2024 Author: Priscilla Miln | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 00:21
There are a lot of toys on the market these days that make sounds ranging from music to laughter. However, it will be more interesting for children to do something original with their own hands, allowing them to surprise others. These things include a whistle from an ordinary acacia pod. It is easy to make and produces a perky, cheerful trill. How to make an acacia whistle?
Where and when can you find pods
Between the sidewalk and the carriageway, thorny bushes of yellow acacia are often planted, which is scientifically called caragana tree. It performs two main functions: firstly, it protects houses from car noise and road dust, and secondly, with its prickly branches, it prevents the road from crossing in the wrong place.
But this unpretentious plant has another advantage - its fruits, which can be used to entertain children. For the uninitiatedthe question immediately arises: how to make an acacia whistle? What will it take?
First of all, this requires ripe, but not overripe pods with a dense light green or green skin and formed peas. They become like this around the end of June. Young June fruits are too soft, and in August they turn brown, open and are also not suitable for "musical" purposes. Therefore, the middle of summer is the best time to think about how to make an acacia whistle with your own hands to please your children with extravagant "music".
How to make a working acacia whistle
The sound ability of a whistle is directly related to the quality of the source material. You need to choose a pod about 4 cm long and 0.3-0.4 cm wide with slightly "inflated" barrels. It should not be too soft or dry - in the latter case, the sashes will simply come off from each other.
To better understand how to make an acacia whistle, you need to consider that the pod has two different ends - sharp and rounded. It is the latter that will serve as the head of the whistle. The pointed part of the fruit should be removed about 1/3 of its total length (for example, if it is 4.5 cm long, then 1.5 cm should be plucked off).
If you look at the contour of the pod, then it has two lines of junction of valves - almost straight and convex. The side where the “uphill” is observed must be carefully opened: with the tip of the nail, “rip” this “seam” and lightly drawfinger along the inner walls. Peas should be carefully scraped off. And then the "pikalka" must be moistened from the inside - some whistlers simply lick it with their tongue, but this will have to be done carefully so as not to get hurt.
This is the simplest instruction on how to make a whistle from an acacia pod. But it does not hurt to know some of the difficulties of extracting sound, so as not to despair if it does not appear.
Subtleties of craftsmanship: how to make a sounding acacia whistle
Often, even experienced craftsmen cannot whistle the first time, although, it would seem, everything was done correctly. To understand how to make an acacia whistle that will work, you need to know a little trick.
Firstly, the inside of the pod must be well moistened, but not soaked: if all the pores are closed with liquid, then there will be no sound. By adjusting the humidity, they usually achieve a positive result.
If the trill does not sound, you can try to push or, conversely, pull the acacia fruit into your mouth, changing the length of the outer part. The air from the mouth must be free to enter the whistle.
You can also try to make several options - at least one will sound!
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