
These instruments were used in ancient Mexico and they require a lot of pressure to produce their screaming sounds. You really have to blow as hard as you can. So, designing my own and adapting it to work as a projectile took a ton of research and inevitable failures. After about 10 designs, each with a different intake shape, chamber volume, angle of the resonance chamber, and outlet. None of them were working when fired, and I was about to give up. Then I accidentally broke the tapered intake cone off of one of my failed designs leaving just a small hole at the top. This was what it needed to get sufficient airflow. A small inlet and an exhaust hole large enough to match. One thing that becomes apparent is that when these are traveling around 200 feet per second, the human-like agonizing shriek becomes more like a high pitched howl. likely because the increased pressure as well as vortices created outside of the projectile affecting the turbulence inside the chamber.
Screamin' Rico (Aztec Death whistle) arrowhead
by Germy ballswell · original on Printables ↗
Sports & Outdoor / Outdoor Sports
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