{"id":74,"date":"2017-12-04T02:05:36","date_gmt":"2017-12-04T02:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bmumford.com\/craft\/?page_id=74"},"modified":"2019-12-22T19:48:18","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T19:48:18","slug":"puny","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bmumford.com\/craft\/puny\/","title":{"rendered":"The Amazing Puny Tune Miniature Flute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-229 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bmumford.com\/craft\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/12\/Puny4b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"527\" height=\"228\" border=\"1\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bmumford.com\/craft\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/12\/Puny4b.jpg 527w, https:\/\/www.bmumford.com\/craft\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/12\/Puny4b-480x208.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 527px, 100vw\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Puny Tune is a small 4-holed whistle that can play an accurate musical scale of 13 notes. I designed the Puny Tune in 1978 and have been granted a U.S. Patent on it. It has also been exhibited at the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C. The Puny Tune is tuned to a precision electronic reference to assure an accurate scale.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-232 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bmumford.com\/craft\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/12\/Kingwoodb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"209\" height=\"496\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bmumford.com\/craft\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/12\/Kingwoodb.jpg 259w, https:\/\/www.bmumford.com\/craft\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/12\/Kingwoodb-126x300.jpg 126w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 209px) 100vw, 209px\" \/>I no longer make Puny Tunes for sale. They were commonly made in three domestic woods: maple, cherry, and walnut. Special instruments in exotic woods were also available. The fancy one shown here is made from Kingwood, Satinwood, Padauk and Ebony.<\/p>\n<p>Each instrument came with a cord so that it could be worn around the neck while hiking or walking about town. The small size is 4.5&#8243; long, the large size is 6&#8243; long.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>See: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bmumford.com\/craft\/puny\/museum\/\">The Puny Tune Museum<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Hear: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bmumford.com\/craft\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/12\/02-28-15.mp3\">A Puny Tune (22 KHz, 105K)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>See: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bmumford.com\/craft\/puny\/player\/\">A machine that plays songs on a Puny Tune flute<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Puny Tune is a small 4-holed whistle that can play an accurate musical scale of 13 notes. I designed the Puny Tune in 1978 and have been granted a U.S. Patent on it. It has also been exhibited at the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C. The Puny Tune is tuned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bmumford.com\/craft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/74"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bmumford.com\/craft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bmumford.com\/craft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bmumford.com\/craft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bmumford.com\/craft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"https:\/\/www.bmumford.com\/craft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/74\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":251,"href":"https:\/\/www.bmumford.com\/craft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/74\/revisions\/251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bmumford.com\/craft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}