My first Youtube video (a cheap homemade musical instrument)

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Consul

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Well, it's not much, just me talking at the camera, no lighting, on-board sound, yadda yadda. It does feature an interesting and cheap homemade instrument, though:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMNIoaI6KXs

Upon further playing around, I think I'm wrong about the new more modal character of the instrument as I've since been able to tease out something more like a major scale.

Also, I'm thinking about re-recording the demo as I think referring to the altered scale as having a somewhat Middle Eastern sound might be construed as offensive, or at the very least, it might really show my ignorance about such musical scales. Please let me know your thoughts on that. Thank you!
 
I recorded a little "melody" which I "composed", added some compression and reverb, and posted it here:

http://drop.io/dmlandrum/asset/membranereed-ogg

It's very finicky, requiring very careful breath control and partial fingerings of the holes and so on. But it's also a $3 pennywhistle with a balloon stuck on it, so swings and roundabouts. It's a good enough result to make me wonder about designing and building a more robust and better-tuned version with electrical conduit.
 
Thanks, guys. :) I'm going to play around with other reed materials, since it's easy to do. In the end, I think my original goal of "sample and move on" is probably the right one.
 
I like the balloon idea.  To get a buzz on our marimbas, I use a hole with plastic bag stretched over it and held there with poster putty.  I'm curious now how a balloon would sound...
 
Awesome!

Now you just need the goat herd to go with it  :D

What would happen if you added a pipe to the hole where you blow in that you could
elongate by sliding, would that make it tunable?
 
No, that would just make the mouth pipe longer. However, I could slip in an even smaller piece of pipe there, and it might make breath control easier. The tuning is determined solely by the inner (longest) pipe butting up against the reed. I do remember reading somewhere that someone did make that as a sliding pipe, though, like a trombone.
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMNIoaI6KXs

That is soooooo cool.

Nice work, Darren.



 

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