Jason,
You are like an old Zen Patriarch, working away at the Way of Flute
Making. I'd love to get one of your flutes. Any way you'd part with
one?
Nicholas
On Apr 29, 2005, at 3:43 PM, JASON CASTNER wrote:
> WOW, lots of difficult questions... :) just kidding
>
> MY CULMS - Some of them I saw off even at a node.
> others I left the way they were because I like the
> natural, just broke off because of wind/water storms
> look. looks really cool.... They are all different
> lenghts, widths, and colors. some are like a 1.3
> shakuhachi or smaller - a couple are like 6 inches
> long. I make the small ones with 5 or 6 small finger
> holes on the front side. no thumb holes. small
> flutes are cool because the sound pierces the air and
> travels extremely far. some are as big as 3.0 or
> larger. and then all sizes inbetween. some are big
> as my wrist in diameter, others like 1/2 in diameter.
> colors range from brown and black to white and tiger
> stripped.
>
> Some of the culms tapper naturally, others I will burn
> with different sized rods and manipulate a tapper if
> possible. sometimes u dont need a tappered bore and
> somehow 2 octaves come out great???? I dont know why.
>
> some have 2 nodes, a few exceptional ones have a nice
> curve at the bottom and have 7 or 8 nodes and look
> like a proper shaku.
>
> without sanding the bore they sound clean yet raspy
> and buzzy. after sanding they sound like clean and
> glassy and peircing. they respond faster as well.
> river cane vibrates easier than dense/heavy bamboo.
> sound is vibration.
>
> working out finger hole positions isnt hard. just
> think how many fingers do you have, how far can they
> reach or how close can they be and still be
> comfortable. then how high or how low should the
> first hole be and go from there. I use a tuner as
> well. and start with a small rod 1/8 inch maybe???
> didnt measure it. and work up to bigger and bigger
> rods untill I get a nice sound. then move on to the
> next hole.
>
> 2 ways to make flutes - intelligence and intuition. I
> rely more on intuition. but intuition means more
> mistakes perhaps, however out of 50 or 60 flutes that
> I have made I only burned away 6 or 7 because they
> sucked.
>
> jason
>
>
>
>
> --- Tuscia-Falconer <falconer@enternet.co.nz> wrote:
>> Jason, how are you working out the position of your
>> finger holes ?
>> Are your culms all different lengths ?
>> Are they tapered ?
>> How many nodes do they have ?
>> You say that firstt you burn out the bore, shape
>> your utaguchi, get your
>> sound then sand out the bore. What changes in sound
>> are you noticing between
>> the 'burn out' and the 'sand out' ? Perhaps because
>> you have not made finger
>> holes at this point there is not as much change as
>> there might be if you
>> already had the finger holes.
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>> Kel.
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