Hi George, Yes, the poor old albatross comes from a day (1987) when, even though I was making panflutes proffesionaly, (under the name windwood) I did NOT...
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... There can be no one and only diameter for pan flutes. Smaller diameters give a smaller more compact instrument, with a faster action, therefore, but...
Would it make sense musically to build a bass panflute which only spans 2 octaves, going from G to G2 (15 pipes)? My thinking is that if I was playing a piece...
So there is definitely play room when it comes to diameters. I made a panflute before where all inner diameters were a few mm larger than the Doina table...
Dave/Kevin, What are your methods of getting rid of nodes in canes that you simply cannot get around when making larger instruments? For example, I see that on...
Hello all.... I have posted some new shots into my album as requested. The first ones are promotional shots of Zamfir with the 23 Tubed Panflute from Comiti...
Hi George... Bamboo is as wonderful as it is frustrating to work with at times. One minute you think a piece looks great and then you realise that it has no...
No reason why not George. At one time, the Preda "Contrabass" flutes were 15 tubes....(starting at Low C or D). They are now 22 tubes like his bass Panflute. ...
Hi George.... I drill it out with a long auger.....see some new pics in my album. Some bamboo does flare below the node...filing can flatten this effect out....
That is excellent. Are those augers metric or in inch fractions? The special order bits that I got (about 7-8 of them in addition to the ones I already had)...
... One useful tool is a certain kind of file that has little square points like a cheese grater coming up off the edge. (a Surform plane) These are available...
Hallo David, ... For my part, I like the nodes on my bass panflute because they help me finding the right tube to blow. I can grab it in the dark and just...
You can make the base of your Panflute from many different woods, including laminating woods of different contrasting colours. I have added a picture to my...
Dear panflute players, I am still missing many of you on the panflutists world map: http://www.frappr.com/panfluteworld Ok, some might not want to publish...
... One would think so, but there is an astonishing amount of misunderstanding about panpipes and panflutes. A few yaars ago there was a short ballet piece put...
Hi Brad.... a similarly dedicated piece by Simion Staciu features on his recording with Marcel Cellier and Ion Miu....a wonderful piece of work. David Brad...
So far, for the bamboo panflutes I have made, I first scraped the enamel off, then baked the tubes till they were brown. This was done before any sanding and...
... I have never baked bamboo...however, from what I understand, moisture should escape along the line of the fibres, that is, out the ends of the cut tubes,...
That's what I heard also. With green bamboo, you can actually see the moisture coming out at the ends. Native American flute makers do something similar, using...
Hi George..... Yes....I have tried this....leaving the scraping until after the tubes are joined makes the scraping a bit harder but it does protect the finish...
Thanks Dave. I did see your previous response (months ago) to the baking question I had, and I took note of the temperature, which translates to roughly 338 F....
I know different manufacturers are known for different wall thicknesses of their panflutes. I've heard that Preda instruments tend to have slightly thicker...
... I would have said they have thinnish walls, but then someone told me you can order whatever you want from Preda, thick thin, medium. Popescu's were pretty...
I didn't clarify this enough - yes, I do like the high overtones, in other words, many possible frequencies taking place. I believe this has much to do with...
Related to this, another question: Is there anything wrong with rounding the INSIDE PLAYER's side a bit? Theoretically this shouldn't affect the tone, as long...
"the only man capable of getting it all back on track is Zamfir" http://www.hecklerspray.com/hecklerspray/2006/03/yanni_nothing_m.html The allegations caused...
Dear panflute community, I wonder, why the alto tone range is so common for panflutes, because a tenor is easier to play for a beginner and its tone range...
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