"You've probably heard this sound before" *Opens the gates of hell*

I wonder if it would be possible to hook a bunch of death whistles to an organ and make a song just of screaming

The guy who made the one at 2:58 has the probably the best and most realistic tone of any of the ones that I've heard. He got that thing spot on.

Your death whistle just doesn't sound like someone screaming. It just sounds like angry wind.

I remember wasting an entire week and 2 pounds of good quality clay trying to make that whistle. In the end, it worked with the cheapest and most low-tech stuff possible: trash.

Imagine secretly bringing one of these with you on a camping trip with your buddys and blowing this is the middle of the night

what I’m seeing in the bisected diagram you showed is that it mimics the shape of a human mouth and throat. I think if you made a curved resonance chamber you would get a much more scream-like sound. Great video, thanks for the content!

Don't concern yourself with coming across as if you're mocking. In the first 2 minutes you appraise the sound, breaking it down into noise, flute, and its other component parts. You're obviously approaching this from a creative standpoint, trying to better understand what they did. Great stuff!

I understand the death whistle's purpose is to make a noise that frightens the enemy. That's also the purpose of a bagpipe - they are forbidden by the Geneva Convention for use as a weapon of war.

The little metal thing he had in the beginning sounded more like the actual whistle than all of the pvc ones he made.

Bought a 3D printed one off Amazon and that thing gives me chills even when I’m the one making the sound. It sounds like a brutally disembodied spirit desperately trying to escape whatever hell is surely close behind.

An air compressor can also blow these whistles. I hooked two 3D printed death whistles up to a rig with a remote controlled valve and hooked the rig up to an air compressor. I used it on Trick or Treat when I was handing out candy. I hid the death whistle rig and air compressor on my porch and, as I opened the door with the candy bowl in hand, I pressed the button to activate the death whistles. The best reaction I got was when three boys came to the door. Two of them turned around and ran away immediately and the third looked left, looked right, then turned and ran the moment he realized his friends were gone. Their fathers, standing out in the street, thought it was hilarious. I then called the boys back and gave them their candy, and gave them more candy when they came back again. The kids loved the death whistles too, after they got over being scared of them. The contraption now sits on top of my boss's office, hooked up to an industrial air compressor now. Every once in a while we hit the button to see who we can get to jump.

but the whole point of the death whistle is that its sound is the literal sound of a person screaming like they were being brutally murdered

I don't think it's as close to death whistle just yet.

Props to this guy citing his inspiration and clearly laying out his intentions for the project!

Xavier: So this is a death whistle.*blows whistle* Audience: Oh my... Xavier: Now this is a death tuba.

Interesting. Sounds similar to when I was a kid, we used to blow on a blade of green grass held between the thumbs and the side of both palms to make it whistle. If you blew too hard, you sometimes got a similar sound until the grass broke.

I don't recommend watching this video at two in the morning, while in bed and someone is sleeping behind you, no matter how much you lower the volume on your phone the screaming part is so loud it will definitely wake them up and earn you a slap on the face.. I do not recommend this.. Source, I just got slapped

You definitely didn't get close enough to stop experimenting. I think the progress is interesting, but this warrants more videos and more experimentation. Right now your whistle sounds interesting, but it also sounds entirely different.

I can totally see the effect this would have in the field. If you were a war party marching through the rainforest, and you heard the ghostly screams surrounding you, that would be terrifying, as they probably wouldn't have known they were just whistles, and superstition was way more powerful a thing back then.

Its the most terrifying thing to be made into an air raid siren.

nice flutes but man it feels like you missed the point at the end, we call it a death whistle because at first it sounds like someone crying out in agony

"You may have heard this sound before." Proceeds to violently kill a goat. ... ... Alright then.

😄This made my morning. Always a joy to people having fun making things. Thank You.👍

I don't hear any of the screeching/screaming sound in your death whistles, like with the first guy's. sorry.

Super creative! I am a little happier right now as well! Lol! Keep up the good work! Greetings from Greece

Oh, I really liked videos from that ancient instrument expert. I didn’t realize he passed away. His videos scratched such a niche curiosity of mine and gave such wonderful writing inspiration, time to go watch a bunch of his videos a again I suppose.

Thank you Nicolas! Your videos are free standing art as well as instructional and inspirational.

I made a death whistle and put his name on it a few months ago as a memorial to him. One of the best sounding ones I have so far. I think he blessed it 😂

When the quiet kid takes out his instrument.

It's nice to see someone obviously enjoying what he's doing. You must love pvc pipes.😊

5:43 This one sounds the best. A very eerie and cinematic sound

Two points: 1, the primary "bass" death-whistle pipe you first demonstrate sounds like a Giger Xenomorph Alien. 2, when my nose gets semi-stuffy on one side, I will sometimes plug the clear side with a finger and take a deep breath through the stuffy side. It sounds just like a death whistle.

I feel that a small vessel and a big resonator may sound closer to the clay model... Also maybe bevelling the vessel edges? Make the cavity asymetrical? I'll try some things...

4:44 yeah! I'd like that scream along with that hand gesture. Perfect match!

I love your respect to the culture! I am so happy i found your channel!

His local hardware store has to think he’s replumbing his home every month with all the pvc he goes through.

if I was going to war and my enemy started playing this I'd just go home

Very amazing bro, congrats for achieving the sound

5:44 that distant tonal whistle in the distance overcome by wind sound is eerie and phenomenal

this is not the greatest video to play in the middle of the night when the rest of the family is asleep

His curiosity and enthusiasm are very contagious

I'm incorporating a form of the death whistle in my Pokémon fangames. This version will be a key item called the Duskull Whistle. Basically, the Ghost-Types of the Region I'm creating just want to be left alone, so they become intangible (turn invisible with no collision) when you get too close. Blowing into the Duskull Whistle will get their attention and make them become tangible again.

Amazing. Thank you so much for making this video! 🤗

4:48 "Close to physical pain" **cries in headphone**

Very cool!! I always wondered how this system works and now It´s very clear. I will try soon!

I really love this. It’s very cool that you want to learn about these things and to learn about them. If you didn’t know what the sound was this would be terrifying. It really does sound like a group of screaming people.

This is freaking (freaky) cool!! I am all about discovering new sounds and soundscapes. I love what you're doing here. I think you could make the pipe slide to control the sound...like a trumpet/trombone.

You should edit clips from all of the different whistles together to see just how terrifying it sounds. Bonus points if you can do some really sour sounding intervals like diminished fifth or augmented fourth

The look your giving the camera is scarier than the death whistle sounds lol

That's an awesome job you did!

I like the way you speak English - it's better than the way I speak French, and French people have complained about that, due to my accent. I have no trouble pronouncing words in German, Russian, or Italian, however, but my mouth just will not form itself properly for French. You have inspired me to make my own death whistles. I bought a ceramic one to give to my brother for Christmas (2023), primarily to scare the children (next door to hour house in Palm Springs) who always scream when they play outdoors. I believe they are from the Agua Caliente tribe instead of Aztec.

2:40 this Brazilian guy tutorial Is the best Whistle, there's no other equal, no comparison...

That whistle would explain a lot of horror stories about screams in the woods.

Great content mate, really fine work and you present your show and yourself perfectly 👌🏻

man your creativity, knowledge and dedication is insane. Instant subbed. Amazing video, Thanks

Wowzers! I've read about these. Always wanted to hear one. I imagine the next trend in death metal. Cookie monsters out. Enter... Blood curdling shrieking, from FOAC = Fingers on a chalkboard. Or tune it to notes and play Christmas music.

Nicolas: this one is terrifying 4:44 **starts flipping me off**

I love death whistles! Great video

salut mec ta la meilleure chaine de fabrication d instruments a vent originaux. you are the best keep doing what you doing and I will keep watching thanks

I really hope these whistles become a thing in certain genres of music. Like, with some proper mixing it would be cool as a standard in many shoegaze pieces.

Can we get an update on whether or not you got one successfully created? Man, you were sooooo close!

Mexican here... Aztec culture used to create several whistles which sounds incredibly similar to natural sounds. My favourite is the jaguar whistle and this one from the vídeo. I recomend you to look for eagle and birds whistles

Noice little workshop you got there bud! Respect for your craftiness.

sounds like death, you made it!! (my favorite parts 2:54, 3:48, 4:22,) really nice video; I've never heard of this weird instrument before, but now I love it.

NONE of those sounded anything like the actual "death whistle" though........

Love your hard work

Cool collection.

Would be good for Black or Death metal and halloween music.

While there isn't that vocal quality like in the first one he still did a fantastic job getting the body of the sound! Very spooky

Wow! Awesome content man! Hi from Canada 🇨🇦.

Nicolas' DDW. The extra D stands for DDIY "What's _that_ extra D for?" "That's a typo"

Interesting! What about a howling whistle? or a growling one, it seems to me that your whistles are capable of that kinfd of sound. Great video!

After so much effort my expectations were hitting the rooftop and you succeeded to completely disappoint. Those sounds did sound nothing like the death whistle at the beginning, more like a vacuum cleaner.

I love the gentle sounds of Ocarinas.

Thumbs up for "somewhere over the rainbow" at 5:23

4:22 wither sound

Love all those instruments....

"Go on! there are only three of them!" "Its not the men we fear sir! Its the light breeze!"

It's 1 am I don't know how or why I got here but I don't like the fact that I did

I'm going to make one of these and use it on my truck as a backup indcator alarm. 😱 Thank you sir!

Fascinating!

alot of these sounds give me serious ghibli vibes, like in the scenes of flying ships in nausicaa and laputa.

3:49 killed me. lol XD

Im geting chills of this

First time seeing any of your videos you just gained a subscriber

No-one: KZfaq at 3 am: *building a DIY death whistle*

Everyone: screams Me: sounds like a vacuum

Playing one of these in the dead of night while a small group of people had a BBQ in the dark will forever be my most memorable pranking experience.

I am more of a guitar guy than a whistle/flute, but I have been listening to some Jethro Tull lately, and winter is coming, maybe a flute project of some sort is in my future. - Cheers

Did you ever watched _Blow Out_ with John Travolta? Apparently all he needed for the perfect scream was one of these whistles

Some of these sound a bit like a turbine engine... nice work!

Thank you for being fascinated great video thanks

Very cool. The only one I can play is "The Raisin Box". All of second grade started playing too...so then no more little boxes of raisins at lunch.

So basically what bill cipher gave to dipper, " a head that countinues to scream "

May I make a suggestion? In the part about attempts at clay reproductions of the instrument (1:36-1:48) I see spherical and hemispherical resonating chambers (the ones that the sound does not emanate from- you identify it as the place where the air vibrates, but that's just another way to say "resonator") but in your version you have a flat-ended cylinder. I don't know how technically educated you are in acoustics, but differently shaped resonators will emphasize different harmonics and overtones. It's possible that you simply cannot exactly replicate the sound of the original with a flat-ended cylinder. So what is my suggestion? I love the idea of making it variable, so maybe you could make the end of the plug that goes into the cylinder a hemisphere to try to catch the harmonics that I'm not hearing. (Yes, I know, the sound you're hearing is not necessarily what I hear due to recording, data transmission and playback compression via KZfaq plus my cheesy speakers, but I still don't hear quite the same sound from the reproductions as from the original. Just trying to help.)

Intriguing! makes me wonder whether the resonators / chambers can be cascaded or nested for other effects.

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That originated when that one kid in whistle making class got bored.

4:31 POV, your in a Nether portal