Genius!

Thanks so much for this. I want to make a giant flute but it's not a straight pipe. Is it all about area of space inside the instrument? It doesnt have to be a perfect cylinder? Also if there is something blocking the end of the flute but with holes in it will it still make the note? Like if horns had a cross brace inside to keep the bell from getting crushed would that stop the note? Or just mute the tone a bit?

Retour aux classiques 😁😁

Yep, a traditional folk instrument in Norway - of course predating plastic pipes or any other manufactured tube… People used to make them from spring-fresh willow tree saplings. The “folklore magic” emerged from the seasonal and ephemeral nature of the instrument - it wasn’t yours to keep, as the bark quickly deteriorates, leaving only the memory of its natural tones heard in the forest…

Thank you for your guide on making an overtone flute. Could you please tell me how to make a large overtone flute? I dream of making one like the one in the video OMNIA [Official] - Kokopelli HokaHey! [live]. Thank you!

As a person who is completely far from the physics of sound formation, I still can’t understand why some whistle instruments sound when they don’t have a hole at the end, while others don’t. What does this depend on? And why do some instruments sound in both cases?

Wonderful video !

grate video!!! please, tell me what tuner soft on the phone you use?

Great. Could you please demonstrate how to do it with natural materials like metal, wood and clay? Which type of metal is easiest to maintain and prevent rust?

What tuner app do you use pleas?

I was trying to find a way to build a mijwiz, with the right piping it might be possible !

Man. The human capacity for musical expression is something beautiful.

Thank you for your videos, and it's so cool that you overcame yourself to make videos and even in English.

The guitar made from the KZbin award, Bomb! 👍

Make a shakuhachi out of pvc please I love it's sound but it's too expensive

What tuning app is that?

you are a treasure to the musical community

You just copied someone else's vid 😂😂😂

fantastic !

I know lots of flutes are in C, but as a saxophonist I preferred the sound of the Bb one hahaha. If I ever learn flute, I imagine I’d prefer the Bb extension attached all the time!

So cool.

@NicolasBras do you have any idea on how many % you scaled the octave lower ocarina to? Is it 125%? Or 150%

in western nc waiting for my power to come back on. thanks for giving me something to do tomorrow! :)

Excellent.

thats really interesting! it reminds me of the soundtrack for some cartoons we would have in our local tv here in brazil!

hell ye a perfect remake

So you made a video short on something you called an Aeolian Flute but it was much different than this. I'm still very curious about that one. But Google sent me down the overtone flute rabbit hole so it's nice that you made this one, too! Otherwise I would have been going crazy. 😅

Thank you for sharing this info! You know most of us want to make our own instruments and are here for your fantastic inspiration!

Made one a couple years ago that fits into my transverse concert flute as a replacement of the head joint. Not perfect, theres plenty of fixes I've yet to make, but now It plays vertically and has since become the main way I play that instrument.

Sounds great! Are you a trained woodwind player, or did you learn on your own through experimentation? Not that it matters, because either way, it all still sounds awesome!

Ça c'est un son qui pourrait plaire à Wintergatan, l'ingénieur de la musique à billes, ça collerait drôlement bien entre un grand tambour qui tourne, des billes qui résonnent sur des bouteilles qui pourraient se gonfler ou se dégonfler, façon shadoks ! Par contre je me demande s'il peut y avoir un risque avec des pressions élevées, je sais que ces bouteilles résistent à 20bars, ça fait beaucoup et si ça pète ça peut être mauvais pour les yeux déjà. Ce serait peut-être possible de faire une pompe avec un grand levier mais assez léger, histoire de pouvoir jouer des glissandos, ou bien des vibratos ! Je crois qu'on va bientôt découvrir un nouvel instrument de percussion... Any question.... tellement de pistes à explorer. C'est fou tout ce qu'on peut faire avec de l'air, surtout dans la musique, forcément !

Awesome!❤ Could you combine an alphorn and a didge please? The mouth pieces are different, and the didge piece is bigger, more space for mouth articulations-could this be combined wirh the warm sound of the alphorn?

Hawt damn great work again nicolas. been subscribed since the membrane clarinet video and you always make such phenomenal vids.

What in the legend of zelda? 😅

Very nice sounding I ll make one. That is the typical balkan shepherd's flute. Do they also use it in France?

MDR t'es un ouf , j'adore

Tu déchires bro !

It's quite a few years ago now but I saw mandolin player Radim Zenkl play a traditional overtone flute at a bluegrass summer school. It was amazing and I've been a great fan ever since. So thanks for this Nic, I really enjoyed it.

…Brilliant and imaginative - both in design and musicianship. ☀️ Thank you.

Come yo Africa you are missing some profound beats!😅

REALLY cool! Thanks for posting this.

perfectly usable instrument to make good music.

shaun

Danke, du hast mein Leben gerettet ❤ meine Verneigung und meine Verehrung!!!!

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Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Bravo!

Oh ? tu n'as jamais tenté de rouler les R en soufflant ? je joue du saxo, on fait les T, on lie par des L , les K sont plus du domaine de la flute, et les R on un son de sifflet à bille très efficace pour faire croire à de la vitesse, qu'on exploite bien quand on siffle de la langue et pas des lèvres

super video !