This is great because I play guitar and my partner plays flute. Hopefully I can successfully make a homemade flute for them and a homemade box guitar for myself. It will be fun!
Thank you so much for this video. I am gonna try to make my first flute this weekend. I live in a tiny house on wheels and always wanted to make my own flute. Warm greetings from an artist from the Czech republic ❤
Very nice...I made a couple of Native American based flutes and for the base tuning on longer flutes I made holes at the underside at the end of the flute..the same like cutting of the wood..I will try this flute too one af these days..nice woodwork you have.
I really wanna say big thanks to you,I'm searching for hundreds of tutorial on this process but they showed me how they have made,but you showed me how to make,thank you so much ❤️🙏
Thank you buddy. Lot of people asked me quite a few questions about my first flute-making video. So I realized that most tutorials are made by people who are often really good at their craft, but they take lot of things for granted, not mentioning many smaller things and details. But these smaller things are still very important. Thanks to the people who contacted me after thie first vid this video could be made, hopefully capturing all the smaller things, that beginners can use. Good luck with your flutes
Wow! If i were allowed to exercise my vocabulary (swear) while im working I have no doubt I would be able to make a flute like that. BUT HOW THE HELL AM I GOING TO LEARN TO PLAY LIKE THAT??!! Damn thats beautiful!!
Hey thank you mate! playing these flutes is, in fact not that difficult (making them is the difficult part!), with little bit of training you will get there for sure :)
This is a very good probably one of the best instructional videos that I've seen. Thank you very much for your thoroughness on fluke construction.the diagrams charts and percentages are very useful to have on the phone where they're handy. Again thank you and blessed be.
Hi there, thanks! I tried to mention all the points wievers have been asking me, and explain in a way that even beginner would understand. Good luck with your project.
Wow love the sound it produces , you did a great job , I’m impressed to give this a try , I was confused with other peoples videos on the tuning, I didn’t know if I was suppose to cover the holes as I made them or leave them open as you did in the tuning process , now I know to leave them open till I get the note I need for each one , made a huge difference , your instrument sounds beautiful. Love it. 👍, like and subscribed . Thank you.
The cork position in the length of the inside diameter from the center of the embouchure. Say your inside diameter is 1.5cm...make a mark 1.5cm from the end of your wooden dowel and push the cork from the root note end until the mark aligns with the center of the embouchure hole. That's a good start! Good luck!
Haha, thank you Ariel! I actually experimented with making flutes and others instruments since I was 15 or so. I always wanted to play irish flute, but they were impossible to get in my country and buying them from abroad was too expensive for me at the time. So I just decided to try making one myself. The first ones were terrible of course, but eventually I figured things out, later my friends asked for my flutes as well, and after that word spread fast. The rest is history :)
You are my savior. My wife and i are getting by financially, but i want to make something meaningful for her. Her (deceased) father was a man of the wilds, teaching himself native american languages and crafts. Something she told me was he made her mother a flute for mothers day. I want to craft one for my wife to keep traditions and woodwork alive. Thank you for being you.
Eu o agradeco muito voce como um proficonal, que compartilhia com nosco e responda com clareza nossas perguntas e os comentarios, blz grande amigo!!!!nota 1000!!!!!!!!!
Fantastic information. Been looking for answers and you've provided charts as well. I turn wood as a hobby and a friend asked if I could make him a flute with Celtic knots. I wasn't quite sure where or how to start but this helps out tremendously. Question though if you don't mind. He wants a flute with a window gap as to be played from the front rather than the top, and I was wondering if there was a specific angle that it needed to be at. Thank you for your time and for this fantastic video.
While tuning, how do you get the higher octaves in tune with the low octave while not changing the low octave? Do you enlarge the holes in a certain way? I made a flute but the low and high octaves are out of sync with each other and I don't know how to fix it. Thanks a lot!
Hello mate, this is actually quite complicated problem, which would be worth making video of its own. Which I may do once I have the time. To keep the answer short, you can make the hole sound higher in the higher octave, while affecting the lower octave only slightly with couple of methods. The easiest one is to make the hole conical instead of cylindrical. conical = the hole is bigger on the inside and smaller on the outside cylindrical = the hole has same diameter all the way through But again it is more coplicated than this to get the perfect sound, I may cover it in some future video. Try using the trick I desribe above, It should fix your problem, or atleast improve it significantly. If your flute is too off (difference between higher and lower octave in several tones at the same hole) than there is something else going wrong as well - wall too thin or thick, bad material, some hidden crack etc. Good luck!
thank you so much for this great content. tbh though, it looks absolutely impossible to me to get to handcraft that wooden tube, perfectly straight and with that perfectly straight hole :O i saw the tool you used in the other vid, but yet.
Hello there, well no worries, the flute doesnt have to be straight at all. Watch my other flute videos, I am using a crooked tree branch as a flute material and it works just fine.
Thank you for sharing. I do have a question, though. Do you find that having a flat mouth opening is better than a traditional raised opening as in the silver flute profile when getting a better , or should I say with a less hesitation in the production of sound. The silver flute allows for lip placement. So, would it also be possible to make a wooden version of that type of lip plate? Have you ever made a flute with a separate head joint or tunable slide joint?
Hi Really like your videos. I have had a go at making a high D whistle out of Elder. The B note sounds a bit flat. This is putting my left finger on the hole nearest the mouth piece, all of the other holes being open. Please could you tell me if making any of the other holes bigger would help, or if there is anything else I can do. I like the sound or it and the Elder is lovely to work with. The mouth piece is a high D Tony Dixon already made, so I cheated a bit. I have deliberately made all of the holes a bit smaller in case I needed to adjust. Kind regards John
Great video my friend , you have a very relaxing way of teaching which makes it a joy to watch. One question if I could, I have some roe dear fore and hind leg bones , being a lot shorter than your flute would they make a useable flute. Many thanks.
Hello mate. You can use bones as well, actually the first flutes and whistles were made of bone (fun fact - the oldest musical instrument found is a bone whistle). If the bone is too short, you follow the same techniques I describe here, but you will only make 1-3 holes (depending on the actualy size of the bone you gonna use). The flute will work, it just won´t play the full scale. Glad you like the video, thanks!
Amazing work, thanks. I am planning to make mine from cherry wood or any other dry wood or branch I could find but I have a question here: Should the form of the wood that I am going to start work with has to be branch form (originally syllindiric) or can I use any part of the wood which is cut from the body of the tree (I mean can I use the wood which is not originally syllindiric). Does that make any difference? And lastly, do you have any preferred kind of tree to make a flute or can I use any of them?
Late answer, but to your qustions: You can use any part of the wood, just make sure, it is seasoned properly, so it won´t warp once you are done making the flute. I recommend using wood without knots, but that is personal taste really. I like to use Ash and Cherry the most, but any hardwood can be used.
Awesome tutorial! But do you let these season in the sunlight for weeks, or indoor climate control. And also, where did you get that drill bit? I haven't seen one like it I have a 16" 3/4 bit, but it's a lot different than yours.
Awesome video buddy, it helped a lot. I play flutes for a few years so now throught lockdown I started to make my own ones but I struggled with tunning a lot haha. I suppose that calculation is applicable even for different kinds of flutes and whistles ? :) I mean, what if I have different number of holes ?
Hello there mate, glad to hear you find it helpful! The calculation is definetly applicable to different kinds of flutes and whistles. If you decide to make and traditional irish flute for example (which has two more holes at the bottom, eight holes in total, though the two bottom holes are not played) you start by cutting those two calibration holes and than tune them to get your bottom note (traditionally that would be D). Than you continue you the same way I describe in this video, except the value "total length" (in case of this video 386mm) would be measured from the embouchere to the first of these calibration holes. Other flutes (pentatonic flutes etc.) can usually use similiar systems. The best way to find out is to go and give it a try, Good luck!
Thank you for your video, I. Going to try making one,. Can you use any hardwood for the body? I would like to try with Arbutus as it is such a lovely wood
Hi there, thanks, regarding the Arbutus - I have never used it, but I have used many different hardwood and almost always with good results. Give it a try, good luck!
Hey, thanks a lot for this tuto! Don't know if you will see my com BUT how did you empty the stick?? I have no hard gear and I don't want to split it and using glue. Tx Have a nice day 👌
hello nice video!! What's the name of the tool used to hollow the wood? I mean to hollow the stick? I suppose is a hand drill but I can't find those with a handle and a long bit
Thank you!! This is fabulous and I have been wanting to find some who explains as well as you do 😀. Do you know if this works well with mulberry or other fruit woods? Kind regards from Australia
Glad to help mate! I never tried mulberry, as it is not very common here. But I am pretty sure it will work great. All fruit woods work perfectly as flute material, I have tried using wood of apple,pear,plum,cherry and few others. And they all work great 🙂
Hello there! if you are looking for a wooden one, easiest way to make one is to use a wood lathe. But if you just want to give this a try, and not buy any expensive equipment, you can use plastic pipe from hardware store, the sound won´t be anything special, but it will work.
Have you found the same calculations for finger holes applies accurately to varying keys? eg. 17.8% from end of flute etc. Is this the same for all keys, like D, C, A etc.?
Hello there, basically yes. The problem you might ran to, is that you have to not only increase the length of the pipe when you go for lower key flutes, but you also have to increase the inner diameter. (and vice versa for higher keys) I don´t really have reliable formula to calculate the required increase of diameter. I basically know from experience what diameter to use for common keys. And if go for key I don´t make often (or never made before) I have a good reference point (for ex. If I want to make flute in Eb and I never made one before, I just use slightly smaller diameter than I use for D). If you lack that experience you might have to experiment a little yourself and find the the correct numbers. You can also look at existing flutes sizes, in a key you go for, to find a good starting point.
One thing im confused about for tuning, if i want to tune to a different note, is how long i should make it. Yours measured at 386mm which when you caluclate the fundamental frequency you get (speed of sound)/(2×386mm) which is 440 hz, which is an A4 note, but the initial tuning here had it playing at a g4, which is 391hz. How does this work?
Awesome video man and thank you for your effort! 🙂🙏🏻 Just a little question: Do you mean with the length from the blowing hole to the bottom, that you measure from the „center“ of the blowing hole to the bottom?
So it's less important where the holes go so long as they're evenly spaced and more importantly each hole diameter is altered for correct tuning.......correct?
Thanks very much, this was very helpful, I personally have problems while making my second octave sound with wooden flutes, I can get it on tune with PVC but have no idea why it doesn´t sound on tune with my wooden ones. Any idea why? Thanks a lot for the video, nice playing btw ;)
Se me ocurre que podría ser que el pvc es de interior preciso, es decir, tiene de fábrica la misma medida de diameteo interior preciso en todo su recorrido a lo largo. Debería asegurarse de que su pieza de madera también sea perfecto en diámetro interior en todo su recorrido. Espero ser comprendido y estar correcto.
Very nice! ❤🙏 I would like to ask you if the distances (percentages) for the holes are kept for tubes with different diameters, for example 13 mm, 16 mm. Thank you!
Porcentage formula. (total lenght of your flute (blowing hole to the bottom)) -> 100 x-------------------------------------------------------------------> (Respective hole %)
Hello, nice tutorial , I recently just made one with plastic tube :) On Chinese flute there's a hole between the blow and the first finger hole, it's used for a piece of resonance tape, What's your opinion about this hole? is it necessary?
It is a rectangle with well rounded corners, roughly 8x1.1 mm You can make it slightly different size though. Bigger hole will be louder, but also require more air to play.
I’m no expert, but I think a flute needs length. Not a lot of length, but enough so that the air can do its thing before it leaves the pipe. I’d take a stick that’s twice as long and just drill into both ends to hollow it out. Then just use some sandpaper or something on a rod to smooth the middle.
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Well, so far this is the best wooden flutemaking tutorial on RUclips.
I CAN'T believe this video exists. I'm so happy!! Thank you!
You're welcome
This is great because I play guitar and my partner plays flute. Hopefully I can successfully make a homemade flute for them and a homemade box guitar for myself. It will be fun!
Sounds great, good luck with the build!
Beautiful! Excellent instructions- this is easily the best video on RUclips on how to make a wooden flute. 👏👏👏
Love the vid. It’s professional and easy to understand.
Thanks mate
Thank you so much for this video. I am gonna try to make my first flute this weekend. I live in a tiny house on wheels and always wanted to make my own flute. Warm greetings from an artist from the Czech republic ❤
Zdravím a díky, ať se dílo daří!
@@JJChWorkshopooo, dekuji moc
Thank you for this vid! Might be my next lockdown project 👍
I am sure it will turn great!
Very nice...I made a couple of Native American based flutes and for the base tuning on longer flutes I made holes at the underside at the end of the flute..the same like cutting of the wood..I will try this flute too one af these days..nice woodwork you have.
This is fantastic! Thank you so much for making this video
sounds like I got myself my holiday project
I really wanna say big thanks to you,I'm searching for hundreds of tutorial on this process but they showed me how they have made,but you showed me how to make,thank you so much ❤️🙏
Thank you buddy. Lot of people asked me quite a few questions about my first flute-making video. So I realized that most tutorials are made by people who are often really good at their craft, but they take lot of things for granted, not mentioning many smaller things and details. But these smaller things are still very important.
Thanks to the people who contacted me after thie first vid this video could be made, hopefully capturing all the smaller things, that beginners can use. Good luck with your flutes
Это лучший урок по изготовлению флейты ❤️❤️❤️ Спасибо ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
This video is MUCH better than the first one. Thank you very much for the additional information!!
Glad it was helpful mate. More videos coming!
Nice tuit. for the toot. 👏👏
Your videos are so cool! You are an excellent wood worker!
Thank you, i do my best!
I’ve just found your channel and I love all your videos, thanks so much!
Glad to help, thanks
Really excellent tuto!
Thank you very much!
That was a great pleasure to watch the whole process.
Thank you, glad you like it!
Wow! If i were allowed to exercise my vocabulary (swear) while im working I have no doubt I would be able to make a flute like that. BUT HOW THE HELL AM I GOING TO LEARN TO PLAY LIKE THAT??!! Damn thats beautiful!!
Hey thank you mate! playing these flutes is, in fact not that difficult (making them is the difficult part!), with little bit of training you will get there for sure :)
Amazing! Thanks for this video, I might give it a go!
This is a very good probably one of the best instructional videos that I've seen. Thank you very much for your thoroughness on fluke construction.the diagrams charts and percentages are very useful to have on the phone where they're handy. Again thank you and blessed be.
Glad to help!
Really nice video, very clear and useful. It is exactly what I was looking for. Your playing is amazing too. Thanks a lot!
Thanks for watching, glad you like it mate
Very good! Ótimo trabalho e arte! Lindo som e flauta muito bem feita. Saudações do Brasil!
Obrigado! e olá ao Brasil!
Great video. And I loved Cooley’s reel at the end.
Glad you enjoyed it, thanks!
Nice! Thanks for the video and the awesome sea of information! I really appreciate the time and effort :) Can't wait to start on making my flute!
Hi there, thanks!
I tried to mention all the points wievers have been asking me, and explain in a way that even beginner would understand. Good luck with your project.
@@JJChWorkshop Yes, I believe we talked a bit about that on Facebook and I must say, you really nailed it. Very well explained and to the point!
Thank you for this wonderful video.
Glad you like it!
Wow love the sound it produces , you did a great job , I’m impressed to give this a try , I was confused with other peoples videos on the tuning, I didn’t know if I was suppose to cover the holes as I made them or leave them open as you did in the tuning process , now I know to leave them open till I get the note I need for each one , made a huge difference , your instrument sounds beautiful. Love it. 👍, like and subscribed . Thank you.
Thank you very much! Glad the video helped mate
Great video, you deserve more likes. Please teach us more!
Thanks captain! More projects are on the way.
Felicitaciones muy buen trabajo!!!!!!
Desde Ecuador
Muchas gracias
Thank you so much! Im total begginer, and i think i can try to make my own flute now!
Glad to help mate, good luck!
Thanks a lot for the video! Very nice of you.
My pleasure!
what tool do i need to make the intial long hole? are those premade?
Great vid just the information I needed, thanks for sharing.👍
Glad you found it useful John, thanks!
This is great!
I bought a wooden pentatonic flute but couldn’t make it sound!
The cork position in the length of the inside diameter from the center of the embouchure. Say your inside diameter is 1.5cm...make a mark 1.5cm from the end of your wooden dowel and push the cork from the root note end until the mark aligns with the center of the embouchure hole. That's a good start! Good luck!
This video is literally an answered prayer!! 💗
Man you even get the second octave to sound amazing!
Where did you learn all of this?!
Haha, thank you Ariel!
I actually experimented with making flutes and others instruments since I was 15 or so. I always wanted to play irish flute, but they were impossible to get in my country and buying them from abroad was too expensive for me at the time. So I just decided to try making one myself. The first ones were terrible of course, but eventually I figured things out, later my friends asked for my flutes as well, and after that word spread fast. The rest is history :)
Thank you so much for your hard work! Can't wait to try this soon!
Great job. Well done
You are my savior. My wife and i are getting by financially, but i want to make something meaningful for her. Her (deceased) father was a man of the wilds, teaching himself native american languages and crafts. Something she told me was he made her mother a flute for mothers day. I want to craft one for my wife to keep traditions and woodwork alive. Thank you for being you.
Thank you and good luck with the flute!
Gracias amigo desde Chile!!
Encantado de ayudar!
Everything is absolutely clear, thanks for your work.
P.S. You have a wonderful channel, I wish you inspiration.
Thank you very much!
Eu o agradeco muito voce como um proficonal, que compartilhia com nosco e responda com clareza nossas perguntas e os comentarios, blz grande amigo!!!!nota 1000!!!!!!!!!
I recognise that celtic tune...? Enjoyed this video! Thanks!
Yes, it is called South wind, I am sure you´ve heard it before, thanks!
Hi i'm Sri lankan
Thanks for your video
Hey Shashi, glad to help
Fantastic information. Been looking for answers and you've provided charts as well. I turn wood as a hobby and a friend asked if I could make him a flute with Celtic knots. I wasn't quite sure where or how to start but this helps out tremendously. Question though if you don't mind. He wants a flute with a window gap as to be played from the front rather than the top, and I was wondering if there was a specific angle that it needed to be at. Thank you for your time and for this fantastic video.
fantastic work, thank you so much
Glad you liked it!
While tuning, how do you get the higher octaves in tune with the low octave while not changing the low octave? Do you enlarge the holes in a certain way? I made a flute but the low and high octaves are out of sync with each other and I don't know how to fix it. Thanks a lot!
Hello mate, this is actually quite complicated problem, which would be worth making video of its own. Which I may do once I have the time.
To keep the answer short, you can make the hole sound higher in the higher octave, while affecting the lower octave only slightly with couple of methods. The easiest one is to make the hole conical instead of cylindrical.
conical = the hole is bigger on the inside and smaller on the outside
cylindrical = the hole has same diameter all the way through
But again it is more coplicated than this to get the perfect sound, I may cover it in some future video. Try using the trick I desribe above, It should fix your problem, or atleast improve it significantly. If your flute is too off (difference between higher and lower octave in several tones at the same hole) than there is something else going wrong as well - wall too thin or thick, bad material, some hidden crack etc.
Good luck!
Thanks for the great video, it really helped me a lot👍
Glad to hear that, thanks!
Hi! Excellent video. Where do you get a wooden tube?
good tutorial
Awesome video 🙏
Thank you 🙌
thank you so much for this great content. tbh though, it looks absolutely impossible to me to get to handcraft that wooden tube, perfectly straight and with that perfectly straight hole :O i saw the tool you used in the other vid, but yet.
Hello there, well no worries, the flute doesnt have to be straight at all. Watch my other flute videos, I am using a crooked tree branch as a flute material and it works just fine.
Great job, thanks for posting this!
My pleasure!
Thank you for sharing. I do have a question, though. Do you find that having a flat mouth opening is better than a traditional raised opening as in the silver flute profile when getting a better , or should I say with a less hesitation in the production of sound. The silver flute allows for lip placement. So, would it also be possible to make a wooden version of that type of lip plate? Have you ever made a flute with a separate head joint or tunable slide joint?
Loved this man
Appreciate the passion you have in making this come together
Hey, thank you!
Hi
Really like your videos.
I have had a go at making a high D whistle out of Elder.
The B note sounds a bit flat. This is putting my left finger on the hole nearest the mouth piece, all of the other holes being open.
Please could you tell me if making any of the other holes bigger would help, or if there is anything else I can do.
I like the sound or it and the Elder is lovely to work with. The mouth piece is a high D Tony Dixon already made, so I cheated a bit. I have deliberately made all of the holes a bit smaller in case I needed to adjust.
Kind regards
John
Great video my friend , you have a very relaxing way of teaching which makes it a joy to watch. One question if I could, I have some roe dear fore and hind leg bones , being a lot shorter than your flute would they make a useable flute. Many thanks.
Hello mate. You can use bones as well, actually the first flutes and whistles were made of bone (fun fact - the oldest musical instrument found is a bone whistle).
If the bone is too short, you follow the same techniques I describe here, but you will only make 1-3 holes (depending on the actualy size of the bone you gonna use). The flute will work, it just won´t play the full scale.
Glad you like the video, thanks!
@@JJChWorkshop thank you for replying mate. I'm very interested in the way of our stone age ancestors . I will make a start and see how it turns out.
Great video. If I wanted instead a flute in C (c4 / c'), what lenght should it be? Thanks!
Man thank you so much 🙏🙏 Its work 😅👍👍
Amazing work, thanks. I am planning to make mine from cherry wood or any other dry wood or branch I could find but I have a question here: Should the form of the wood that I am going to start work with has to be branch form (originally syllindiric) or can I use any part of the wood which is cut from the body of the tree (I mean can I use the wood which is not originally syllindiric). Does that make any difference? And lastly, do you have any preferred kind of tree to make a flute or can I use any of them?
Late answer, but to your qustions:
You can use any part of the wood, just make sure, it is seasoned properly, so it won´t warp once you are done making the flute. I recommend using wood without knots, but that is personal taste really.
I like to use Ash and Cherry the most, but any hardwood can be used.
Thanks!
Big thanks to you!
Awesome tutorial!
But do you let these season in the sunlight for weeks, or indoor climate control.
And also, where did you get that drill bit? I haven't seen one like it
I have a 16" 3/4 bit, but it's a lot different than yours.
Awesome video buddy, it helped a lot. I play flutes for a few years so now throught lockdown I started to make my own ones but I struggled with tunning a lot haha. I suppose that calculation is applicable even for different kinds of flutes and whistles ? :) I mean, what if I have different number of holes ?
Hello there mate, glad to hear you find it helpful! The calculation is definetly applicable to different kinds of flutes and whistles.
If you decide to make and traditional irish flute for example (which has two more holes at the bottom, eight holes in total, though the two bottom holes are not played) you start by cutting those two calibration holes and than tune them to get your bottom note (traditionally that would be D). Than you continue you the same way I describe in this video, except the value "total length" (in case of this video 386mm) would be measured from the embouchere to the first of these calibration holes.
Other flutes (pentatonic flutes etc.) can usually use similiar systems. The best way to find out is to go and give it a try, Good luck!
Have a search on the internet for a program called ‘Flutomat’ - it’s fairly sophisticated and should help with all the calculations.
Great videos mate!
Thanks mate, glad you like them
Thank you for your video, I. Going to try making one,. Can you use any hardwood for the body? I would like to try with Arbutus as it is such a lovely wood
Hi there, thanks, regarding the Arbutus - I have never used it, but I have used many different hardwood and almost always with good results. Give it a try, good luck!
Hey, thanks a lot for this tuto! Don't know if you will see my com BUT how did you empty the stick?? I have no hard gear and I don't want to split it and using glue. Tx
Have a nice day 👌
hello nice video!! What's the name of the tool used to hollow the wood? I mean to hollow the stick? I suppose is a hand drill but I can't find those with a handle and a long bit
Thank you!! This is fabulous and I have been wanting to find some who explains as well as you do 😀. Do you know if this works well with mulberry or other fruit woods? Kind regards from Australia
Glad to help mate! I never tried mulberry, as it is not very common here. But I am pretty sure it will work great. All fruit woods work perfectly as flute material, I have tried using wood of apple,pear,plum,cherry and few others. And they all work great 🙂
Thank you so much for this amazing video. Can you tell me how you make or where to buy the hollow flute pipe?
Hello there! if you are looking for a wooden one, easiest way to make one is to use a wood lathe.
But if you just want to give this a try, and not buy any expensive equipment, you can use plastic pipe from hardware store, the sound won´t be anything special, but it will work.
Have you found the same calculations for finger holes applies accurately to varying keys? eg. 17.8% from end of flute etc. Is this the same for all keys, like D, C, A etc.?
Hello there, basically yes. The problem you might ran to, is that you have to not only increase the length of the pipe when you go for lower key flutes, but you also have to increase the inner diameter. (and vice versa for higher keys)
I don´t really have reliable formula to calculate the required increase of diameter. I basically know from experience what diameter to use for common keys. And if go for key I don´t make often (or never made before) I have a good reference point (for ex. If I want to make flute in Eb and I never made one before, I just use slightly smaller diameter than I use for D).
If you lack that experience you might have to experiment a little yourself and find the the correct numbers. You can also look at existing flutes sizes, in a key you go for, to find a good starting point.
One thing im confused about for tuning, if i want to tune to a different note, is how long i should make it. Yours measured at 386mm which when you caluclate the fundamental frequency you get (speed of sound)/(2×386mm) which is 440 hz, which is an A4 note, but the initial tuning here had it playing at a g4, which is 391hz. How does this work?
What drill are you using to hollow out the wood? I’m looking to purchase one.
Awesome video man and thank you for your effort! 🙂🙏🏻
Just a little question:
Do you mean with the length from the blowing hole to the bottom, that you measure from the „center“ of the blowing hole to the bottom?
Got a short 192mm F flute.
Made the first hole at 17.8% but it's G♭ at best instead of G. However the second hole (+7.5%) is a solid G instead of A. 🤔
Not sure you will see this .. but if you do .. where can i buy and learn to play such a flute .. before i start making my own 😅
So it's less important where the holes go so long as they're evenly spaced and more importantly each hole diameter is altered for correct tuning.......correct?
Grazie d'all Italia.Grazie!!!
Felice di aiutare! :)
Is the spacing formula different for different keys?
Is there a trick to drilling out the wood lengthwise to make sure you drill accurately or is that a matter of experience and trying it out many times?
Sharp drill and steady hand my friend, you might use piece of wood with bigger diameter for start, to allow for some error.
Sir please explain about defferent diamensions and thickness
Thanks very much, this was very helpful, I personally have problems while making my second octave sound with wooden flutes, I can get it on tune with PVC but have no idea why it doesn´t sound on tune with my wooden ones. Any idea why? Thanks a lot for the video, nice playing btw ;)
Se me ocurre que podría ser que el pvc es de interior preciso, es decir, tiene de fábrica la misma medida de diameteo interior preciso en todo su recorrido a lo largo. Debería asegurarse de que su pieza de madera también sea perfecto en diámetro interior en todo su recorrido. Espero ser comprendido y estar correcto.
Very nice! ❤🙏
I would like to ask you if the distances (percentages) for the holes are kept for tubes with different diameters, for example 13 mm, 16 mm. Thank you!
Yes you can, unless you go too crazy, the percentage will be the same even for different diamteres (13 and 16mm is fine).
@@JJChWorkshop Thank you!
Grazie per il video. Avrei una domanda: come disinfettare il flauto di pan in legno e cosa utilizzare? Grazie mille in anticipo ☺️
What about the ID hole that is the most important how did you make that
what do yo mean by the ID hole?
inside diameter @@JJChWorkshop
What is the formula if you want to do any other scale? Nice video it helped me a lot
Porcentage formula.
(total lenght of your flute (blowing hole to the bottom)) -> 100
x-------------------------------------------------------------------> (Respective hole %)
Hello, nice tutorial , I recently just made one with plastic tube :)
On Chinese flute there's a hole between the blow and the first finger hole, it's used for a piece of resonance tape,
What's your opinion about this hole? is it necessary?
Good job! There is thumb hole on recorder flutes as well, but for most flutes it is not neccesary in my opinion.
What is the name of the tool that you used to bore the chamber?
Excelent job ! Are you Czech or Slovak ? I was not sure..., but I see Hekules glue on your table.
Hello there, Herkules gave me away I guess :)
how do you determine the right wall thickness/bore for the flute?
Could you teach how to make a shinobue flute?
Very nice!
What are the dimensions of the blowing hole?
It is a rectangle with well rounded corners, roughly 8x1.1 mm
You can make it slightly different size though. Bigger hole will be louder, but also require more air to play.
Hey, I made all the things from the beginning till the blowing hole and i cant get the sound. What may be the reason?
How so you find the hollow wood tube? Im struggling to even find that
Very very voice and good job god bless you. I believe the good mastar. How mach. A tha g flute please tal men. I from USA charlotte NC
Thanks!
Dear sir.
It's possible to have a 7 hole traverse flute calculation, please?
Thank you so much
Tak!
Big thanks for support! JJCh
I tried to make a mini version from just a stick since i dont have a long enough drill to go through a long one, just air came though :(
I’m no expert, but I think a flute needs length. Not a lot of length, but enough so that the air can do its thing before it leaves the pipe. I’d take a stick that’s twice as long and just drill into both ends to hollow it out. Then just use some sandpaper or something on a rod to smooth the middle.
Oh, and cork the end with the blowing hole. I’d bet that’s what’s causing it.
maybe you said it and i just missed it, but what is the program/website you are using to check the tones?
Great vid, thank you! Where do you get the "blank" at 1:03?
Thanks mate, I made it myself on a lathe.
That's the tool I need to sace for, definitely
Want to know where to get a hand drill to drill the core as scene in the last video.
What if I don't have a corkscrew? Can I use a different method for that part?