Aztec Death Whistle: EERIE!

[Marthe48]

I never heard of them, and it is a nerve-wracking sound.

[Sneederbunk]

1. Very popular at Aztec football games.

[Wingus Dingus]

2. That's cool.

[Ocelot II]

3. That's awful, worse than the vuvuzuela.

Can you imagine a whole stadium full of those?

[Marthe48]

4. No

I don't think Aztecs rode horses, but the last part of the video sounds like Hell unleashed. And I can't imagine taking something like that to a fun event :/

[nevergiveup]

5. Sounds like a crow in distress.

[BlueTsunami2018]

6. I have one.

It’s pretty cool. I use it on Halloween, freaks people out.

[Marthe48]

12. I might buy one

for GP

[getagrip_already]

7. found a design on thingiverse - I'm 3D printing one now......

Not sure what kind of sound it will make, but it is a pretty scary head in its own right.

[Marthe48]

8. Please let us know how it turns out!

Have you planned this for awhile? Or just find the design today?

[getagrip_already]

10. I looked for it after seeing the vid.....

It's amazing what people have uploaded.

It just finished. Good detail, but it is small (about the size of your fist), and the pitch seems high (but the cats hate it, so it must be close ).

I'm printing it much bigger; about the size of a real skull. That should lower the pitch. Ir won't be done for about 15 hours though.

[Marthe48]

11. You're amazing :)

I got a drafting cert. when CAD was just starting to be used and read articles about being able to print 3D objects someday

[getagrip_already]

15. I took a couple of years of mechanical drawing in high school....

What a painstaking effort. I can never look at a parts drawing and not recall the work it took to do just one part by hand.

Now it's all done in sw.

And what is amazing is all the sw I use to design and print is free. Even fusion 360 from auto desk has a personal use license free of charge. You don't get all the features, but you get what you need for 3d print design.

[Marthe48]

18. Is sw software?

Or a cad program?

My younger brother took drafting after high school and had a good job in Colorado. He left it for auto mechanics and did well in that too.

[getagrip_already]

19. Yes to both...

Sw is short for software.

Fusion 360 is an advanced cad / cam software package from auto desk. There are other cad packages that are free, but I prefer fusion.

Other software is used to slice designs (prepare them for printing), create artwork, and manipulate images. You can even get free sw packages that will convert a series of digital photographs of an object into a 3d design file that can be printed or used in animations.

[Marthe48]

20. Thank you for all of the information

I feel like I've gotten an update on drafting and CAD, After I got my cert., I got a job in admissions at a beauty college and later got jobs in computer operations. I owe those to learning so much about using computers when the instructor was trying to teach us about CAD. Is the whistle complete?

[Ocelot II]

9. You can also get them from Etsy.

I might buy one for Halloween, and just sit on the porch and blow it to keep the kids away so I don't have to buy candy.

[onethatcares]

13. maybe we take them to the next tfg rally

and parade around the perimeter.

If 100 make that kind of sound, imagine 500

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

14. Almost as scary as vuvuzelas at a soccer match

[getagrip_already]

16. Sounds like a swarm of bees.......

I kind of like the sound a bunch of bees make, but I'm just a crazy beekeeper....

[mopinko]

17. cant tell if it's wood or clay. but the aztecs made some crazy clay shit.

the art institute has a great collection.
they have a tall vase w an incised man wearing another man's skin.
they had that scary shit down cold.
they made a lot of cool clay whistles.

i think it was a later culture, but face jugs were also a big thing. i have a lot of neighbors from all over, and i can tell who is from central america and not mexico from those faces.
all unique individuals.