Forums > Other Toys > Harmonic Whirlies anyone?????

Posted: 26th Nov 2003
We had one when I was a kid... its just like a flimsy hollow tube that whistles when you spin it.. sounds kind of eerie, but we never did anything besides spin them around and hit each other with it, so I wouldn't know how to actually *use* them

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Posted: 27th Nov 2003
hmmmm...

Posted: 27th Nov 2003
er.
yes.
we use them occasionally. mostly for kids workshops tho cause its difficult to get enough variation to make them interesting.
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spin them like clubs tho, noones got round to putting handles, wiehgts to make hem more poi like tho.


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Holistic Spinner (I hope)

Posted: 4th Dec 2003
hello...*

I've played with them lots in the past... we used to perform with Sarah Hopkins, (the musician who produces them...) When we were performing with her, we would cheat a bit and cover the ends of the ones that were actually being twirled and a couple of other performers would play the music with them using simpler patterns so they could completely control the pitch...

They are definitely heaps of fun for something different & kids do *love* them - we always take a bag of them out for festival workshops... and you can get some yummy kind of strobing illusion under certain types of lighting... and it's delicious twirling in the middle of a kind of musical vortex .:*:. ...you can use them heaps like poi, some moves are a bit different and others impossible but you can work around that for the fun of having the sound...