How to make simple DIY whistles

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  • Опубликовано: 8 фев 2025

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  • @lookolookthefox
    @lookolookthefox 3 года назад +76

    This has become one of my favorite channels, and criminally underrated at that. Interesting videos, talented guy, great presentation and a very nice voice to listen to!

  • @jared9108
    @jared9108 3 года назад +13

    I made a basic flute with the CD’s I had some PVC laying around after making a didgeridoo and it was the perfect addition to my wind instruments. Thank you so much for your videos I can wait for what’s next and what might give me inspiration.

  • @AllosaurusNOOB
    @AllosaurusNOOB 6 дней назад

    i made a nice ocarina using the CD whistle and a drilled can. thanks for the inspiration man

  • @erickmontero3408
    @erickmontero3408 2 года назад +43

    I need a video about the aeolian flutes that sound with movement plssss!!! Really want to make one!!!!! I'm in love with your work

    • @NicolasBras
      @NicolasBras  2 года назад +22

      I'm working on it!

    • @vaaalsongs4867
      @vaaalsongs4867 2 года назад +6

      @@NicolasBras Yes please!! Such a cool concept.

    • @cudabass43572
      @cudabass43572 2 года назад +6

      I would love to have a blueprint on the aeolian flute that you spin.

  • @jaybraithwaite6839
    @jaybraithwaite6839 Год назад +4

    Haven’t seen a film container for so long. Flood of memory from such a simple item. I can still feel the feeling of popping the top off. Haha wild. 6:08

  • @Kikouk69
    @Kikouk69 3 года назад +5

    Oh ! Je faisais toujours le sifflet avec mes vieilles pellicules photos étant gosse ! Merci de me replonger dans mon enfance !
    Et j'ai adoré les différents whistles que tu as présenté, la plupart que je connaissais pas ! Je vais m'éclater...

  • @therealwobblychair0483
    @therealwobblychair0483 3 года назад +15

    Incredible. Thank you for making this. Going out on a limb here, but I’ve been playing slide whistle karaoke on RUclips and Twitch for 6 years now. Thought you might appreciate it. Peace.

  • @Check_Vibe0
    @Check_Vibe0 3 года назад +34

    Definitely gonna experiment with the CD one
    Update: I use clothespins to the hood them together(they work enough for good sound) to change pitch. And I noticed the sound is nice out of a cardboard christmas wrapping paper tube
    Thank you! You made me see music in items I would've thrown out

    • @NicolasBras
      @NicolasBras  3 года назад +4

      That's the point, experimentations!

  • @tufoskate
    @tufoskate 3 года назад +3

    CD flute...i make flutes on 11 years, but, no think this possibilite. Is very amazing for work to students and childrens. Congratulations for your job! Hugs from Brazil.

  • @Raku777
    @Raku777 3 года назад +7

    The CD flute is another amazing discovery you have made!

  • @videogalore
    @videogalore Год назад

    Just found your channel and really got lost in some of these videos - thank you!

  • @rodriguezrs
    @rodriguezrs 3 года назад +1

    Excellent! Always a good day to get a notification from your channel.

  • @danielleohallisey4218
    @danielleohallisey4218 3 года назад +1

    I’ve been binging your videos for awhile now, and still haven’t seen you blink! 😊

    • @NicolasBras
      @NicolasBras  3 года назад +2

      I cut a lot, my english isn't good enough to assume long phrases!

    • @danielleohallisey4218
      @danielleohallisey4218 3 года назад

      @@NicolasBras seriously wasn't being critical; love your work and find it inspirational!

  • @toddstewart4404
    @toddstewart4404 4 месяца назад +1

    Good survival whistles from the soda can and tin can lid! 👍

  • @MarkMcCluney
    @MarkMcCluney 3 года назад +12

    You cut up a film can? Oh man, that's a priceless antique! We used to make those from little tin cans when I was a wee boy. Also bullroarers from wooden rulers (but we didn't know they were called bullroarers!) Cheers mate, this was terrific. Now, where are my scissors?

    • @bigboybeni
      @bigboybeni 3 года назад +2

      nice! kids get so inventive whenever they’re bored. also i love your sow’s ear dulcimerette saga :)

    • @MarkMcCluney
      @MarkMcCluney 3 года назад

      @@bigboybeni Thank you Beni! I'm very glad to hear that. I hope you'll take a look at some of my other vids, I think they will make you smile. Cheers mate and stay healthy.

  • @victorchanalet9592
    @victorchanalet9592 3 года назад +3

    Truly incredible what you can do

  • @Moefongoe
    @Moefongoe 4 месяца назад

    I fell into a rabbit hole n i found the light at the end of the tunnel! Thank you so much for these! Insta sub

  • @rev.bobertbockstop7057
    @rev.bobertbockstop7057 Год назад +1

    The intense look on your face gets me. You are like my mildly insane uncle Jeb I had growing up who stood around looking intense but told hilarious filthy jokes with a straight face and could fix anything, lawn mowers, car engines, tractors, toasters, my broken guitar, grandma’s refrigerator, my cat’s broken leg, the local Methodist church bell etc.) I love your channel. Thanks for so much entertainment and wizardry.

  • @dmor6696
    @dmor6696 2 года назад +3

    very nice! i was hoping for some kids friendly build, for them to build it themselves, but the cutting can be done by the adults and the rest by them
    thanks!!

  • @myrablack2337
    @myrablack2337 3 года назад

    Never thought i would have an interest in whistles but it was really cool.

  • @brandonmrgichmusic6236
    @brandonmrgichmusic6236 2 года назад

    About to make these and send them into alchemy, gonna sound super cool.

  • @longdongsilver4719
    @longdongsilver4719 Год назад

    Un sommet de créativité. Bravo!

  • @LeVraiPoio
    @LeVraiPoio 3 года назад +5

    Hrm, these aerial flutes, and the mystery item whistle. Interesting. Now I want to try rigging something with a diabolo.

  • @yidy1
    @yidy1 2 года назад

    Dude, you and your ideas are just amazing!

  • @michaelsmusicinstruments9980
    @michaelsmusicinstruments9980 3 года назад +2

    I love this creative channel

  • @censusgary
    @censusgary 2 года назад

    How to make a survival whistle, when you’re lost in the wilderness with only a roomful of tools and supplies.
    Thumbs way up!

  • @bgj2940
    @bgj2940 3 года назад +10

    Legit... As always! Have you ever done anything with a Hurdy Gurdy?

  • @frankH117
    @frankH117 3 года назад

    OMG! so much information about whistles, thank you for sharing all of that with us! I will try to make the CD flute. very entertaining!!

  • @marisadallavalle393
    @marisadallavalle393 Год назад

    Survival whistles! Perfect!

  • @dfu1685
    @dfu1685 Год назад

    Yes! Just what I was looking for and Awesome video work also!

  • @TimbreAudio
    @TimbreAudio Год назад

    I love whistles!❤👍

  • @MarkArrand-cf4cl
    @MarkArrand-cf4cl 10 месяцев назад

    I used to hunt Quail and I made a Quail call to aid in this. It was a small piece on metal bent in half with a piece of glossy magazine page for the diaphragm. When blown through easy, it reproduced the call of a Quail when in the proper cadence.

  • @RtyuiAEIOU
    @RtyuiAEIOU Год назад

    cool man! back in early 90s during school sports day i think there was a diy whistle made from a film container + balloon + marker pen but i couldnt remember how to make it again haha

  • @milododds1
    @milododds1 3 года назад +2

    Yes I loved your Death Whistle...that was so cool. I should show you how to make a quail call that my dad taught me how to make when I was a kid. I taught our local Cub Scout how to make them and they loved them. I'm sure you could turn it into a musical instrument, it vibrates a rubber band between two halves of a branch with other rubber bands wrapped on both ends. It's super easy to make but it sounds pretty cool and very similar to your CD/Can flute.

    • @NicolasBras
      @NicolasBras  3 года назад

      Sure, would love to learn!

    • @milododds1
      @milododds1 3 года назад

      I will try to make a video over the weekend, I know I have one and I had my son make one. It’s pretty simple but I think in the hands of a master like yourself, you might be apply to an apply the concept into what you’re doing.

    • @milododds1
      @milododds1 3 года назад

      @@NicolasBras Ok I still haven't found the Quail Calls that I've made but they look just like what this guy made in his video except I cut the rubber band after tuning it. ruclips.net/video/aooYTCv078k/видео.html

  • @DerEnte_Official
    @DerEnte_Official 3 года назад

    love it!

  • @emaairala6559
    @emaairala6559 3 года назад +2

    FELICITACIONES, HERMOSOS TRABAJOS, GRACIAS POR COMPARTIRLO. SALUDOS 🇺🇾

  • @aeperez7172
    @aeperez7172 2 года назад

    amazing music!

  • @Cobeiro
    @Cobeiro 3 года назад

    Nice one. Great vídeo as always

  • @lesuu
    @lesuu 3 года назад

    Thanks for sharing this. Wonderfully creative ideas!

  • @damiengauci9898
    @damiengauci9898 3 года назад

    T es vidéos sont juste trop cool je trouve j adore

  • @AnaFolkenstal
    @AnaFolkenstal 6 месяцев назад

    The CD flute, ahhaha. amazingly creative

  • @terrynewberg5732
    @terrynewberg5732 3 года назад

    👏🏻👏🏻Fun assortment of of flutes and I enjoy your of humor about them 😄😄❤️

  • @howardgil7200
    @howardgil7200 Год назад

    Amazing! congrats on your good work and thanks for sharing.

  • @wooden_lord
    @wooden_lord Год назад

    That's what they should teach in music lessons in schools - to talk about how you can make musical instruments yourself. And who needs to sing or play on something, then let them go to special music schools. I remember how we had simple singing, no frills. It was of little use. It would be better if they talked about notes, about the generation of sounds and the like, it would immediately become much more interesting.

  • @cyranoidemisanthrope553
    @cyranoidemisanthrope553 3 года назад +2

    Superbe travail de lutherie sauvage ! Et en plus je comprend l'anglais ici.

    • @TeacupTSauceror
      @TeacupTSauceror 3 года назад +1

      Lol I'm using these comments as French practice ^^

    • @RinceCochon
      @RinceCochon 3 года назад +1

      @@TeacupTSaucerorcela peut-être un bon entraînement, mais ils sont peu nombreux par ici ^^
      There's a lot more English speakers here.

  • @charliedalin3477
    @charliedalin3477 3 года назад

    Toujours excellent Nico

  • @mbahciss
    @mbahciss 2 года назад

    AMAZING WHISTLEMAN

  • @fleeb
    @fleeb 3 года назад +2

    "Ask your grandparents..." but... I'm only 54 years old, and I used those regularly when I worked as a photojournalist. Doesn't matter anyway, I don't have children.

  • @kashapotrohosh5161
    @kashapotrohosh5161 Год назад

    wow, majestic

  • @TheRealMaxPower
    @TheRealMaxPower 2 месяца назад

    Very good!

  • @kogilenpillay5856
    @kogilenpillay5856 3 года назад

    Mind blowing great stuff

  • @tiredoftorylies.2950
    @tiredoftorylies.2950 2 года назад

    Brilliant! 👏👏👏👏👏

  • @stevenanderson4515
    @stevenanderson4515 3 года назад +1

    To no offense of his accent, but I can't make out what kind of flute the spinning pvc kind is at 5:18. A diy on that would be cool. Really dig your vids man. Keep it up

    • @NicolasBras
      @NicolasBras  3 года назад

      Non taken! It is an aeolian flute, you can use the same building as the whistle with the three washers, just take a longer and larger pipe

  • @pradeepkumar-pr9oq
    @pradeepkumar-pr9oq 2 года назад

    Thanks for sharing

  • @ravevive
    @ravevive 10 месяцев назад

    😊❤ love this

  • @EeekItsSnek
    @EeekItsSnek Год назад

    Ive never heard the bell end of a pipe called a "tulip"
    Learn something new everyday!

  • @eficzek007
    @eficzek007 3 года назад

    Love the videos, keep it up!

  • @miserirken
    @miserirken Год назад

    Hey, a film roll case! i remember seeing how to make that whistle in a kids magazine back in the late 90s.

  • @PeterBlack-th6kr
    @PeterBlack-th6kr Год назад

    Very good

  • @sidneyclark4952
    @sidneyclark4952 2 года назад

    I just knew there was going to be a good ol’ acorn top featured in the list, alas I was mistaken. acorn tops are excellent whistles!

  • @ZA-mb5di
    @ZA-mb5di 2 года назад

    Fold a candy wrapper in half and squeeze the end really tight on either side and blow.
    This is how I learned grass whistling

  • @dineshartkodai4625
    @dineshartkodai4625 3 месяца назад

    VERY NICE

  • @lizhi4195
    @lizhi4195 2 месяца назад

    washesr in a pipe are like the little wistle on a kettele or double boiler to let you know that the water is boiling! (i played around too much with it as a kid and then mum magicaly "lost it" one day, so i couldn´t play it anymore :D ) also dog whisle is exactl the same principal as whisteling on your fingers works right? it sounded so similar

  • @hilariodaragona4473
    @hilariodaragona4473 8 месяцев назад

    Excelente!

  • @zinckensteel
    @zinckensteel 3 года назад

    You really need to do a collaboration with a builder of thermoacoustic engines - so many of your instruments could be adapted to function as part of one.

  • @thakyou5005
    @thakyou5005 2 года назад

    This guy will have 1m subs

  • @puffthecatpuff8931
    @puffthecatpuff8931 Год назад

    Not a whistle, but find a mini fridge, with a tray that collects condensation.
    When it comes time to defrost it, let it melt, and once it's loose, take out the ice sheet, and drop it on a hard surface. The sound it makes is like breaking glass.

  • @benjamminwemyss9635
    @benjamminwemyss9635 3 года назад

    your such a cool guy

  • @androofroo
    @androofroo 3 года назад

    Haha… I have the same problem collecting instruments. Excellent.

  • @ggv2001
    @ggv2001 3 года назад

    sos un capo!

  • @NemoKripton
    @NemoKripton Год назад

    Please make an ocarina from a flat plastic bottle. A whistle can be made by gluing two rectangular plastic plates with cutouts onto a bottle, according to the principle: “Like three DVD discs.”

  • @josemarcosmartinena
    @josemarcosmartinena 3 года назад +2

    Siento que este tipo debe tomar mucha agua Despus de usar tantos instrumentos de viento

  • @kevinmencer3782
    @kevinmencer3782 Год назад

    In the first one, can you loosen and tension the strip to vary the pitch?

  • @marionecks3645
    @marionecks3645 3 года назад +1

    Neat! I tried to come up with a joke and AOL because of the modem noise and CD but its not connecting...
    Anyways cool video thanks for sharing your knowledge.

  • @mrey4154
    @mrey4154 3 года назад +1

    genius and so funny!

  • @lemonpepperdry5818
    @lemonpepperdry5818 2 года назад

    Hours of fun for the whole family.

  • @jimsim3
    @jimsim3 3 года назад

    good stuff, Shepherds in wales been using them tin can whistles while they work, or is that whistle whistle you work, mmmm

  • @archloy
    @archloy Год назад

    ça me rappelle les sifflets que mon père m'a souvent décrits, faits par le sien (mais il lui a jamais expliqué comment faire), c'était un simple bois vert de l'année (lisse, genre noisetier), coupé de biais dont l'écorce est décollée du bois (assez simple, il faut couper tout le tour, et tourner l'écorce, elle vient assez facilement, ou très mal, c'est tout ou rien :) ). Il semble qu'il enlevait une lamelle le long du bout de bois, une fois l'écorce détachée et remettait l'écorce en place. Ça amusait les gosses :). je pense que l'air fait vibrer l'écorce et produit le son. Si jamais ça t'intéresse, n'hésites pas à en faire une vidéo ! J'ai jamais réussi (mais j'ai 2 mains droites, ça n'aide pas). Et désolé pour le pavé en français alors que tu fais l'effort, mais là, y'a trop de mots que je ne maîtrise pas en anglais !

  • @technomama1
    @technomama1 9 месяцев назад

    Thank you, I will try to build old-school rubber toy squeaker.

  • @serafettintan4329
    @serafettintan4329 Год назад

    Thank you.Can you make a tea kettle whistle? And use two plates in it, simple materials like washers,metal bottle caps, without glue. (soldering ok)
    Only whistle part not the whole cap.

  • @mojocollins1725
    @mojocollins1725 2 года назад

    Hey man, saw your video and spent the next 3 days trying to find them again. Aeolian Flute, PLEASE explain how to make one or their origin. Anything about them because when I Google about them I can't find the right stuff. stay well!

  • @SSRT_JubyDuby8742
    @SSRT_JubyDuby8742 3 года назад

    Nice 👌

  • @dlopezchampion8054
    @dlopezchampion8054 Год назад

    Whats is good flat whistle?
    Or whistle that I can put on pole?

  • @maugli0017
    @maugli0017 3 года назад +1

    How does called that snall spinning thing

  • @Caracolenpaz
    @Caracolenpaz 3 года назад

    ¡¡¡¡Muchas Gracias!!!!

  • @timinamen1217
    @timinamen1217 Год назад

    Can I use the PVC pipe without the tulip? Can it be straight?

  • @talabaotube
    @talabaotube 3 года назад

    Haha ! Que du bonheur ! Merci ;-)

  • @hyugo244
    @hyugo244 2 года назад

    Hello Nicolas, could you please explain how to build a PVC eolian flute (5:29) I believe people love it! Thanks!
    -
    Bonjour Nicolas, serait-ce possible d'avoir une vidéo sur la conception de l'eolian flute (5:29) je crois qu'il y a une forte demande ! Merci !

  • @33akachi10
    @33akachi10 2 года назад

    the cd flute? yo...that is dope. Because acquiring a good flute embouchure is so damn difficult.

  • @ReynaldoChristian-z1n
    @ReynaldoChristian-z1n Месяц назад

    please answer me.... so for aeolian PVC, i just need to glue 3 washer to the end of a long PVC ? Please im doing experiment

  • @peterkerkelov
    @peterkerkelov 2 года назад +1

    Does anybody know what the shaken whistle on 00:07 is called?

  • @hifijohn
    @hifijohn 9 месяцев назад

    I have to try the CD one, and I have plenty of old CDs I never listen to.

  • @RodolfoLimacbx
    @RodolfoLimacbx 2 года назад +1

    *Probably some people came to see **5:15** **_(and some seconds before)_*

  • @eric3skywalker913
    @eric3skywalker913 9 месяцев назад

    Tried the washer whistle with washers of different sizes and doesn't seem to work, is there a ratio between diameter and washer hole diameter that works or a max diameter that works or a relationship between hole size and washer distance?

  • @pawlaflaming3448
    @pawlaflaming3448 3 года назад

    Fantastique

  • @aqueduct8428
    @aqueduct8428 3 года назад

    the cd whistle looks like sometihng from a post apocalyptic game like fallout, im totally trying that

  • @badmood88
    @badmood88 3 года назад

    Do you have a clever way to make a nice feeling mouthpiece for woodwind instruments? I am making a electronic woodwind using a pressure sensor. I was thinking of just taking to bits a plastic recorder but I am looking for other ways to do it.

  • @RLDeMerritt
    @RLDeMerritt 3 года назад

    Dial-Up... Nostalgia

  • @letai_indie
    @letai_indie 3 года назад +1

    Где можно найти фоновую музыку?

  • @miscellaneoushardwarechick1001
    @miscellaneoushardwarechick1001 3 года назад

    Hey Nicolas, do you use stationary drills or a drill press? Carbide end mills and a soft-jaw vice have helped me achieve any angle in PVC.