Building DIY DEATH WHISTLE
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 ก.พ. 2021
- I learn about aztec death whistles and try to build one DIY PVC version. And yes I know, I still pronounce "whisTle", i'm so french, I can't help it.
More details about the building on my patreon / nicolasbras
I made a sample pack with this instrument, also available on my Patreon :
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"You've probably heard this sound before"
*Opens the gates of hell*
😱 🗣👿🌉👹👺🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥... Lol 😂
@Kenny's Life Stories Lol 😂
@Kenny's Life Stories ... Bye the way love your user name! My ex boyfriend name is Kenny! And now that he is married to someone else i still have to hear his life Story! Lol 😂
If you blow it next to a Windows PC, it opens the Bill's Gates of Hell!!
Lol 🤣
I wonder if it would be possible to hook a bunch of death whistles to an organ and make a song just of screaming
would love to!
bruuuutal
@@NicolasBras you need to do this now
LOOK MUM NO COMPUTER would like to know your location.
Ok someone needs to do that now because I need to hear it
The guy who made the one at 2:58 has the probably the best and most realistic tone of any of the ones that I've heard. He got that thing spot on.
2:50,
Your death whistle just doesn't sound like someone screaming. It just sounds like angry wind.
it sounds like a kid playing Fortnite after he dies
@bro good for you
@bro dude thats so cool! Fortnite really does shit to ya
Agree 👍 I just got a 3D printed one, and what he has sounds nothing like an actual Death Whistle, cripes they are so common now some were like 5 bucks...
Probably less then he paid in piping 😜...
Maybe make a Stratocaster from cardboard next?
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I remember wasting an entire week and 2 pounds of good quality clay trying to make that whistle. In the end, it worked with the cheapest and most low-tech stuff possible: trash.
I didn't get a sound as great as your model, thanks for the inspiration!
Dude I spent like an accumulative 5 hours trying to make one of these I’m so excited that this video has been uploaded!!!!!
Maybe it had to do with the clay 🤷🏽♂️ Back then there was no fancy clay, you did eith what the earth gave you, earth claym
Foguista is a Brazilian hero. He's our national treasure.
foguista orgulho da nação
Imagine secretly bringing one of these with you on a camping trip with your buddys and blowing this is the middle of the night
Stealing this idea for my next boyscout campout
DONT TEMPT ME
My gf and a few friends of mine are going camping soon, thanks for the idea🤣🤣🤣
@@joshuaadler4259 You really want to spend the rest of the night smelling their fouled undershorts?
@@RWZiggy there's a reason I pack my own tent lol
what I’m seeing in the bisected diagram you showed is that it mimics the shape of a human mouth and throat. I think if you made a curved resonance chamber you would get a much more scream-like sound. Great video, thanks for the content!
Thanks!
Don't concern yourself with coming across as if you're mocking. In the first 2 minutes you appraise the sound, breaking it down into noise, flute, and its other component parts. You're obviously approaching this from a creative standpoint, trying to better understand what they did. Great stuff!
the only part that comes across as mocking is the end, when he pretends that the sound was what he was aiming for
The original demonstration audio is also heavily distorted, it's an instrument that's meant to be heard a fair distance away is being played directly into a mic, and one of pretty poor quality in the first place. A death whistle is meant to be a blood-curdling screech within the upper human vocal range, not white noise and wind. People not taking a few seconds to logically think about this, what it was realistically used for, nor similar occurrences within the same or adjacent culture, are really just appropriating and not appreciating, and it becomes mockery when you think a terrible sounding miniature horn compares to a very specific whistle that's meant to replicate human screeching.
It's good that he is thoughtful enough to not want to be pperceived as mocking: don't discourage that impulse, we need more people with that kind of empathy, not fewer.
I understand the death whistle's purpose is to make a noise that frightens the enemy. That's also the purpose of a bagpipe - they are forbidden by the Geneva Convention for use as a weapon of war.
There's also the... Cynex?? Or something? I can't quite remember if it was used to scare people, but I THINK it was.
@@BakaTaco you might be thinking of the carynx, the celtic war horn.
@@darronjknight That is the one, thank you kindly!
What is a bagpipe?
@@grafmecx2641 Scottish musical instrument consisting of an airbag and flute pipes !!!
The little metal thing he had in the beginning sounded more like the actual whistle than all of the pvc ones he made.
Yeah, all the others sounds like white noise
Darth Vader flute
does anyone know what its called? I cant understand what he's saying sadly
@@ioth953 he called it a "bird call"
Yeh, no offense, but it just sounded like air blowing through a plastic pipe. The last ones when the pipe was covered with the cupped hand was the best result.
Bought a 3D printed one off Amazon and that thing gives me chills even when I’m the one making the sound. It sounds like a brutally disembodied spirit desperately trying to escape whatever hell is surely close behind.
An air compressor can also blow these whistles. I hooked two 3D printed death whistles up to a rig with a remote controlled valve and hooked the rig up to an air compressor. I used it on Trick or Treat when I was handing out candy.
I hid the death whistle rig and air compressor on my porch and, as I opened the door with the candy bowl in hand, I pressed the button to activate the death whistles. The best reaction I got was when three boys came to the door. Two of them turned around and ran away immediately and the third looked left, looked right, then turned and ran the moment he realized his friends were gone. Their fathers, standing out in the street, thought it was hilarious. I then called the boys back and gave them their candy, and gave them more candy when they came back again. The kids loved the death whistles too, after they got over being scared of them.
The contraption now sits on top of my boss's office, hooked up to an industrial air compressor now. Every once in a while we hit the button to see who we can get to jump.
I'm not saying you should definitely post your coworkers reactions on TH-cam, but I'm also not not saying that
Now I REALLY want to see some coworker reaction videos, or at least pictures of your work! Sounds fantastic >:-D
I'm going to try this on the constantly barking dogs in the street I live
I don't think it's as close to death whistle just yet.
Agreed. The one that looks like a head that the guy demos totally sounds like screaming. The ones built with the tubing just sound like non-working whistles.
Agreed
@@KarstenJohansson agreed #2
As we know with concert flutes, the material they are made from has an affect on the sound.
The one by foguista on wich he based his experiments, actually sounds a lot better, like real screaming.
but the whole point of the death whistle is that its sound is the literal sound of a person screaming like they were being brutally murdered
That's not true, it represents the winds of Mictlan, not screaming.
@@tracefleemangarcia8816 oh I didn’t know that, the only thing I noticed is that it sounds like a person screaming and the one he built doesn’t sound like that at all
@@tracefleemangarcia8816 man you know that's not true. That's just some soft white washing people put on our ancestors history to make it more palatable. It sounds like the scream of a man dying to terrify warriors of rival nations. Our ancestors made towers of the skulls of there enemies.
@@internetguy1260 That's true for some things, like cannibalism and sacrifice, but not for others. Mictlan is characterized by winds so powerful they tear and rip the flesh like obsidian shards. Furthermore these are found in funerary contexts, not military ones. There's a thin line between romaticism and demonization but you have to toe it.
@@gatozarin I perfectly agree with that : does not sound like a human scream as it should be ;) !
Props to this guy citing his inspiration and clearly laying out his intentions for the project!
Xavier: So this is a death whistle.*blows whistle*
Audience: Oh my...
Xavier: Now this is a death tuba.
*Flatulence*
Yeah the death of an asshole 😂
I don't recommend watching this video at two in the morning, while in bed and someone is sleeping behind you, no matter how much you lower the volume on your phone the screaming part is so loud it will definitely wake them up and earn you a slap on the face..
I do not recommend this..
Source, I just got slapped
You rightly deserve the slapping ! :D
First, for looking video on a phone in bed with a sleeping person !
Second, for not using headphones !
You ok there bud
I should turn it off then lol
Yeah.. 3:15 am is also not a good time at your girlfriends parents house 😅
Me: Hearing Death whistle Whoo 😯
Girls Parents: Is my daughter screaming bloody murder! 😳
Me: I wonder if anyone heard anything, I hope they don’t think... 🤭
That's domestic abuse lol
Interesting. Sounds similar to when I was a kid, we used to blow on a blade of green grass held between the thumbs and the side of both palms to make it whistle. If you blew too hard, you sometimes got a similar sound until the grass broke.
naw i saw people blowing into grass waiting in line for a roller coaster yesterday and it whistled kind of is that what they was doing?
@@Memer9456 I guess it is a little different even though the sound is somewhat similar, the blade of grass acts as a reed that vibrates if I'm not mistaken!
I do that often as I’m walking my dog and the lawn has gone for 6 days without being mowed- that’s when I can find the most perfect grass blades for it. I use it to call birds in the area, because by the way I close my hands around it, I can alter the pitch and such, also I can trill my tongue and make it really animal like. The best grass for it has a broad flat blade, without a central ridge- the ridge really ruins the sound, and often makes it just tear when you try to blow through your thumbs. 👍🏻
(In my opinion, it doesn’t really sound like a death whistle at all, but it’s a more clear note.)
You definitely didn't get close enough to stop experimenting. I think the progress is interesting, but this warrants more videos and more experimentation. Right now your whistle sounds interesting, but it also sounds entirely different.
"You may have heard this sound before."
Proceeds to violently kill a goat.
...
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Alright then.
Super creative! I am a little happier right now as well! Lol! Keep up the good work! Greetings from Greece
Thanks!
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I don't hear any of the screeching/screaming sound in your death whistles, like with the first guy's. sorry.
Yeah. It was quite disappointing. The sound is not even close.
These are trash compared to the other guys.
Right. Sounded like he was blowing air through a tube...
Honesty they kinda sound like roars instead of screams. And wind
Ya, made me picture a wraith reaching for person while releasing a gasp or maybe a less aggressive zombie rather than a death whistle scream (specifically the one at 4:51). Still a kinda cool sound just not the same.
😄This made my morning. Always a joy to people having fun making things. Thank You.👍
Thank you Nicolas! Your videos are free standing art as well as instructional and inspirational.
I made a death whistle and put his name on it a few months ago as a memorial to him. One of the best sounding ones I have so far. I think he blessed it 😂
I feel that a small vessel and a big resonator may sound closer to the clay model... Also maybe bevelling the vessel edges? Make the cavity asymetrical? I'll try some things...
There is a lot more to try, send me videos!
How did the experiments go
4:44 yeah! I'd like that scream along with that hand gesture. Perfect match!
5:43 This one sounds the best. A very eerie and cinematic sound
nice flutes but man it feels like you missed the point at the end, we call it a death whistle because at first it sounds like someone crying out in agony
I think he covered that at 1:17
Yes I didn't got the exact right sound, I also think he get a good death sound with the saturation of his microphone!
isn't it supposed to sound like the winds of the afterlife, which is why it's played to the enemy as they are about to hear it during their journey?
The whistles are shaped as skulls because of Mictlāntēcutli being the king of Mictlan and the god of skulls.
As almost everything in the Aztec culture is deeply connected to mythology, it would be very strange to have the explanation be something as mundane as "it sounds like a screaming dude"
Its the most terrifying thing to be made into an air raid siren.
What the hell is your pfp? And judging by it I believe you should know what a JU-87 “Jeriko sirens”
@@sergioguerra7551 I was thinking the exact same thing.
@@sergioguerra7551 hortler stole the swasti k a from Indian culture
@@shwingleman yeah I know but that is not the “Indian” culture swastika
@@sergioguerra7551 maybe, but I'm just attempting to see the positive option rather than the more likely option of that guy being a troll.
Oh, I really liked videos from that ancient instrument expert. I didn’t realize he passed away. His videos scratched such a niche curiosity of mine and gave such wonderful writing inspiration, time to go watch a bunch of his videos a again I suppose.
Mexican here... Aztec culture used to create several whistles which sounds incredibly similar to natural sounds.
My favourite is the jaguar whistle and this one from the vídeo.
I recomend you to look for eagle and birds whistles
I'm working on it, such a fan of this kind of whistles!
Two points:
1, the primary "bass" death-whistle pipe you first demonstrate sounds like a Giger Xenomorph Alien.
2, when my nose gets semi-stuffy on one side, I will sometimes plug the clear side with a finger and take a deep breath through the stuffy side. It sounds just like a death whistle.
Lmao you got that too???
When the quiet kid takes out his instrument.
Jeremy spoke in class today
Yeah my ancestors were quiet because ya'll murdered them. :)
@@lisscat how do you know KasVos ancestors? unless you actually know them I don't think you should assume (sorry for bad English)
Plays the scream of time and resets humanity
@@lisscat cool
It's nice to see someone obviously enjoying what he's doing. You must love pvc pipes.😊
I love your respect to the culture! I am so happy i found your channel!
His local hardware store has to think he’s replumbing his home every month with all the pvc he goes through.
My PVC suppliers follow my channel, they are kind of proud!
if I was going to war and my enemy started playing this I'd just go home
same man it's terrifying asf
man your creativity, knowledge and dedication is insane. Instant subbed. Amazing video, Thanks
Great content mate, really fine work and you present your show and yourself perfectly 👌🏻
this is not the greatest video to play in the middle of the night when the rest of the family is asleep
Sleep is death being shy
Listening at 2am. I agree!!!
Its not really that bad
Oh yes it is. Lol. Crank it!
Very cool!! I always wondered how this system works and now It´s very clear. I will try soon!
Thanks! It is also a great system to explore with the 3d printing!
@@NicolasBras you read my mind
I like the way you speak English - it's better than the way I speak French, and French people have complained about that, due to my accent. I have no trouble pronouncing words in German, Russian, or Italian, however, but my mouth just will not form itself properly for French.
You have inspired me to make my own death whistles. I bought a ceramic one to give to my brother for Christmas (2023), primarily to scare the children (next door to hour house in Palm Springs) who always scream when they play outdoors. I believe they are from the Agua Caliente tribe instead of Aztec.
salut mec ta la meilleure chaine de fabrication d instruments a vent originaux. you are the best keep doing what you doing and I will keep watching thanks
His curiosity and enthusiasm are very contagious
4:48 "Close to physical pain" **cries in headphone**
I need to share this too!
For me 5:30
they sound amazing, i could totally see them being used for foley work on animals, wind and explosions
You should edit clips from all of the different whistles together to see just how terrifying it sounds. Bonus points if you can do some really sour sounding intervals like diminished fifth or augmented fourth
I'm incorporating a form of the death whistle in my Pokémon fangames. This version will be a key item called the Duskull Whistle. Basically, the Ghost-Types of the Region I'm creating just want to be left alone, so they become intangible (turn invisible with no collision) when you get too close. Blowing into the Duskull Whistle will get their attention and make them become tangible again.
Tell us when ur done
This is freaking (freaky) cool!! I am all about discovering new sounds and soundscapes. I love what you're doing here. I think you could make the pipe slide to control the sound...like a trumpet/trombone.
Amazing. Thank you so much for making this video! 🤗
I can totally see the effect this would have in the field. If you were a war party marching through the rainforest, and you heard the ghostly screams surrounding you, that would be terrifying, as they probably wouldn't have known they were just whistles, and superstition was way more powerful a thing back then.
The look your giving the camera is scarier than the death whistle sounds lol
After so much effort my expectations were hitting the rooftop and you succeeded to completely disappoint. Those sounds did sound nothing like the death whistle at the beginning, more like a vacuum cleaner.
5:44 that distant tonal whistle in the distance overcome by wind sound is eerie and phenomenal
I really hope these whistles become a thing in certain genres of music. Like, with some proper mixing it would be cool as a standard in many shoegaze pieces.
Why shoegaze???
@@abyssalboy8811 The psuedo-screams would sound nice almost buried under all the fuzz.
Wowzers! I've read about these. Always wanted to hear one. I imagine the next trend in death metal. Cookie monsters out. Enter... Blood curdling shrieking, from FOAC = Fingers on a chalkboard. Or tune it to notes and play Christmas music.
Very amazing bro, congrats for achieving the sound
I am more of a guitar guy than a whistle/flute, but I have been listening to some Jethro Tull lately, and winter is coming, maybe a flute project of some sort is in my future. - Cheers
sounds like death, you made it!! (my favorite parts 2:54, 3:48, 4:22,) really nice video; I've never heard of this weird instrument before, but now I love it.
Interesting! What about a howling whistle? or a growling one, it seems to me that your whistles are capable of that kinfd of sound. Great video!
Yes it is the same principle! I'm a big fan of bird calls and other whistles, I'll make some videos about them!
Noice little workshop you got there bud! Respect for your craftiness.
I really love this. It’s very cool that you want to learn about these things and to learn about them. If you didn’t know what the sound was this would be terrifying. It really does sound like a group of screaming people.
Nicolas' DDW. The extra D stands for DDIY
"What's _that_ extra D for?"
"That's a typo"
Or maybe XD... Or D. . Lol 😂
Can we get an update on whether or not you got one successfully created? Man, you were sooooo close!
That's an awesome job you did!
Thanks!
No-one:
TH-cam at 3 am: *building a DIY death whistle*
Nicolas: this one is terrifying 4:44 **starts flipping me off**
All the technology now and you still couldn’t beat let alone replicate that sound… talk about Native Americans being master engineers💪🏽
Intriguing! makes me wonder whether the resonators / chambers can be cascaded or nested for other effects.
Everyone: screams
Me: sounds like a vacuum
That whistle would explain a lot of horror stories about screams in the woods.
it would be a fox, scary scream when you first hear it
Wow! Awesome content man! Hi from Canada 🇨🇦.
Thanks man!
I'm going to make one of these and use it on my truck as a backup indcator alarm. 😱
Thank you sir!
While there isn't that vocal quality like in the first one he still did a fantastic job getting the body of the sound! Very spooky
4:22 wither sound
Love your hard work
Thanks!
I think the bird call device you used in your hands came the closest to simulating the actual death whistle. Throw in some sounds of axe hitting wood right before doing the DW and your have the perfect thing to make your neighbors wonder.
May I make a suggestion? In the part about attempts at clay reproductions of the instrument (1:36-1:48) I see spherical and hemispherical resonating chambers (the ones that the sound does not emanate from- you identify it as the place where the air vibrates, but that's just another way to say "resonator") but in your version you have a flat-ended cylinder. I don't know how technically educated you are in acoustics, but differently shaped resonators will emphasize different harmonics and overtones. It's possible that you simply cannot exactly replicate the sound of the original with a flat-ended cylinder.
So what is my suggestion? I love the idea of making it variable, so maybe you could make the end of the plug that goes into the cylinder a hemisphere to try to catch the harmonics that I'm not hearing.
(Yes, I know, the sound you're hearing is not necessarily what I hear due to recording, data transmission and playback compression via TH-cam plus my cheesy speakers, but I still don't hear quite the same sound from the reproductions as from the original.
Just trying to help.)
You're right, I wanted to try to tune them with pipe extensions!
3:49 killed me. lol XD
Playing one of these in the dead of night while a small group of people had a BBQ in the dark will forever be my most memorable pranking experience.
I don't have anything against you, man. You seem cool and this is only my first video.
But good Lord, the random jump cuts! Keep that sound out of my ear or otherwise warn me!
*shivers*
"Go on! there are only three of them!"
"Its not the men we fear sir! Its the light breeze!"
Would be good for Black or Death metal and halloween music.
This is so cool! And it would still be so cool, if all you'd done was say "Meet the Death Army!" Musical instrument experiment AND wit. Merci bien!!!
I love death whistles! Great video
It's 1 am I don't know how or why I got here but I don't like the fact that I did
alot of these sounds give me serious ghibli vibes, like in the scenes of flying ships in nausicaa and laputa.
2:40 this Brazilian guy tutorial Is the best Whistle, there's no other equal, no comparison...
I love the gentle sounds of Ocarinas.
Did you ever watched _Blow Out_ with John Travolta? Apparently all he needed for the perfect scream was one of these whistles
Friends don't let friends watch John Travolta movies.
So basically what bill cipher gave to dipper, " a head that countinues to scream "
at 4:08 a soul comes out!
yooo I don't why I clicked this video but I'm glad to know there is something called the death whistle
4:31 POV, your in a Nether portal
Some of these sound a bit like a turbine engine... nice work!
thanks!
Why do i have to watch these kind of Videos at 3am!? I mean i just woke up and make myself ready for work...
Well okay technically its its 2:50 but still
These are awesome. I especially love the one at 4:57 !
NONE of those sounded anything like the actual "death whistle" though........
That originated when that one kid in whistle making class got bored.