G'day brucie,

honi soit qui mal y pense ... (It just means LIP!)

jack halyard: The PVC tubing I have is 25.2 od and 21.2 id. I don't know of an Australian equivalent to brucie's "PVC Schedule 40 pipe" - presumably a 1" PVC tubing with thick (~ 2.7 mm) walls ... nor have I ever struck anything like his "PVC joiner" ... but I'm going to go looking for them, as they would make it a hell of a lot easier to make whistles with round labia!

I suppose that, while we are talking about cobbling up a PVC shakuhachi, it's not really appropriate to nip up the Blue Mts and ask shakuhachi master Riley Lee ... ? (I think he'll be down in Sydney at the moment, performing with the Taiko Drummers ... Now there's contrast in volume and sound ... )

Regards,

Bob