Chiff and Fipple Forums

It might be, whistlecollector, and thank you for the suggestion, but as I'm a stickler for detail and want the end result to look as close to the original as possible, so I'll have to solve the problem eventually. I don't know why I'm having so much trouble with making a simple mouthpiece. Because r...

Project Update: Had some success with the basic ocarina project, though I start to lose sound or volume when hitting the high notes (when all four holes are uncovered). Could use better tuning and I think I could still do better on the mouthpiece, though. In the meantime, real life--and to some degr...

Project Update: I'm backtracking and trying at this point just to make a basic wooden inline ocarina. Plainly I'm never going to get anywhere with the branched design until I can make a decent wooden fipple.

Project Update: Well I've hollowed out some white pine into a y-shape and attempted to create a working ocarina fipple. I'm testing the fipple by pressing the two pieces together. Sometimes, when I shift the two pieces just right, I can produce a weak note, an F#5m but this is incredibly sporadic. I...

Project Update: I've started hollowing out a y-shaped piece of wood for a rudimentary ocarina test. (Where has my Dremel disappeared to when I need it? Ah well, hand tools are fun.) It should answer some of the questions regarding a single-chambered design and tuning. I expect it'll be a couple of d...

Wow, thanks again.

Why thank you s1m0n. To answer your question, I believe the second ocarina in the picture is a drone, but in the video both ocarinas can play multiple notes, together or separately. (This is where I may hit problems if I try to give the illusion of a single mouthpiece feeding two chambers. Playing o...

Ah, I see what you're saying, and it makes sense in my head, however it seems to conflict with this instrument from Wood n Bone? http://www.wood-n-bone.co.nz/double_ocarina.jpg The tubes can't be all THAT fat, or the double pipe wouldn't fit in one's mouth. (He sells singles too.) Mind you I can't g...

I don't think I follow. Remember, I'm a total woodwind newb here, and my basic goal is to produce a playable y-shaped instrument at a pitch that doesn't make my ears bleed. Right now the sample sounds all right, but I'm not really sure how to tune it, whereas the tuning of an ocarina seems to be pre...

So an ocarina of the same diameter and length as an open tube will play an octave lower, is that what you're saying? (I actually did do a test on two recorders I have, stopped them up, and got no tone, but that may be a function of the type of fipple, or possibly that neither is a particularly high-...

Oh, ok, so if I cover up all the holes on a normal recorder and stop the end it doesn't make a noise either. So I guess it shouldn't be acting like an ocarina...still a little confused by it. I guess there has to be a certain width to length ratio before it stops behaving as a tube and starts acting...

Pretty woodworking on that flutarina. Tumborough, no luck moving the fipple and windway cover closer to the soundblade. Then I get no sound. It seems very determined as to where it will be. I wish I could do a proper test with a true Y-shaped connector, but they just don't make them for 1/2 inch pvc...

Brief update: I was getting terribly difficult to define results using the Y-splitter and duct tape to seal it, so I took a step back and bought a simple T-connector for PVC, with interesting results. I have also rearranged the pieces so that the branches are at right angles instead with similar res...

I've finally had time to make the new fipple and can produce two notes on an open-ended pipe. Tonight I might see what kind of results I can get with a y-shaped, single chambered ocarina design. (No harmony sound expected, but the easiest of the designs to tune and construct, and so a good place to ...

Thank you Tumborough, Yes, I think you're right that there's a basic problem in the fipple construction. At lunch today I finally got around to drilling a couple holes in the right hand pipe. No change in pitch at all. Then I decided maybe the pipes were too long for a single-chambered ocarina (like...