RingFlute

Post by **Dale** » Fri Mar 11, 2005 6:04 am

http://www.ringflute.com

Walden · Post by **Walden** » Fri Mar 11, 2005 6:24 am

That's interesting... almost makes me wish I had 79 bucks. The clip is echoey and a bit hissy.

Mandolin Miscreant · Post by **Mandolin Miscreant** » Fri Mar 11, 2005 6:29 am

Dale,

Hmm! . . . and here's me, in a wild imagining, pondering the possibility of a built in whistler's airbag for the safety of really fast whistle players!!!

Don't suppose they've sent one to you so that you can review it?

Mando

Hiro Ringo · Post by **Hiro Ringo** » Fri Mar 11, 2005 7:03 am

Very attractive and of ergonomics!!

But the sound is...hum. :/

emmline · Post by **emmline** » Fri Mar 11, 2005 7:26 am

I want to know if it really is ergonomic. Very cool to look at, but might the fingering be a little awkward?

talasiga · Post by **talasiga** » Fri Mar 11, 2005 7:38 am

emmline wrote:I want to know if it really is ergonomic. Very cool to look at, but might the fingering be a little awkward?

Twood appear that itd be most erganomic for the ring fingas. No?

EricWingler · Post by **EricWingler** » Fri Mar 11, 2005 8:48 am

I suppose that we could expect this instrument to produce a nice round tone.

slowair · Post by **slowair** » Fri Mar 11, 2005 9:09 am

I'm not gonna try it, you try it.

Hey, let's get Mikey to try it.

Yeah, he hates everything!

Kingfisher · Post by **Kingfisher** » Fri Mar 11, 2005 10:27 am

Of course , I'm only going by the picture , but , play for more than a half hour with fingers that are as curled up as our lovely model , and you may never get them unknotted !!

Try to bring a jig up to speed with that hand postioning !!!

Have a Great Day and Fun Whistling !!

glauber · Post by **glauber** » Fri Mar 11, 2005 12:51 pm

That's an ocarina, kinda. I don't think he invented it; i have a doughnut-shaped occarina made of ceramics that's basically this same instrument, just smaller.

Ro3b · Post by **Ro3b** » Fri Mar 11, 2005 1:20 pm

Interesting that the hands have to be on the same side of the tube. You'd have to relearn all your left-hand fingerings backwards.

Wanderer · Post by **Wanderer** » Fri Mar 11, 2005 1:35 pm

glauber wrote:That's an ocarina, kinda. I don't think he invented it; i have a doughnut-shaped occarina made of ceramics that's basically this same instrument, just smaller.

I don't think it's an ocarina. An ocarina is a "vessel flute"..blowing across the mouth of a jug is like playing an ocarina. Looking at the little "venting hole" on one side leads me to believe there may be a wall inside there somewhere. That would make this a curved tube, elegantly joined so as to look like a ring, but where the bore does not go around the entire ring.

I've drawn in red how I think the bore is made in this thing..excuse the amateurishness..I'm stuck at work with MSPaint

piperdoc · Post by **piperdoc** » Fri Mar 11, 2005 1:43 pm

if you ask me, the thing is clearly dangerous. what if the sound, rather then coming out the end, keeps going around and around? you can loose control completely.

meir

glauber · Post by **glauber** » Fri Mar 11, 2005 3:06 pm

Wanderer wrote:
glauber wrote:That's an ocarina, kinda. I don't think he invented it; i have a doughnut-shaped occarina made of ceramics that's basically this same instrument, just smaller.
I don't think it's an ocarina. An ocarina is a "vessel flute"..blowing across the mouth of a jug is like playing an ocarina. Looking at the little "venting hole" on one side leads me to believe there may be a wall inside there somewhere. That would make this a curved tube, elegantly joined so as to look like a ring, but where the bore does not go around the entire ring.

I've drawn in red how I think the bore is made in this thing..excuse the amateurishness..I'm stuck at work with MSPaint

I could be wrong, but i think that little end-pipe is just decoration.

DCrom · Post by **DCrom** » Fri Mar 11, 2005 3:09 pm

Obviously most suited for playing reels

(the "round and round" ones)

More seriously - it appears to have a flutelike embouchure, not the whistle-style mouthpiece I'd expect on an ocarina. And that "vent tube" looks functional - I think it's just a simple-system flute with an oddly-shaped bore. You could probably make one that sounds OK, but I don't really see the point unless you're really worried about packing the musicians in tightly.