I present to you the shvi:
http://duduk.com/Arm-music-ins/Shvi/index.html

Now let’s shvi who’s the first to buy one! ![]()
I present to you the shvi:
http://duduk.com/Arm-music-ins/Shvi/index.html

Now let’s shvi who’s the first to buy one! ![]()
It’s so pretty.
Good find, Glauber. Funny how much it looks like a Sweet “professional”.
Also the fingering seems akin to “German” system recorders, but it seems like the bottom hole would sound one half-tone above bell instead of a full tone.
It makes me crave a Red Ruben’s Sanded Shvi, too…
sound bite:
http://www.narek-store.com/shop/SearchResults.asp?ProdStock=MD-7007-CD&inexid=4TF1J1WV97
Good find, Mack. Here’s the one-piece model:

There are sound bytes in that page i posted too (top of this thread). The lower pitched ones are very nice.
http://duduk.com/Arm-music-ins/Shvi/RR-MPEG/Tenor-Shvi.mpg
http://duduk.com/Arm-music-ins/Shvi/RR-MPEG/A_Alto_Shvi.mpg
(actually sideways video clips!)
And Mike McGoldrick’s (in)famous 2-shvis trick!
http://duduk.com/Arm-music-ins/Shvi/RR-MPEG/D-A-shvi.mpg
Your post confuses me.
I doubt if the bottom hole is played.
Its probably an exhaust vent allowing for a longer tube.
If you plugged it, you would most likely get a semitone below the
XXX XXX
which isn’t remarkable.
Buy for now.
how do you contact him?
It isn’t immediately clear but there is a back hole between the top 2 front holes, I assume this is tuned in the same way as the Duduk.
0o0 0 0 0 0 0
XxX X X X X 0 Tonic 1 (over simplistic but needs must)
Xo0 0 0 0 0 0 Octave Tonic 1
XxX X X X 0 0 Tonic 2
0o0 0 0 0 0 0 Octave Tonic 2
From the Six finger and thumb hole this gives the following scale in ratios
9/9 = 1/1 Tonic
9/8 = Just Major tone
9/7
9/6 = 3/2 Just 5th
9/5
18/9 = 2/1 Octave Tonic
9/4 =