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Thank you so much! The Duduk is such a beautiful instrument! I appreciate this information so much! Also, I love your accent! Thank you for sharing this with all of us! I'm Native American, so our flutes are very different, but the way our cultures used wind instruments is so similar and beautiful! I'd love to play my flute while a talented duduk player plays their instrument! 😁
WOW! The Universe never surprises me anymore. A couple of months ago I was feeling real depressed and was listening to a lot of my teacher, Mukti, Adyashanti, and Mooji. I downloaded a couple albums from Mooji and was captivated by an instrument I was unfamiliar with. I learned that it was called the Duduk. I then became obsessed with it and started listening to a lot of duduk online. I came across a lovely Lithuanian performer, Saulius Petreikus and some of the masters. I decided to order one online and just received it. Well, it is not easy to get a tone out. At least for me it isn't. I started searching videos and came across your beginners' series and loved the tips on the reeds. Now I am watching this and and decided to check out your facebook page and saw the photo of you and Mooji and then it hit me. You were my first official introduction to Duduk and captivated me with your playing. It's not just technique that captivates one's soul but the presence behind the technique. The love and light that is transmitted. Thank you so much for touching my soul and introducing me to an amazing instrument I hope to develop a wonderful relationship with! And I know it takes time, patience, and a process of letting go. Letting go of the desire to produce music so that I can allow the relaxation needed to produce the sound. Baby steps! It took me two months to get a sound out of my Shakuhachi. I still cannot play that either, but each day I pick it up to get the sounds I can. I am asthmatic and some days breath is a bit scarce so I use the flutes to help me increase my lung capacity. I also so a posting from gummywormjim. I have 6 Native American flutes and each has its own personality. They are much easier to play in terms of breathing. I can get sounds out of those much easier. It's the presence and allowing one to become one with her flute that takes time only because my ego gets in the way. Many blessings to you Karuna! Thank you for introducing me to Duduk!
hello dear frind, thanx for your sharing. In fact it shouldn't be that hard to produce a sound from duduk. If you order it from a proper maker and tell him to make the reeds softer as for a beginner, it all becomes comfortable. I guess your duduk is just maybe not for your level or rather a souvenir thing than a proper instrument for playing, or the one who sold it to you had no idea about how a proper duduk should be. a proper duduk set with 2 reeds can not be less than 150 usd according to the todays market prices. so if it is much less than that, it will be rather not good
@@KarunaDuduk Your last sentence is correct. I got it off Amazon before seeing your tutorials. I'll save up for a better one. That said, I tried another reed and got sound out. So now I know how important the reed is to this instrument!
Thank you so much for your extremely helpful tips! I was really struggling to understand how to properly play my duduk but now it is clearer... Well, a bit :-)
I love your videos. I have a question. My duduk reed leaks air from the leather strips on the side. If I remove the reed and cover the hole in the bottom, I can feel air being forced out the sides, is this normal?
I bought an A Duduk from Vamelo with professional reeds and it plays quite nicely and in tune, but the inside of it looks a little bit rough, like it was only drilled and not sanded. Is it supposed to be as smooth on the inside as it is on the outside? And should I oil the inside?
It shouldn't be rough actually. But Vamelo isn't an expensive brand as well. About oiling watch one of my last videos on this channel which is called Oiling of duduk
@@KarunaDuduk thanks for the fast reply! I probably should have purchased one from one of the famous names, but this one works as a good beginner. I'll smooth out the inside a little to see if it makes a difference.
First of all thanks for the information...very informative. When i played for some time i left the reed to dry out without the cap with the ring up to relax the reed. Know i cant close the cap since the reed is to wide 😢 What can i do?
Squeeze the lips together with your fingers, close the cap tightly, don't touch for couple of days or a week. Keep in a dry warm place, maybe some sunshine could be helpful. See if after it the lips come back to their shape. If not then you need new reeds.
@@coloursofmelancholia hard ones have a wider range of movement in terms of playing higher notes with pressed lips, also the timber of the sound of hard ones is usually better, also the lifetime is longer. It is difficult for the maker to make a good quality nice sounding soft reed
@@KarunaDuduk okay! but i still don´t really understand, if a harder reed has a more muffled sound and a softer reed has a more squeaky sound. is that correct or wrong?
@@coloursofmelancholia i don't know meaning of the words you are using, but anyway it doesn't matter and it is is wrong what you are saying. Because a soft reed also can have a rich sound, lots of overtones while a hard reed does'nt. The opposite can be also true. What I am saying is that a hard reed has a better chance to have a sound nice. The Chance is higher, but it does not mean that is always like this. And on duduk your good skill to produce a nice sound is much more important than having a nice reed. If you cant make a nice sound even a good reed will sound uninteresting
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Really enjoying your videos! And learning a lot. You are a great communicator 🙌
I got my first duduk yesterday at Vernissage
Thank you so much!
The Duduk is such a beautiful instrument! I appreciate this information so much!
Also, I love your accent! Thank you for sharing this with all of us! I'm Native American, so our flutes are very different, but the way our cultures used wind instruments is so similar and beautiful! I'd love to play my flute while a talented duduk player plays their instrument! 😁
Brother Karuna thank you very much for doing these amazing video lessons. I got very informed.
Thanks for making easy to find informations about duduk because i really wanted to play the instrument and this video series can help 👍
Thank you so much for this information!! I recently bought a duduk from Armenia and I am strugling really hard to play it! Thank you again for this!
I was recently given a box of four beautiful duduks and I'm trying to learn as well. Did you end up learning to play?
@@gummywormjim yeap! I posted some videos on my instagram, if you want to check: @greche10
with your info i can take care of my duduk so much better.thank you
WOW! The Universe never surprises me anymore. A couple of months ago I was feeling real depressed and was listening to a lot of my teacher, Mukti, Adyashanti, and Mooji. I downloaded a couple albums from Mooji and was captivated by an instrument I was unfamiliar with. I learned that it was called the Duduk. I then became obsessed with it and started listening to a lot of duduk online. I came across a lovely Lithuanian performer, Saulius Petreikus and some of the masters.
I decided to order one online and just received it. Well, it is not easy to get a tone out. At least for me it isn't. I started searching videos and came across your beginners' series and loved the tips on the reeds. Now I am watching this and and decided to check out your facebook page and saw the photo of you and Mooji and then it hit me. You were my first official introduction to Duduk and captivated me with your playing. It's not just technique that captivates one's soul but the presence behind the technique. The love and light that is transmitted. Thank you so much for touching my soul and introducing me to an amazing instrument I hope to develop a wonderful relationship with!
And I know it takes time, patience, and a process of letting go. Letting go of the desire to produce music so that I can allow the relaxation needed to produce the sound. Baby steps! It took me two months to get a sound out of my Shakuhachi. I still cannot play that either, but each day I pick it up to get the sounds I can. I am asthmatic and some days breath is a bit scarce so I use the flutes to help me increase my lung capacity.
I also so a posting from gummywormjim. I have 6 Native American flutes and each has its own personality. They are much easier to play in terms of breathing. I can get sounds out of those much easier. It's the presence and allowing one to become one with her flute that takes time only because my ego gets in the way.
Many blessings to you Karuna! Thank you for introducing me to Duduk!
hello dear frind, thanx for your sharing. In fact it shouldn't be that hard to produce a sound from duduk. If you order it from a proper maker and tell him to make the reeds softer as for a beginner, it all becomes comfortable. I guess your duduk is just maybe not for your level or rather a souvenir thing than a proper instrument for playing, or the one who sold it to you had no idea about how a proper duduk should be. a proper duduk set with 2 reeds can not be less than 150 usd according to the todays market prices. so if it is much less than that, it will be rather not good
@@KarunaDuduk Your last sentence is correct. I got it off Amazon before seeing your tutorials. I'll save up for a better one. That said, I tried another reed and got sound out. So now I know how important the reed is to this instrument!
Thank you so much for your extremely helpful tips! I was really struggling to understand how to properly play my duduk but now it is clearer... Well, a bit :-)
Thank you very much for making these videos in English. The information you shared in this one was incredibly useful!
I've got the 3.A lot of tears!😂
I love your videos. I have a question. My duduk reed leaks air from the leather strips on the side. If I remove the reed and cover the hole in the bottom, I can feel air being forced out the sides, is this normal?
I guess you have a broken reed. Or at least you need new leather strips
@@KarunaDuduk great. Thank you.
"It depends on what kind of woman you prefer to cry"
I bought an A Duduk from Vamelo with professional reeds and it plays quite nicely and in tune, but the inside of it looks a little bit rough, like it was only drilled and not sanded. Is it supposed to be as smooth on the inside as it is on the outside? And should I oil the inside?
It shouldn't be rough actually. But Vamelo isn't an expensive brand as well.
About oiling watch one of my last videos on this channel which is called Oiling of duduk
@@KarunaDuduk thanks for the fast reply! I probably should have purchased one from one of the famous names, but this one works as a good beginner. I'll smooth out the inside a little to see if it makes a difference.
It depends on what kind of woman you prefer to cry hahaha
Thank you so much for this!
Would you have any recommendation on where to buy a good quality beginner Duduk ?
Please write to me using my contacts in the description to this or other videos. To some messenger so Skype
First of all thanks for the information...very informative. When i played for some time i left the reed to dry out without the cap with the ring up to relax the reed. Know i cant close the cap since the reed is to wide 😢 What can i do?
Squeeze the lips together with your fingers, close the cap tightly, don't touch for couple of days or a week. Keep in a dry warm place, maybe some sunshine could be helpful. See if after it the lips come back to their shape. If not then you need new reeds.
Namaste Karuna. I have a son named Karún too. For Karuna.
:)
I played indian bansury and iranian nay
But all of them is not beautiful like armanian doduk
It has god voice actually
hey, dude! what´s the difference between soft, medium and hard reeds?
Difference in air pressure to produce the sound. The harder the reed the harder to blow for making sound. Professionals play hard ones.
@@KarunaDuduk thanks! but is there any difference in the sound? is a harder one more muffled and a softer one more squeaky?
@@coloursofmelancholia hard ones have a wider range of movement in terms of playing higher notes with pressed lips, also the timber of the sound of hard ones is usually better, also the lifetime is longer. It is difficult for the maker to make a good quality nice sounding soft reed
@@KarunaDuduk okay! but i still don´t really understand, if a harder reed has a more muffled sound and a softer reed has a more squeaky sound. is that correct or wrong?
@@coloursofmelancholia i don't know meaning of the words you are using, but anyway it doesn't matter and it is is wrong what you are saying. Because a soft reed also can have a rich sound, lots of overtones while a hard reed does'nt. The opposite can be also true. What I am saying is that a hard reed has a better chance to have a sound nice. The Chance is higher, but it does not mean that is always like this. And on duduk your good skill to produce a nice sound is much more important than having a nice reed. If you cant make a nice sound even a good reed will sound uninteresting