Clay Whistle!

I've wanted to try making a clay ocarina for years, this week I finally had a go at the first stage. Making a basic multi-tone clay whistle.

I spent 2 hours yesterday trying to make one and at the end of it, I had a low muffled single tone whistle.

So I looked up more info on the internet and various techniques for making them and today I tried again with a bit more success.

It still wasn't easy but after another hour or so of fiddling I had a working whistle!
Then a bit later I had 2 working whistles!




Excuse the sound quality, it's more a reflection of recording on my phone than a fault of the whistles.

For anyone interested in making a clay whistle, I found this site invaluable!
And this guy on youtube was very useful too.

They helped me understand how the whistle works so I could see where I was going wrong.
A lot of trial and error was still involved in making my whistles work but now I've got this far I want to see if I can move on and make a properly tuned ocarina.

More Wind Chimes!

This time it's wind chimes created by my own hand.
Most of these will be available to buy in The Nest in the next few days!

A dragonfly.



A cute caterpillar.



Some fishes.



and a small version of the caterpillar, though you can't tell from the photo.



Some of them are so cute it's hard to part with them! XD"

Wind Chime Workshop

The five lovely ladies on my first wind chime workshop did a great job making and glazing their chimes, take a look!
















They look and sound great!

If you'd like to make your own wind chime, the next workshop dates are 12th and 19th March 1pm-4pm.
Cost is £30 per person and includes tea and cake. To book please contact The Nest.