Low Whistle Parts

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Block insert and outer shroud must craft a low-D PVC Tinwhistle/Pennywhistle together. Low D is the first note above middle C on a piano. Requires 24 inches of three-quarter inch PVC pipe, SDR21 grade, thin wall, don't use schedule 40. Handle print speed carefully, otherwise it will deform. Get very thin, watery superglue for this. Print Settings Printer Brand: Printer: Prusa i3 custom Rafts: Doesn't matter Supports: Doesn't matter Resolution: 0.1 millimeter Infill: 25 percent Notes: Handle print speed carefully. Post-Printing Assembling a pennywhistle requires these steps. Cut three-quarter inch PVC pipe to about twenty-four inches long. Using a hacksaw, cut out one-half by one point four-three inches rectangular slot on one end of the PVC pipe. Using a file, shape a ramp for the windway as shown in the photos. Clean up pieces from the printer before assembling. Slide the insert with its one-half inch notch aligned with the one-half inch notch. Then slide the outer shroud piece over the PVC pipe and align the one-half inch notch too. The diagonal portion should face away from the pipe. Place lips of two pieces in airway hole. Try to get a sound out of it when you are happy with the sound, secure the two pieces using superglue. Then, using a tuner, find out what note you get. Trim away from the bottom until you get well-tuned low-D note. Time to make tone holes: I'm giving diameters of the holes in inches and positions from the bottom to centers of each hole in inches too. Note, you might have to tweak hole diameter a little after drilling, also clean up plastic bits on the other side of the hole. For Low-D: Fifteen-sixty-four inch at 101 millimeter Seven-sixteenth inch at 146 millimeter Three-eighth inch at 163 millimeter Five-sixteenths inch at 222 millimeter Three-eighths inch at 256 millimeter Three-eighths inch at 295 millimeter For other keys with this design, check "Low Whistle Makers Anthology". Designing History: I originally designed PVC whistle using PVC fittings and a block of acetal cut out on the lathe in 1998. I've been making whistles since then. The age of three-dimensional printers has made the most difficult part of pennywhistle easy to make.