For this you can use the method that has been used for hundreds of years.
To do this you need a hammer, 3 or 4 walnuts , and a nice piece of cloth
Using the cloth, gently apply the oily cloth on the duduk.
You can use this cloth several times until the oil on the cloth starts to dry out.
Walnut contains natural minerals, vitamins, and oil , this will preserve your instrument for many years. you can also use almond oil, or any other neutral, non-vegetable based oil (vegetable oil will go rancid on you).
Baby, you can oil my Duduk!
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Baby, you can oil my Duduk!
With this ancient Armenian oiling technique:
And now there was no doubt that the trees were really moving - moving in and out through one another as if in a complicated country dance. ('And I suppose,' thought Lucy, 'when trees dance, it must be a very, very country dance indeed.')
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Re: Baby, you can oil my Duduk!
The oil keeps a small amount of water in the wood, and helps keep extra water out, but what do the vitamins and minerals do for a piece of wood that's been dead for maybe a hundred years?
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Damned if I know.
And now there was no doubt that the trees were really moving - moving in and out through one another as if in a complicated country dance. ('And I suppose,' thought Lucy, 'when trees dance, it must be a very, very country dance indeed.')
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Re: Baby, you can oil my Duduk!
They reanimate your instrument, turning it into a zombiphone!Tim2723 wrote:what do the vitamins and minerals do for a piece of wood that's been dead for maybe a hundred years?
Vitamin E is an antioxidant and is normally added to nut oil to keep it from turning rancid. So maybe natural vitamins have the same effect.
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Re: Baby, you can oil my Duduk!
Hi everybody
I've been using the crashed walnut's oil technique for about three or four months and it works very well.
I've used it for the duduk's body and also for the shakuhachi ( especially the mouth piece, utaguchi, and the root's area).
So far I prefer this kind of natural oil over the almond oil that you buy in shops.
Manuel
I've been using the crashed walnut's oil technique for about three or four months and it works very well.
I've used it for the duduk's body and also for the shakuhachi ( especially the mouth piece, utaguchi, and the root's area).
So far I prefer this kind of natural oil over the almond oil that you buy in shops.
Manuel
Manuel