Sunday, January 9, 2011

Monster shakuhachi

I made this shakuhachi (I guess it can be called that) from very large root end madake as an experiment.  I positioned the holes according to  Nelson Zink's equation for ergonomic hole placement on large shakuhachi.  The result (as expected) was a 3.0 that plays in E, but manages only one octave plus a bit.  As expected, it takes a lot of air, but is manageable both from that point of view and from a handling point of view.



Here is the 3.0 next to a 2.0 for comparison.
Have a listen!

3 comments:

  1. I enjoyed that thank you for sharing. Jon~

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  2. Hey Jeff, yeah definitely thanks for sharing this, both the photo of your monster flute and the sound file. Love the sound!

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  3. Thanks for reading, listening and commenting Jon and Erin. It's much appreciated.

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