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Offline Jodocus

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chamois shin bone flute
« on: February 11, 2015, 09:16:26 am »
A little under eight inches, in A-major. The holes play to g sharp, then it's up to the next register.
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Offline Wolf Watcher

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Re: chamois shin bone flute
« Reply #1 on: February 11, 2015, 09:21:17 am »
Wow  :o  I really like your flute.  Would love to hear it!  Joe
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Offline Jodocus

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Re: chamois shin bone flute
« Reply #2 on: February 11, 2015, 09:29:36 am »
Well, it is surprisingly loud, and the sound is coarser, harder than from a wooden flute. Like all edge blown flutes, is has a windy timbre and the notes can be bent a lot, easily more than a half.  ;)
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Re: chamois shin bone flute
« Reply #3 on: February 11, 2015, 09:33:33 am »
Very nice, Love it. I have a bunch of them bones, love to give that a try. :)
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Offline Buffalogobbler

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Re: chamois shin bone flute
« Reply #4 on: February 11, 2015, 09:43:08 am »
Very cool looking flute, too bad you can't post a sound file.

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Offline YosemiteBen

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Re: chamois shin bone flute
« Reply #5 on: February 11, 2015, 03:21:43 pm »
That is a nice little flute! I like it a lot - one of those would look nice in my collection......

Offline ssgtchad

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Re: chamois shin bone flute
« Reply #6 on: February 11, 2015, 03:49:44 pm »
I can't play but that's nice!!!
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Offline comebackshane

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Re: chamois shin bone flute
« Reply #7 on: February 11, 2015, 10:31:45 pm »
I really like that. Can you show a picture looking down into the mouthpiece end? I assume its blown from the end.  How did you get the measurements for spacing the holes?

Offline Jodocus

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Re: chamois shin bone flute
« Reply #8 on: February 12, 2015, 12:56:50 am »
comebackshane: That triangular opening in the second picture is the mouthpiece (the wider of the two). There's no more to it. You close it with your mouth and blow onto the edge. The principle is today emplyed on reet flutes such as the ney and kawala. It takes a little bit of practice to get it to sound.

The hole spacing is borrowed from the kawala as well, it is about 2/12, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7/12 from the distal end. From there it's fine tuning. Since hole size and shape and wall thickness contribute to the pitch besides the hole position, there's no exact calculating the spacing. Tuning is done from the lowest hole upward, sometimes it takes two passes.

On this particular flute, the fact that the bone flares open wider in the last two inches made my lowest two holes quite a bit too low, so I had to enlarge them.

watch out, you can always raise the pitch of any hole by widening it, lowering the pitch is not as easy. start out with small holes no more than a third of the inner diameter of the flute.

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Offline chamookman

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Re: chamois shin bone flute
« Reply #9 on: February 12, 2015, 03:24:22 am »
Really cool ! I'd like to hear it also - Bob.
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Re: chamois shin bone flute
« Reply #10 on: February 12, 2015, 10:57:03 pm »
It looks like it will play as good as it LOOKs 8)
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