Best unusual whistle material

glauber · Post by **glauber** » Tue Jul 27, 2004 8:38 am

TelegramSam · Post by **TelegramSam** » Tue Jul 27, 2004 8:45 am

I've been told you can make an ocarna out of a breadroll with hard crust, so why not a whistle? You could use one of those long french baguettes!

JessieK · Post by **JessieK** » Tue Jul 27, 2004 8:46 am

I would LOVE a whistle made out of amber.

Paul · Post by **Paul** » Tue Jul 27, 2004 8:50 am

JessieK wrote:I would LOVE a whistle made out of amber.

That would be something. Or a flute. Do you thing there are any pieces long enough? If not I suppose you could use some kind of epoxy to glue pieces together until you had a length. It could be done.
-Paul

IDAwHOa · Post by **IDAwHOa** » Tue Jul 27, 2004 8:55 am

MarkB wrote:.... The cobs are bio-degradable and I could probably fine a source in every city and town on this continent at any time of the year.

MarkB

And they could be used for emergency......well, they would have other uses beside for whistles.

vomitbunny · Post by **vomitbunny** » Tue Jul 27, 2004 12:25 pm

You forgot hard cheese. Shin bones too.

seisflutes · Post by **seisflutes** » Tue Jul 27, 2004 3:43 pm

Garden hose! Good for playing around corners.

-Kelly

Loren · Post by **Loren** » Tue Jul 27, 2004 4:06 pm

JessieK wrote:I would LOVE a whistle made out of amber.

Yeah, that would be cool! Might be a real bitch to make though

Something to think about though.

Loren

emmline · Post by **emmline** » Tue Jul 27, 2004 4:13 pm

Amber with genuine dinosaur DNA permanently embedded in the fipple.

amar · Post by **amar** » Tue Jul 27, 2004 4:14 pm

oh my god, that would be so cool...

Loren · Post by **Loren** » Tue Jul 27, 2004 4:39 pm

hmm, ya think there's a movie in there somewhere?

Loren

happyturkeyman · Post by **happyturkeyman** » Wed Jul 28, 2004 2:08 am

Yeah a bone whistle would be cool.

Wombat · Post by **Wombat** » Wed Jul 28, 2004 2:47 am

Nobody's suggested hashish yet. I'm puzzled.

Walden · Post by **Walden** » Wed Jul 28, 2004 2:56 am

glauber wrote:
emmline wrote:Of course, if it could be obtained legally, and without killing anything, I'd take ivory.
Well, you could go talk to an elephant and ask, politely. Sometimes it works. Be careful what you say, though. They never forget!

Larkinam was offering stringed-instrument picks made from mammoth ivory. They've also offered hardanger fiddles with mammoth ivory inlay, I think. A whistle made of that would be a real conversation piece. A really, really, expensive conversation piece. However, I've heard that wooly mammoths are not a renewable resource. Then again, who knows, when I was a child, Big Bird, on Sesame Street had a friend in Mr. Snuffleupagus, but no one believed he existed. Later, no doubt due to advice of child psychologists or the like, they had people start believing Big Bird that he existed, so who knows? Maybe wooly mammoths actually are a renewable resource, at least in inner-city New York.

Loren · Post by **Loren** » Wed Jul 28, 2004 9:14 am

Legal Ivory (from both Mammoths and Elephants) is available in sufficient qantities to make whistles from, it's just extremely expensive and hard to come by. We make (elephant) Ivory instruments now and then, and they do sound excellent, although I wouldn't say the sound is "better" than wood.

For the record, I am vigorously opposed to the killing (or injuring) of animals for the purpose of harvesting parts to make trinkets out of, musical instruments included. The only Ivory that's legal to use these days, is Ivory that was taken many years ago, before the laws changed and protections were put in place, which I absolutely support.

Loren

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