So, what is this then?
Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2024 8:21 am
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That's possible, but I have so many questions. First, is the second flute really big enough to be a 10th down from the first flute? It doesn't look THAT much bigger, and I don't see how it could play down that far. Perhaps it's only a third lower, but there's a way to break octaves on the smaller flute and NOT in the larger one, so that the notes are a tenth apart? Maybe this could be accomplished by making the smaller flute have a less stable construction so it jumps octaves easier. But then, we'd expect it to be possible to play in major thirds (when the flutes are BOTH in their lower octaves), and it doesn't look from the finger chart like there's a way to do that. Maybe there's a part of the chart we're not seeing?StevieJ wrote: ↑Wed Feb 28, 2024 2:56 pm The notation at the base of fingering charts suggests that melodies can be played in parallel thirds - sixths (inverted thirds) at left and tenths (thirds + an octave) at the right. I'd love to see the other possibilities. But not enough to fork out 160 quid for the privilege.
Ah, I see. I should have looked for just "Hercule" and "Paris" together. I was focusing too much on the "Atlas - U" portion.
Don't forget this amazing creation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dE_2T8lMrbUpancelticpiper wrote: ↑Thu Feb 29, 2024 7:51 am These Native American flutes are essentially giant whistles with drones
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eD5He0d3IFk
Then there's a quite different approach where you divide the octave between the two hands.
There's plenty of iconography concerning the extinct British double-chanter bagpipe which appears to have been widely distributed from Cornwall up to Scotland.
No instruments survive and no-one knows exactly how they worked but English pipe-maker Julian Goodacre came up with a brilliantly working hypothetical "ancient Cornish double-pipe".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bl4uQYGfZ5o&t=17s
I owned one but was dissatisfied with its huge size and troublesome reeds so I cobbled together my own, using Julian's fingering system but employing two ordinary Scottish "practice chanters" which have very reliable stable plastic reeds.
I have several YouTube videos up playing various tunes on them (I receive zero money from YouTube)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4lw8-3Jf9w
Many people asked about the fingering/note layout, so I did a video demonstrating everything.
I think this layout would also work with whistles.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EEDTmIydUs