Customizable Tin Whistle for any key / Tuning - Free 3D Print Model

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Bb pipe + headpiece 0.2mm layer, 2 walls, 15% infill

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C pipe + headpiece 0.2mm layer, 2 walls, 15% infill

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Welcome back witches and wizards!

I made this nearly universal tin whistle. I wanted to create a way to make any tin whistle in any tuning to be 3d printed. After many prototypes I came up with a quite good mouthpiece that can be adapted to all kind of pipes with the diameter of 15mm. So I created a customisable openSCAD file with which you can choose your tuning.

It consists always of a pipe and a head piece.

Ready as print file are:

C-Major (can be used as D minor)

D- Major (can be used as E minor)

Eb-Major (can be used as F minor)

E-Major (can be used as Fb minor)

Bb-Major (can be used as C minor)

These ones I tested and the tuning is quite good. They are based on Guido Gonzatos work on PVC Whistles (https://www.guidogonzato.it/whistle/). Thank you for this great effort and great build guide!

Other tunings are roughly created with

https://music.bracker.uk/Music/Whistle-Calculator.html

Just open the customiser for custom tunings, please make sure to download the right mouth piece for every pipe (listed as files here). I have 50mm, 100mm and 150mm.

The ones I tried are pretty decent, please let me know if some work or don’t work, I might change that in the code in the future.

Please Feedback me if it works, or have suggestions for the customisability. I have some future ideas so stay tuned!

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Printing:

For every Whistle I created one print profile. I am afraid most of the flutes are too big for a A1 Mini. Make sure to use a clean built plate and a big brim (i used 20mm and super tack).

Use tree supports for the mouth piece, it is essential that it is printed clean to create a proper sound.

You need to activate Arachne wall mode, otherwise the sharp edge (labulum) won’t be sharp enough.

Assembling

Assembly is easy, just stick the head piece and the pipe together.

Make sure to remove every single bit of support from the head piece, it will affect the sound massively! Also make sure you stick the headpiece as far as possible on the pipe. Yes the pipe is a bit hard to fit into the mouthpiece but I found, that the sound is best when the headpiece fits very tight on the pipe.

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