Comparing Some Different Kaval Types 

Hi friend. As a player of various world flutes (including Turkish ney), I would reccommend quenacho and/or bansuri to you. Both of these flutes have the same fingering with Irish whistle and Irish flute (they are all tuned to the diatonic scale). However, quenacho & bansuri have much larger holes, allowing for various ornamentations and chromatic playing (which would be extremely difficult on Irish whistle). Ornamentations on these flutes would allow for playing most traditional asian & middle eastern music, as well as contemporary music such as jazz or blues. However, if you want to play the Turkish makams, then you need an instrument which allows for easily bending the notes. Traditional Turkish makams have some silghtly sharper and flatter notes, which would be impossible to play on a western instrument with fixed frequencies. Clarinet & violin would be your best bet among western instruments. Or you may also learn some traditional Turkish instrument, such as the ney :)

"Romanian" Kaval is just a name. This type is used all around Balkan. In Serbia its Called Cevara for example. Its common and I don't think it has anything to do with Romania or Serbia or Moldova.

Thanks man :-)

yes cool story :)

Hi, i have one question about it. Those tuning holes on kaval flute are just for better sound of flute? For example you don't play them or don't close them for changing a pitch? I'm really interested in it!

new tutorials coming up!

yep :-)

thanks!

order matters for sure, see it like the frets on a guitar , same thing- the shorter the distance to the top of the flute , the higher pitch :-)

@@1fujara Cool, thanks! I like to make instruments, and i planned a flute from stainless steel tube, but didn't know how to play with it:D I made kalimbas and guitars, but also had great results in jew's harp making, and my next goal is a flute.

Www.fujaraflutes.com

From Turks

@@nikostselempertzidis8943 They helped, but its not originally from Turks.

Oh dear here we go... it's just a name commonly used for this scale, and a scale used in "gipsy" music.Therefore easy for people to understand... I am not calling anybody a gipsy, by the way I think Gipsys are cool, don't you?

Winne Clement it s not about calling anybody gipsy it s about not knowing stuff about instruments you talk about. I understand that it s easy for you to use a common name for something that may seem to be gipsy scale but it s whrong, try to read more before mixing things just for the sake of simplicity.

Ok fair enough, I am in it for the sounds and music, not as much for historical or cultural correctness. So please let's be constructive and instead of wasting our time being offended, this was the last goal of this video, tell us what you know, what is incorrect and inform us! Always open to learn, cheers!

vlad silviu you suck

Owen Wardlaw We are Romanians, and we want to protect our traditions. Don't get us wrong, we love Winnie's videos. We just want him to know things about the origins of the instruments.

That's maybe why I call it Romanian "style" flute? As "in the style of" ?? This is my own personal version, I don't think wrong mesurements exist by the way...