During February 2008 I made a new handmade instrument each day.
Made from a turnip, held together with toothpicks. It sounds like this.
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Yesterday I went to a whistle workshop, so today I thought it was time to make a whistle out of a walnut shell.

On the inside there’s a piece cut from another walnut shell which directs air from the hole at the end up to the fipple.

It sounds like this:
walnutwhistle.mp3
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