Thursday, March 19, 2015

Clay Whistles - will they whistle?

Just before Spring Break we made whistles from clay.  This is much harder than it looks.  It's not so hard to make the whistles - but it's really challenging to make them have a whistle sound.  We were at least 95% successful in doing this, possibly due to some good youtube vidoes on making clay whistles. The air we blow in has to split with some going out the top and some going into the clay chamber in order to make sound.  Here is a photo of the first batch drying on a shelf in the art room. We will begin painting them with non-toxic acrylic paint after the bisque firing and I'll post photos of the finished work.  And maybe we can get a little video of sound happening!