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A boxwood musical instrument
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Posted 05 July 2009 - 02:59 AM
I thought it might be of interest to some. Another ocarina of mine, this time in boxwood. Fully functional and tuned to play music, rather than to sit in a display cabinet.
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Posted 05 July 2009 - 02:33 PM
Very cool and unique, Yuri! I dabbled with Native American flutes (NAF) for a short while while teaching a class to make them, and used a small offcut to make an ocarina with the upside-down/inside-out NAF sound making thingy, but never thought about carving one. I found the tuning method strange and interesting. Excellent job - I may have to rethink this...or maybe not. I'm not sure... 
Is there an easy and foolproof way to make the sound-making thingy (the fipple?) like on yours?
Is there an easy and foolproof way to make the sound-making thingy (the fipple?) like on yours?
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Posted 05 July 2009 - 04:50 PM
That's the coolest ocarina I've ever seen by far!
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Posted 06 July 2009 - 02:14 AM
Thanks for the comments.
Tsterling, no, there isn't. I make a lot of professional quality musical instruments, so carving the fipple is by now second nature to me. It isn't actually difficult, you just need to know exactly what you are doing, and why, and then it's just a matter of keeping to very close tolerances. I'd say that that part is no problem to just about all members of this forum. It's the understanding of the actual engineering part that takes some learning.
Tsterling, no, there isn't. I make a lot of professional quality musical instruments, so carving the fipple is by now second nature to me. It isn't actually difficult, you just need to know exactly what you are doing, and why, and then it's just a matter of keeping to very close tolerances. I'd say that that part is no problem to just about all members of this forum. It's the understanding of the actual engineering part that takes some learning.
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Posted 06 July 2009 - 07:04 AM
Yuri, on Jul 5 2009, 02:59 AM, said:
I thought it might be of interest to some. Another ocarina of mine, this time in boxwood. Fully functional and tuned to play music, rather than to sit in a display cabinet.
It is an instrument? Amazing.
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Posted 06 July 2009 - 06:55 PM
So cool!
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Posted 07 July 2009 - 03:32 PM
Hi Yuri, can you play without smiling with that ocarina ? It's a nice piece, and it's cool to play with it ?
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