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Oct. 6th, 2007
nasty, brutish, and short
Oct. 6th, 2007 11:27 pmSo it's been a while since I've made a flute, but I got some requests for my work from people who had heard me playing the older ones I'd made, and I'd been wanting to get back into it anyway, so I got this hunk of bamboo I thought was really pretty but hopelessly inappropriate for a flute the last time I played with it and decided I'd see what I could do.
I didn't really expect to get a playable flute out of it, and I really didn't as I don't really consider this one to be a real flute, but it is functionally complete, even if the fingering is nonstandard. His name is Savage, because his range is nasty, brutish, and short.
This is Savage's difficult and cranky song, something I just made up on the fly out of a scale: (MP3) (M4A) It is not a "good take," in any sense, but it does cover just about all the flute can do, which is something.
I've never seen an air column act like this before. The fingering is weird and difficult because it's not standard because the bamboo has this interiour ridge and other weirdness going on, and he's super-cranky about landing finger coverage perfectly, and the tuning is ... problematic. Oh, and playing him makes my left hand hurt. On the other hand, building Savage has taught me a lot. I'll get him bound up tomorrow - I need practice at that again too - and then, hum, well, yeah. Not sure what to do with it then, because while attractive, Savage would be the worst-case flute for a beginner, and of no use whatsoever to someone who knows what they're doing because of the super-limited range.
But it's been a good experience for me, so I'm glad to have had it work.
I guess I need a flutemaking icon. And/or a music icon.
I didn't really expect to get a playable flute out of it, and I really didn't as I don't really consider this one to be a real flute, but it is functionally complete, even if the fingering is nonstandard. His name is Savage, because his range is nasty, brutish, and short.
This is Savage's difficult and cranky song, something I just made up on the fly out of a scale: (MP3) (M4A) It is not a "good take," in any sense, but it does cover just about all the flute can do, which is something.
I've never seen an air column act like this before. The fingering is weird and difficult because it's not standard because the bamboo has this interiour ridge and other weirdness going on, and he's super-cranky about landing finger coverage perfectly, and the tuning is ... problematic. Oh, and playing him makes my left hand hurt. On the other hand, building Savage has taught me a lot. I'll get him bound up tomorrow - I need practice at that again too - and then, hum, well, yeah. Not sure what to do with it then, because while attractive, Savage would be the worst-case flute for a beginner, and of no use whatsoever to someone who knows what they're doing because of the super-limited range.
But it's been a good experience for me, so I'm glad to have had it work.
I guess I need a flutemaking icon. And/or a music icon.