Whittlin' Whistles: How to Make Music with Your Pocket Knife
By Rick Wiebe
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Rick Wiebe
Rick Wiebe has been whittling for over 60 years, and his pieces are in private collections worldwide. Wiebe teaches whittling and carving to adults and children ages 9 and up. Wiebe has written articles on carving for Carving Magazine and Woodcarving Illustrated, and he is the author of Whittlin' Whistles and Classic Whittling. Wiebe lives in Westbank, British Columbia.
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Whittlin' Whistles - Rick Wiebe
Whittlin’ Whistles
How to Make Music with your Pocket Knife
By Rick Wiebe
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© Rick Wiebe
Cover design: James Goold
Design and layout: Maura J. Zimmer
Photography by Rick Wiebe
ISBN: 978-1-61035-159-1
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Wiebe, Rick.
Whittlin’ whistles : how to make music with your pocketknife / by Rick Wiebe. p. cm.
ISBN: 978-1-61035-159-1
1. Wood-carving. 2. Whistles. I. Title. II. Title: Whittling whistles.
TT199.7.W535 2012
736’.4--dc23
2011049852
Linden Publishing, Inc.
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chapimage.pngContents
Introduction
Chapter 1: Learn to Whittle
Chapter 2: The Classic Slip Bark Whistle
Chapter 3: Other Fipple Whistles
Chapter 4: Reed Whistles
Chapter 5: Tube Whistles Without a Fipple
Chapter 6: Fipple Flute
Chapter 7: The Kazoo
Chapter 8: Wilderness Trumpet or Vuvuzela
About the Author
secimage.pngimgvi.pngchapimage.pngIntroduction
Iwant to introduce you to an activity that can interest you for a lifetime. Whittlin’ is enjoyed by people of all ages, and is a terrific hobby for kids and parents or kids and grandparents or all of the above to do together.
Whittlin’ can be a part of so many things. You can listen to music, participate in a conversation, wait out a traffic jam, speed up
a ferry ride, even study for an exam or build a relationship while making something with a knife. In fact, for fidgety young people, it can be a real help in having them slow down to listen and learn things that may be totally unrelated to the carving process.
I have been whittlin’ for a long time—over 55 years. This is kind of frightening for me to contemplate, but that’s the way it is. Often when I am whittlin’, people stop and talk. They ask about the wood, comment on the sharpness of my knife and frequently say, Makin’ a whistle?
Often I am not, but the fact that they assume I am means that whistle making is just something that is expected of whittlers.
Kids love whistles, and why not? They make noise! And if there is one thing that kids love to do it is to make noise! I have made thousands of whistles for kids and they all love them. Their parents; maybe not