Clay Whistles... The Voice of Clay

by Janet Moniot

Spiral-bound: 56 pages
Publisher: The Whistle Press (1989)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0-9624893-0-1
Dimensions: 8.0" x 6.75" x 0.5"
Shipping Weight: 0.26 lbs.

A how-to book on making clay whistles and ocarinas (including the "sweet potato").

From the Author:
"There is something wonderful about coaxing sound out of a piece of clay. You mold this magical mud into a closed hollow form. Allow it to dry a bit and then make two cuts, carefully shaped and placed. You blow through the mouthpiece, and out comes music—music from some earth you shaped with your own hands. After all this time it still amazes me to hear the voice of clay."

This book is a collection of observations from the past twelve years of what works, or doesn't work, when making whistles (or ocarinas). Some of these come from my own experience, some come from adaptations of technical advice, given by some of my musician friends (who helped to standardize fingering and other incidental things like that). There was no one complete source of information on making clay whistles."