Hello my dear whistlefriends.
I’m going forward in little steps to achieve one day the best possible result for my “AddOn”. The very new thing is the curved brass-elbow with different coatings - pure brass - polished and laquered - silver coating.
Please have a short look at this first short youtube-vid:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kF_FcyC6fco
I am planing to make a serial production one day in the future and I feel, that I am pretty close now…I really cannot say a price right now, but you’ll get updates. Please follow my youtube blog and my educci website.
Greetings from Berlin,
Martin
That is fantastic!
As I’ve said, I can’t play horizontal/transverse flute due to hand and neck issues, so this would be a great thing for me.
I’ve looked into the vertical flute headjoints (with the ordinary Boehm flute embouchure hole) but they’re very expensive.
…everything can be done, also upright headjoints like a DRELINGER upright - you can see, I already work on this ( and many more ) ideas:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WC9Dz9MkYzQ
Interesting. A 3-octave+ whistle. How much would a (minimum reasonable) flute body cost? What sort of price is the head? Can a ‘package’ be bought?
There must be some downsides too… what are they?
(I ask as someone who would seriously consider a purchase).
Phill
What about intonation? Does the whistle head have a ‘parabolic’ taper, like a Boehm headjoint? I think this would be pretty interesting for a wooden Irish flute (which has the taper in the body and keeps the familiar whistle fingering).
The quena headjoint sounds great, too. How about a vertical wooden flute, pancelticpiper?
Yes that would be great, a vertical thing with Irish fingering but a horizontal flute embouchure hole.
I have a Bolivian Quenacho/Kena-kena that plays great. I’ve made replicas of it in PVC pipe with Irish hole spacing but I can’t get the octaves right.
Maybe that’s where the taper in an Irish flute would help? Maybe you could get a headless flute to experiment.
in a quena, shakuhachi, ney, kaval etc… the mouth space is part of the flute-volume. So the acoustic corrections are a little different to a labial-flute ( whistle ) or a sideblown flute. Where to make the spaces or where to put in a knot or a wedge - that is always different..
Only a few cylindric tubes work for propper octavetuning over the entire range of 2 1/2 octaves, but this is a thing you whistleguys know better and longer than I do…?!..One of the very best tubes are available in the USA, it is the normal PVC 3/4" schedual 40 - but with a 40mm insert and 0,4 mm thickness at the upper part of the flute or quenacho ( a knot ). Some of my best flutes!! This diameter is about 20,64mm and works fine. ( low D whistle size ) I will show that again one day on youtube, wait a little.
You might not follow my youtube blog over the last 12 years, but I had over 100 vids on air and showed everything of my studies…I throught them all away…anyway, you will find a new video that is dealing with quenacho-ideas. please search for “3X - Quenacho”.
I think, that I tried every possible hybrid thing in the last 12 years, including tapered headjoint on whistles and so on…wait a moment, I’m going to feature all my instruments on youtube in the next time, because we’re going to become professional instrumentmakers this year.
Well, I discovered some nice things and tricks and I will share all this knowledge with you (again) - you can find everything on the web anyway, so did I.
What I learned is, that you can make nearly everything - mixing together to a new hybrid-flute - that is, what many guys are doing out there and it’s fun to see all this fantastic ideas.
in a quena, shakuhachi, ney, kaval etc… the mouth space is part of the flute-volume. So the acoustic corrections are a little different to a labial-flute ( whistle ) or a sideblown flute. Where to make the spaces or where to put in a knot or a wedge - that is always different..
Only a few cylindric tubes work for propper octavetuning over the entire range of 2 1/2 octaves, but this is a thing you whistleguys know better and longer than I do…?!..One of the very best tubes are available in the USA, it is the normal PVC 3/4" schedual 40 - but with a 40mm insert and 0,4 mm thickness at the upper part of the flute or quenacho ( a knot ). Some of my best flutes!! This diameter is about 20,64mm and works fine. ( low D whistle size ) I will show that again one day on youtube, wait a little.
You might not follow my youtube blog over the last 12 years, but I had over 100 vids on air and showed everything of my studies…I throught them all away…anyway, you will find a new video that is dealing with quenacho-ideas. please search for “3X - Quenacho”.
I think, that I tried every possible hybrid thing in the last 12 years, including tapered headjoint on whistles and so on…wait a moment, I’m going to feature all my instruments on youtube in the next time, because we’re going to become professional instrumentmakers this year.
Well, I discovered some nice things and tricks and I will share all this knowledge with you (again) - you can find everything on the web anyway, so did I.
What I learned is, that you can make nearly everything - mixing together to a new hybrid-flute - that is, what many guys are doing out there and it’s fun to see all this fantastic ideas.