mk Whistles 
Here’s a first draft of a Datasheet for the Mk Low D. What do you think? Is there any info which isn’t there but could be useful? Any inaccuracies? Please use the comments to let us know what you think – your feedback is much appreciated.
After Brian’s excellent posts last week here’s a small video of an audacious idea. What do you think? Could it work?
Following on from yesterday’s post on the ‘Family Tree’ of design options for the Toob keys, I’d like to talk you through; This concept sees the spring which holds the key shut, not as an additional component, but as being integral to the structure of the key; The sketch above explores the extreme case where […]
Greetings once again from the MK-workshop, despite the relative radio silence on these pages on the subject of the Toob chromatic whistle, things have been ticking over. Now seems like the right time to get the work we’ve done out there and get some feedback on some of the ideas, so I hope you’ll get […]
This is the first of a series of posts where we aim to throw open the doors to what’s going on in the mk workshop to let the community (that’s you) in, to encourage, chastize, criticise and suggest, or whatever you feel.. These sketches are really purely aesthetic, we have a number of functional ideas […]
An interesting set of pictures sent in by Christian Cless. What do you think? Would this solve a problem for people that find reaching that bottom hole a challange? Please let us know what you think [ comments below]
I thought I’d just follow up on Misha’s post about our search for inspiration for the “toob”. Last Christmas holidays I happened to be heading through Berlin to Italy to visit the in-laws – no direct flights from Scotland to Venice, it seems we Scots are condemned to only visit the south of Spain cheaply… […]
Misha has asked me to write a brief introduction to myself for the “toob” blog, to describe my background and interest in the project,and after him being so nice about me and all, I thought I’d better put out my side of the story.. so here goes…
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 […]
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 […]