hobby #122

Slide Whistle Tuning

Calibrating slide whistles for precise pitch by filing edge geometry, drilling tuning holes, and measuring resonance frequency with spectrum analysis. The intersection of woodwind acoustics, metalworking precision, and signal analysis — turning a novelty instrument into a calibrated musical tool.

Twelve Whistles and a Harmonic That Shouldn't Exist

Twelve whistles for fourteen dollars. I've spent two hours filing the fipple edge on one of them.

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Finding Notes Between the Samples Table Lookup with Interpolation

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