One of my flutes has found it's home in Germany with Roland pictured below! It is a 1.8 I made that some of you might remember from my friends Brian's blog in which we made a video. I am always curious about all the interesting places my flutes go and their equally fascinating owners!
Here's what Roland had to say:
"I am currently at the northsea-island Norderney for relaxing. It is so windy and stormy here and it's a good opportunity to play in the wind. Next week-end I will be in Berlin and on Monday I return to Cologne.
Black dots represent closed holes while white dots are open. Notice that Ri and Ii are called Hi and Hi go when played in Kan the second harmonic. This chart does not cover Meri notes, these are Kari or regular position notes.
I naturally developed a tongue trick for playing wide bore flutes and I came to find out that others have as well! Look at this here. The idea is to use the tongue to help fill the large area at the blowing end. Dropping the jaw can also help with this.
I just finished this fine flute. The humble root end Chinese madake bamboo sounded so good that I decided to do a lot of extra work. The flute reminded me of old antique shakuhachi which where completely sanded in this fashion often made from old canes or bamboo turtle egg poking sticks! I added a black buffalo horn inlay in the Kinko style for a nice look. The outside was sanded over a week using different grades of paper and pads then another week of apply coat after coat of Kakishibu persimmon sealer/stain in and out fallowed by 100% natural Tung oil!
I took this video to show the shine of the utaguchi face and inlay after fine sanding. No oils or finishes used! If the surrounding bamboo looks odd to you it is because I sanded it off to prepare it for Kakishibu stain/sealer!
