Yahoo Tuning Groups Ultimate Backup tuning Anyone interested in microtonal bamboo flutes?

You know, since I got back into the musical world
this year (after years of doing no music stuff
at all), lots of things have fallen in place.
It's like I was meant to do music. Kinda neat.

Anyway, one thing I've been interested in for a
long time is bamboo flutes. I've made a couple
in random tunings. I'm still new at making them,
but am learning about the physics involved and
such.

Would anyone here be interested in bamboo flutes
in various microtonal scales? Once I figure the
measurements out, I should be able to make them
in pretty much any scale from any tuning. Now,
due to the fact that you only have 10 fingers
to cover holes with, you have a max of about 12
"clean" (not crossfingered) notes in the scale.
For pricing, I was thinking about $40 or so each.
Signed, numbered, with printed sheet showing
tuning (tonic and deviations, hertz and cents).
Carved artwork done by my wife for extra $.

Any interest? Could be a neat way to play with
new tunings. I'd probably start with 22TET, as
that's my current interest. I may also make
them out of PVC later, but I have plentiful
bamboo from 1" to 3" in diameter (those big ones
are COOL! I had one which had a tonic of F on
the second line of the bass clef! It was 3' long).

Darin "Basil" Arrick
basil_arrick@yahoo.com

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On 23 Aug 1999 15:05:27 -0000, basil_arrick@yahoo.com wrote:

>Any interest? Could be a neat way to play with
>new tunings. I'd probably start with 22TET, as
>that's my current interest. I may also make
>them out of PVC later, but I have plentiful
>bamboo from 1" to 3" in diameter (those big ones
>are COOL! I had one which had a tonic of F on
>the second line of the bass clef! It was 3' long).

Yes, that sounds interesting. 22-TET is one of my current favorite scales,
along with 15-TET, for similar reasons (good approximations to 7th and 11th
harmonics, and that wonderful "half-a-minor-third" interval).

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Hi Basil and other microtonal bamboo flute folks,

A good book with info. on the flute making (including the physics and
math of it) is:

* Bart Hopkin's "Air Columns & Tone Holes: Principles for Wind
Instrument Design"

A good book full of rules of thumb (but not so much math or physics, if
any) for flute making is:

* Mark Shepard's "Flutecraft: An Artisan's Guide to Bamboo Flutemaking"

The two books above are available from Tai Hei Shakuhachi (along with several other
books on the art and science of flute making):

http://www.shakuhachi.com/TOC-CM.html

Another good book on the physics and math of flute design, from which I
think that Bark Hopkin drew heavily for his book, is:

* Arthur H. Benade's "Fundamentals of Musical Acoustics"

The above book is available from amazon.com:

http://www.amazon.com

I have done some experimenting with bamboo flute making and have written
a C language computer program to assist with tone hole placement based
on the equations given by Benade and Hopkins.

Please be aware that flute tunings, even in keyed silver concert flutes,
are compromise tunings -- you can not really get the exact tuning you
want across all the holes over all the octaves. So, while you can do
interesting things with flute tunings, don't expect to have precise
pitches coming out of your flute and you won't be disappointed. :-)

Cheers,
Christopher

Anyone interested in microtonal bamboo flutes?

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