I'm trying out KZitem's #Shorts format with this preview of my two newest primitive flutes. Over the past months, I have been working steadily to improve my flute building tools and techniques, and to gather a good supply of suitable elderberry branches. I'm not quite done yet with my experiments, but there should be new DIY flute videos in the near future.
(Please excuse my very limited flute playing skills - until I started this project, I hadn't touched a flute since elementary school.)
The smaller flute ist tuned to a D5 minor pentatonic scale. Its blank developed a small crack early on and had to be shortened to prevent it from spreading further. As a result, it ended up a bit too short for D5, so I tuned it down to the right frequency by narrowing the bottom hole with a plug. While this worked, I feel that it has given the base note a slightly different quality, a bit more airy and prone to squeaking. Also, this method threw off my sense of where the holes further up should be, resulting in the G and A holes being placed too low, which I had to compensate for by making them very wide. The next version of this flute will be a bit longer and have more balanced hole positions and sizes.
The longer flute is tuned to a C5 major scale (i.e. the "white key scale" on the piano). Apart from being generally tuned a bit too low, it is pretty much the way I wanted it, with reasonably ergonomic hole spacing, including wide enough holes for playing half holes. So the next version of this flute will be pretty much like this one, only tuned more accurately. (I don't want to tune this one up right now, because I fear I might end up with some very wide holes again. Maybe I'll try this once I have another one I am happy with.)
The third flute, included for comparison in the left in the final shot, is the one I made on my first flute video:
• Primitive music 2: Mak...
As a reminder, the note of a flute's hole is determined by:
its distance from the sound hole,
its diameter (this allows the flutist to play semitones by covering half the hole),
the holes further down being open or closed,
and also by the pressure with which the flutist blows into it (blowing harder increases the frequency slightly).
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