati......He is Foreigner

Thank you for pointing that out. I have inserted corrections in subtitles. I hope you enjoyed my videos!

Thank you very much for your order, I'm glad to hear that the whistle arrived fast and in good condition. I hope your daughter will enjoy playing the whistle as much as I did making it!

i have found an old pvc pipe on the roof of the building and I have been planing for like about four days to start making a flute out of it , but it has a strong irritating plastic smell even after I washed It , the smell is bad enough to give me a headache , how should I deal with it ?

i think recycling old pvc should be reserved for other purposes than making instruments. Plastics may remain a long very time in the environment, but their qualities rapidly decline. Its FLEXIBILITY vanishes, and it makes it very breakable and hard to carve. Better use new pvc, or not too old.

and remember : poisonous ! => put some stable material between your mouth and the mouthpiece. Stick a slice of wood in the case of traverse flute, or splice the mouthpiece with a thin cotton rope, whitch you can stick with molten wax (put softened wax on the surface of your knot, then heat it will make it rub in and stick the whole toghether).

the type of splicing i use : www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b&biw=1280&bih=655&tbm=isch&sa=1&ei=9NfyWo65AcGzkwXc7I3YAw&q=surliure+images&oq=surliure+images&gs_l=img.3...89772808.89793868.0.89794394.15.15.0.0.0.0.94.764.15.15.0....0...1c.1.64.img..0.9.444...0j0i67k1j0i30k1j0i5i30k1j0i24k1.0.OKrTZKFhQ98

Thank you for your insightful comment and discussion about PVC. I write "PVC pipe" as the material for the purpose of this video, which is intended for international audience, but the actual pipe I use is what is called "VE pipe" in Japanese (a type of electrical conduit), which is more easily obtainable in Japan and suitable for whistle making. The walls of Japanese PVC pipes are too thick and that also makes the whistle quite heavy. Different industrial standards in different countries, I suppose. This video is a starter guide and it is my hope that the people who watch this video can find whatever material that is suitable for whistle making in their country, whether PVC, VE pipe, or even metal pipes or bamboo.

Thank you for your comment and insight. As you point out, the finger holes on this particular whistle turned out to be quite large, because of the sample whistle from which I made the template and because of the position of the template. The whistle plays very well, though, and there is no problem closing all the holes with average fingers. The holes can be made smaller by moving the template slightly up (towards the mouthpiece) when drilling the holes.

Yes, with large holes, the sound becomes more solid, this is an advantage, but this reduces the Q factor of the channel. How to avoid such problems: Take a thin rubber band, a little stretch along the cylindrical sample. Note the inner end of the windway, the centers of the holes and the end of the barrel. Now take your sample, already set to the lowest note, but without holes. Tighten the rubber band with marks so that the windway and the end of the barrel coincide with the marks. Mark the center of the holes. It works good even with very different tubes and different keys of sample and copy.

Thanks for commenting again. I have used the rubber-band method in the past, and it worked quite well for smaller whistles. My methods have evolved since then and I don't use it any more, but it is particularly useful when you don't have a sample whistle to make a template from in the same key as the one you want to make. For example, if anyone wants to make a C or Bb whistle but only has a D whistle, they can use the rubber-band method instead of the masking tape template I demonstrated in the video.

Hi, thanks for your question. C# is half a note lower than D. In other words, if you play a C whistle with all the holes covered, you get the note of C; with the bottom hole half-covered, you get a C#; and finally, if you cover all the holes but the bottom one, you get the note of D, which is one note higher than C. I hope that answers your question :-)

Mistranslation? it should say too low (pitch) or too long (the tube), not too high