A strange microtonal instrument absolutely not designed for microtonality in the first place

Hi folks.

sorry for a few clipping spots, later I hope to make another recording and listen more carefully before uploading it (I wanted to have it ready quickly).

So ... Anyone wants to guess what instrument that is?
Just to give you a small clue, it's only a part of something.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8497979/strange_instrument.ogg

Petr

Hi Petr,

Am 02.08.2011 19:37, schrieb Petr Pařízek:
>
> So ... Anyone wants to guess what instrument that is?
> Just to give you a small clue, it's only a part of something.
> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8497979/strange_instrument.ogg
the very high sound components remember me of the shakuhachi
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakuhachi

...but it is obvious that it is not :)

Wolf

011/8/2 Petr Pařízek <petrparizek2000@...>
>
> Hi folks.
>
> sorry for a few clipping spots, later I hope to make another recording and
> listen more carefully before uploading it (I wanted to have it ready
> quickly).
>
> So ... Anyone wants to guess what instrument that is?
> Just to give you a small clue, it's only a part of something.
> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8497979/strange_instrument.ogg

Sounds like 16:19:22:24 to me. That's all I got. Is it the mouthpiece
of a flute or something?

-Mike

Hi Mike,

your thoughts are going the right direction; it was only the foot and the middle joint -- i.e. the head joint was missing. In the first part of the recording, I was playing it like a shakuhachi, then I switched to the way a Bulgarian kaval is played -- i.e. "sideways". Interestingly, the former method is good for lower tones while the latter is better for higher tones.

Obviously, if I take off the head joint, then all the effective wavelengths are much shorter than they should be; so two fingerings which would normally play, for example, C4-C5, don't make octaves at all.

Petr