White plastic mouthpipe

[Muiuiuky]

sardinian traditional instrument "launeddas" is even better and sounds like bagpipes

[carnright]

This is what is awesome about the internet!!!

[butkatrello]

best one yet !

[scopein79]

Would it be possible to make one with no holes but slinding section instead (like a trombone)?

[Flannagoras]

@scopein79

Very easy. I find that they become pretty fun to play if you make them long enough. A one foot pipe with a one foot sleeve is too short. Make it at least as long as you can reach from your mouth with one arm. Getting materials to work well with each other to seal with low friction is tricky, but most good hardware stores sell thin-walled brass tubeing in the hobby section. You can get a pair of consecutive diameters in 3' lengths that will nest perfect if you remove the stickers

[scopein79]

@Flannagoras

Can you cover a whole octave with it? (What's the "range" of such an instrument?)

[Flannagoras]

There is no simple answer to this question, but I'll try. If you take any air-column, it will have a fundamental pitch that it will vibrate at. Generally, you can get an octave above that pitch by halving the length of the air-column. If your sliding sleeve is on the inside of your pipe, you can do this. If it is on the outside, the sleeve will stop wherever you are holding the instrument, or when it hits the head-piece, so the instrument cannot be reduced to half it's extended length. But.

[Flannagoras]

@scopein79 response part two:

But, air-columns don't just vibrate at their fundamental frequency. Cylindrical air-columns can vibrate at whole-number multiples of their frequency as well (2X, 3X, etc.). This is particularly easy with long, narrow instruments like the bugle or trombone, so you can start extended, slide up to the top raising your pitch, and then extend the horn again while increasing the pressure or adding tension to the reed to get the higher octave.

[eyeball226]

@scopein79: Yes, there's no reason it wouldn't work. The principal of the length of the pipe changing is still the same.

[jerome96114]

A really nice flute-instrument you've made there ...

[Ackbano]

You can make reeds with a straw, but I believe this is made with a plastic membrane. The sound is made when the little plastic bags he shows you rear the end are forced to vibrate. Very simple, yet cool. X)

[dailydent]

sounds awesome! i need to build one!!!!

[deniaxdeniax]

Excellent! keep building stuff!!

[and7barton]

That would sound even better with a bag on it.

[gilbohadana]

wowe this is beutifull i like it

keep on