As a Nay-player for now 40 years I would like to show you how to produce the sound with this technique of various flutes I build. Take a look into my German Shop www.shakuhachi-shop.de
As a flute player who plays cross flutes, vertical notched flutes and pan-pipes from S. America (usually in A-major) , recorders of fipple type mouthpiece ,and also can play the Shakuhachi , I am baffled and mystified on why I can't get a strong tone on a Nay . My friend brought me one from his trip to Turkey . I will keep at it and am glad to find such an experienced instructor who demonstrates detail of lip to diameter bore . This simple act of blowing is difficult to translate to a novice like myself on such an instrument. I have always admired this sound in the Arabic music I listen to in my music collection, particularly belly-dance where I think I'm hearing the Nay . To see all the variety of bamboo flutes in the background is so fascinating to see. I make cross flutes from a mature grove of black bamboo that grows where my former instructor lives next to the American River in CA . I have since moved away, but I still have pieces waiting to be made that are cured and resonant. --From my past observation, the Nay I have played starts on the note B below middle C . The composite pipe length is 28 inches with 3/4 inch diameter. Will come back here because there isn't likely anyone better qualified than you to show me how its done , so I will truly be a miserable fat failure if I don't pick it up here. (half-joking).
yes, you were just real and normal in this clip.,I was looking under bamboo and came across it ,I have a Peruvian bamboo flute that has the notch on the top, someday hope to play it, God guide you on your path., and Thank you again*
Thanks for this video. Aaww, although I am playing other flutes since years, I can't get a tone out of my new rim blown flute. Since two days I am trying and trying for HOURS, watched all tutorials I could find, including this one here, but I can't get a tone out of it... Hope I will get it soon...
Salam, i'm very happy to find you here, i ve just started playing end blown flute. In Morocco we have a many similar end blown flutse, one in particular is played by berber musicians, and it seems to me that it is a mix of kawala and quena flute, they play mainly pentatonic sclaes, but they have 7 holes exactly like the quena, but the blowing technique is more like a kawala. i have a question, is the kawala diatonic or does it have quarter tones? or do you play quarter tones only by uncovering part of the holes? thank you for your answer
thanks for the explanation .. i would suggest to get your website working in english .. some people dont understand dutch .. i am one of them .. i couldn't even shop properly .. just a suggestion my friend
The utaguchi (notch) on the shakuhachi is way too deep making playability an issue such as being able to play meri a semitone and half. The notch typically does not exceed 4 to 5mm on modern Japanese shakuhachis and if you look at an old edo-period shakuhachi it has an utaguchi that is typically 1mm deep. I like your other flutes though.
The eldest Shakuhachi have no utaguchi. And I cannot even count how many Shakuhachis have been sent to me, even from Japan, for restauration because of loose utaguchis and we are talking her 1,5 grand Shaks.
