New Harmonic Overtones Walking Stick Flutes
Posted: Wed Jan 01, 2014 4:21 am
I have been making a few harmonic overtones flutes, to be used also as walking sticks.
These flutes are really whistles (using a block and windway), but one blows into the side of the head, opposite the window. They also have a single finger hole near the foot end, by which one can play another series of overtones a semi tone step up from the base note series. The scale possibilities took me by surprise, as it comes quite natural to play in a mode similar to Middle Eastern Hijaz (Phrygian Dominant) with its distinctive 1-3-1 semi tones triad of scale notes. So not only can I play two different series of harmonic overtones, but by using both can play in a third very evocative Eastern mode. One pulls the foot out to convert the flute from playing as a normal overtones flute to one with these additional modes.
You can hear an improvisation on a low G stick here: https://app.box.com/s/eu2l0mbdntzzz00gffxr
and on a low Ab stick here: https://app.box.com/s/5ibosgyqad4hlys8s1fh
Read more on my web page here: http://music.bracker.co/Whistles/Harmon ... nes_Flutes
Walking stick overtones flute:
Head with walnut hand knob:
Foot with additional finger hole and rubber ferrule:
These flutes are really whistles (using a block and windway), but one blows into the side of the head, opposite the window. They also have a single finger hole near the foot end, by which one can play another series of overtones a semi tone step up from the base note series. The scale possibilities took me by surprise, as it comes quite natural to play in a mode similar to Middle Eastern Hijaz (Phrygian Dominant) with its distinctive 1-3-1 semi tones triad of scale notes. So not only can I play two different series of harmonic overtones, but by using both can play in a third very evocative Eastern mode. One pulls the foot out to convert the flute from playing as a normal overtones flute to one with these additional modes.
You can hear an improvisation on a low G stick here: https://app.box.com/s/eu2l0mbdntzzz00gffxr
and on a low Ab stick here: https://app.box.com/s/5ibosgyqad4hlys8s1fh
Read more on my web page here: http://music.bracker.co/Whistles/Harmon ... nes_Flutes
Walking stick overtones flute:
Head with walnut hand knob:
Foot with additional finger hole and rubber ferrule: