The Cylisax

[@SamChaneyProductions]

This thing blows the venova and xaphoon over the water and its yet its made with such affordable materials. The branching tube making it an open tube resonator is genius!

[@larynx88]

What a legend

[@mheermance]

It looks like something out of a Doctor Seuss book, but sounds really good.

[@stevekobb3850]

Fabulous, Linsey! Love it. And a beautiful performance, too.

[@Jandavis57]

Brilliant!!! Beautiful sound. I love the true genius in you, Linsey! Thank you from the US!

[@KingOfSpadess]

My gosh you about blew out my eardrums when you first started playing because I had turned up the volume so much to hear you.

[@TheHUhelps]

This kind of talent and creativity always blows me away!

[@danielvandommele1204]

As a clarinet and saxophone player I totally love this!!

[@jcogger]

Oh maaaaan! love your instrument a lot.

[@SantisValiant]

This sounds amazing. I would totally buy one.

[@xSoleriderX]

Sounds like a Duduk to me. Lovely! You are a reed player, so you would know the Duduk. Also a lovely instrument. Thanks for your great vids!

[@dwisnupramono3301]

Wouw amazing sounds. I like it's. Thanks brother.

[@VioletMidnightProductions]

Wow it looks funny but sounds so cool!! I have to make one now!

[@Relbac3]

Amazes sound and songs but there's something you need to know like have you ever play or maybe make a saxophone with Mr curly and all that stuff

[@CamStLouis]

Wow, it just occurred to me this could be used to correct the octave problem with cylindrical bagpipes as well. Ever tried it with a membrane reed?

[@camelCased]

So, you killed Yamaha's Venova, your model sounds better to my ear. Could you make something more "production ready" and sell for, say, 50 USD? I'd buy one.

[@mikeycenname2547]

camelCased bro that’s a fact, i would buy one too

[@nathleflutiste]

I would buy it too, better than the Venova.

[@PKMartin]

While I definitely dig the plastic funnel look, I'd love to see one of these with two nice shiny brass trumpet bells... it looks like an alien instrument from a '60s sci-fi, you could busk with this and just watch people's bewilderment :)

[@robofjohnson3953]

Love it!! Sounds awesome!! Well done ya genius 👊💜💜

[@mversantvoort]

Awesome, that sounds amazig for just a few funnels and a piece of irrigation tubing! :D

[@barrysnyman9645]

Great..... Old world sound!

[@4life4win]

Awesome sound!

[@marcoantoniohernandezgarci6624]

Y lo muestras en uno de tus videos gracias.

[@gilbertofernandes2674]

Good job!

[@thiagotorres2594]

Linsey do you have the charts to make the notes of the cylisax?

[@Relbac3]

It could be a good idea and all that stuff

[@pain5140]

Hello... you have any ideas how can I make my saxophone play more silently.. if i ad some extra tube.. near the mouthpice to reduce air pressure... or something... i have a small children and it's very hard to practice... sorry for my bad English

[@sonodrome]

Wonderful sound :)

[@samfifieldi662]

Hi Linsey, thanks for the videos, I've really enjoyed making all your fun designs. where abouts in Aus are you based? I predominantly play flamenco, and classical indian music (sitar) would love to have a chat about designs (tuning polypipes to hijaz or raag intonations). Thanks again.

[@leonardomorenoshannon6124]

Nice sounding thing ;)

[@77MyEsha]

Wow, I've got a Venova too, and it's not a patch on this!! Where please can I buy one? I rather like it's quirky appearance. Would be a real talking point at the local acoustic club!

[@M.F.Hafizhan]

Check his site. You can either order a (presumably wooden) one from him, or make an irrigation pipe one yourself with the schematics provided on the site.

[@SquealyD]

Hi Kerri, I make wooden Cylisaxes for sale at $660AUD, the plastic ones (like in the video) you can make yourself ....email me for measurements: [e-mail]

[@zakargabrite3171]

damn that's a cool shirt where'd u get it

[@malopelli]

you are a genius

[@lucasreeds]

Fantastic! you have hack the mechanism of the yamaha venova, cheaper and better sounding! Well done!!

[@fd_unger]

A true genious!

[@marcoantoniohernandezgarci6624]

Please , haz el diagrama del cilysax , para poder hacerlo.

[@GermanEze]

hola! has obtenido respuesta?

[@DanieleAlbertiArduino]

Fantastico!

[@wordlogicvee]

Can i buy one from you

[@louischappellholmes2708]

Hi Linsey, I've been watching you're videos almost as an addiction at this point, I've even made my own Mr Curly and I was wondering if you could tell me the measurements of this as it's not in your book

[@SquealyD]

Hi Louis the measurements are in the book "Make your own Mr Curly and other clarinets" from my website linseypollak.com

[@louischappellholmes2708]

Linsey Pollak I have the book, it's not in there

[@SquealyD]

Maybe you have the book "Mrs Curly and the Norwegian smoking Pipe"? The eBook "Make your own Mr Curly and other clarinets" does have the measurements for Mr Curly. If you are talking about the Cylisax this is a new instument and so isn't in the book. I will eventually post a video with the measurements

[@louischappellholmes2708]

Linsey Pollak I was talking about the cylisax, the Mr curly turned out great by the way, and I'm looking forward to seeing the dimensions!

[@SquealyD]

email me with CYLISAX MEASUREMENTS as subject at [e-mail] and I'll send the measurements

[@loreleibarcelos104]

amazing!! i love your content

[@jeremywest6353]

Do you sell these?

[@ne0romantic]

This is amazing. I am in awe of you thinking of this in the first place. I don't want to downplay that but seeing what you've done here I immediately wondered: have you thought about trying to make at the top end closeable with a valve or something? (creating a low register where it would behave like a clarinet again; there might be a more jarring register break there than a lot of instruments but if it works it would ad an octave to the bottom. It is possible?)

[@SquealyD]

you can do that but the lower octave clarinet tuning is way out!

[@ne0romantic]

Thank you for the response! I guess I was wondering if it's possible tweak things like the length of the branch and the length of the mouthpiece section to get it closer, but there is much I don't understand about how those things affect the tuning of the other (main) registers you've designed it to actually play in... Also a valve could remove the branch entirely or a in a similar instrument without the bell a key could just close the end. Would somewhere in between this options lead to an in tune chalumeau register? Perhaps the question could be can it be made so the lower octave tuning is way out in such a way that its in tune but different notes? But that means the it would have a different fingering which makes it less elegant. It's still an attractive idea to me. It seems there are two main advantages to the Cylisax over the conical sax... one is the hobby maker can find cylindrical pipes easier than something like specific conical ones (and/or something like size in general, perhaps this sax takes up less space in the case,) and the other could be this it is so very similar to a cylindrical clarinet it might be possible to make an instrument that does both. If this keeps bugging me I will do some experiments but it will be a long time till I have anything if there's even anything there.

[@SquealyD]

changing the length of the branch affects both the overall tuning and also the intonation of the harmonic. ie: it needs to be a certain length to have the 2nd register and octave above the fundamental note

[@ne0romantic]

Thanks again. So if you close the top and create a "way out" low register, is that register sharp or flat? (If you close at the end of the branch?) (at the beginning of the branch?) or is it more complicated and the scale for the low register out of wack as well? It seems it should be possible to make it close anywhere along the branch or even past the end of the branch (if you build one without the bell) and act like it's when longer closed than open, and that this change should practically only affect the added low register when it's closed, so if it's just a question of sharpening or flattening that register maybe just finding the right length to close it to could work?

[@georgijsmolcanovsmastermar533]

Nais Muzick instrument

[@WestphillyRhythmconnection]

Wow!

[@SPLENDIDZEN]

Excellent your musical work with your own hand-made instruments!... one question: the microphone?...

[@SquealyD]

piezobarrel.com

[@SPLENDIDZEN]

Thank you very much Mister LInsey Pollak!... it's an honor to receive your reply!...

[@musicaremcasa7628]

What kind of pickup do you use? I am starting to build experimental instruments of better quality, and I`d love to experiment with pickups like the one you use in your videos. Love your videos,

[@SquealyD]

the one I'm using in this viseo is a Piezo Barrel pickup - piezobarrel.com

[@wouterisawesome]

Play redbone on that

[@sukumarkaikade4352]

Sukumar kaikade

[@Jaisgeo]

Linsey :- trash ? Don't worry I will make it worth 👍👏

[@and7barton]

A damn sight better-sounding than the Venova.......