mk Whistles 
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… […]
We’ve created a MK Soundcloud which we’ll be adding to over time. If you’d like to send us any music made with Mk whistles with then visit our Soundcloud and use the ‘send track’ button to the right of the Mk logo.
Dear Mk music, This past week I was invited to Thailand to be a part of multi-cultural band that would provide music at the international meetings of a Christian charity organization. Although the band was mostly modern instruments, I was invited to provide a more ethnic “color” using various whistles, flutes and other instruments I […]
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…
The West Coast of Scotland has to be one of the most amazing places in the world. All year I had been looking forward to another few weeks exploring it on a very special little ship, The Hippo-owned by a friend. Sailing ensures that things aren’t seen to quickly and the world goes by a […]
At a festival a few years back several of us were playing late at night; well really early in the morning–about 2 AM. Two of us were on whistles, lo D and either A or hi D, and were improvising harmonies to the slow tunes we were playing. There was a hammered dulcimer (a fine […]
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 […]