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Chameleon Chameleon design

Chance meeting leads to a Creative Collaboration

For me designing the MK Low Whistle was a solitary affair: days, weeks, months and then years of slowly refining a process.    When I did eventually start work on the Toob, MK’s chromatic whistle, I was working in exactly the same way that I always had been – on my own.  It was while […]

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Chameleon Chameleon design

A Chromatic Whistle?

I always found it amazing that there wasn’t some form of chromatic whistle.  I mean this is arguably the worlds oldest melodic musical instrument.  Why would it be left out when almost all the other commonly thought of musical instruments are Chromatic.  The number of times that I’d be playing, the music would change key […]

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Introducing the Toob

So I’ve been working on a project to create a chromatic whistle for roughly six years.  It’s a typically long and protracted process for designing a musical instrument, but like so many of the things I’ve been involved with in the last few years, it might be taking longer than expected but it is actually […]