PVC Overtone Flute (Koncovka) in 3 minutes

[atomictraveller]

...and he shows us!!! how awesome is that! imparts knowledge!

[EdenCreekFarm]

Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee­ee-Haw!

[ronnysoeberg]

Excuse my ignorance, I am not a wind instrument guy, but how do you change pitch when playing this? Is it just like whistling? Or do you cover/open the hole in the bottom or something, like a nose flute?

[MrFair]

@ronnysoeberg Closing and opening the bottom hole does change the pitch, but this way you'd only get a few different notes, since there's only one hole. Partially covering the hole can be used for vibrato or bending the note. You actually get the different notes by varying the air pressure. This is an overtone flute, so you'll only be able to play the overtone scale of the note the flute is tuned to. Google overtones if you don't know what that means.

[ronnysoeberg]

@MrFair Oh, allright :) Makes sense. Thanks for clearing that up. I might try to make one of these, and then fail miserably playing it :D

[gamenlfe]

GHATTIA PAGAL HA TU

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[cathie7493]

What happens if the tubing I purchased is rather thick? Will it still produce a sound?

[HolyOrderr]

i'd made it :-)

[HolyOrderr]

1:22 - 1:30

[cccincocc]

I'm not a musician but I'd LOVE to hear someone who knows what they're doing use the silicone tape trick! It's unbelievable!

[cccincocc]

Accidental music with a tiny clay plate - like goes under a mini flower pot - covered it with self sealing silicone tape. (I was making a stopper for a jar) and when I accidentally thumped it, I was SHOCKED to hear it. It's just this tiny thing with HUGE, rich sound! I wish I had a vid camera but you can get the tape at Walmart for 2 bucks and you can wrap ANYthing, from a bottle cap (unbelievable!) to a large flower pot! If you use a plastic one, you can even flex the rim for tuning!!

[mdoerkse]

I don't understand how that works! It looks like you are just blowing on the wooden plug. How can you possibly get a sound from that???

[Element4LifeAKATurco]

where do i get the plug?

[aldyraldy]

where youmake the mark, is the hole in the middle of the mark or touching the end of it

[MacarenaWallenstein]

I'm going to make one of that flutes!!! I love that sound!!

[stragnum]

One hand cajon & fujara Technique

watch in

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[Slurfs]

Imagine how great it would be to make a pipe organ with overtone pipes :)

[solimanmike]

hello! do you know how i can properly make a hole for a treverse flute? im havin a rough time with it. solimannarooz@live.com

[laellagos]

I stumbled upon this video by chance and.. than you so much! :D Now I finally know what this kind of flute is called! I fell in love with this one ever since I heared and saw it played by my favourite band, Omnia. I wanted to get one myself, but it is very hard to look for an instrument when you don't know it's name. And now I can make one myself! You rock, man! ^^

[oehutouchmytralala]

Ive done exactly what you have done in this video, but I dont get a tone. I just hear myself blowing through some PVC piping...

[oehutouchmytralala]

@oehutouchmytralala I btw do feel my breath flowing through the hole, but I just won't get a sound.

[bhabooshka]

Those are some awesome tools Mr.Junkdojo. Thumbs Up!

Hey, also I've a request for you. I was thinking of making music out of soda can. I made slots on top and bottom of the can and set 4 different width rubber bands. So, it's like four strings on each side. Anyways, point being I wanted to make some mouth organ out of soda can. Like flute, harmonica. Any suggestion?

[MrJeffrow]

holy shit my pipe actually worked. to make the two rectangular holes i just traced it off the video since i didn't know how to make that part and it was a perfect match!

[joaeri29]

thanks, you helped me a lot at school because of this vidion:)

[ihategunz]

i've seen a few videos of homade pvc flutes, overtones, and fujaras and i find it kind of strange that nobody had decorated their instrument in any way, or if they have, they haven't shown it. it's pvc. paint it or something.

[cheesebowls]

@ihategunz I like it that way. It just shows how completely raw an instrument can be.

[ComradeSephiroth]

Wow, my 6-hole PVC flutes have a length-width ratio in the low 20s. I imagine that a 50:1 pipe would be extremely difficult to control the sound!

[jonjb2a]

Made something like that myself but with one piece of pvc and a wood dowel plug. Your method is easier, I"m sure. I put a lot of elbow grease into my variation, though I think I can get pretty decent sounds from it. Thanks. An inspiring video, as usual.

[HesMasterPaton]

lol when he was using the rasp i thought he was going to hit the camera

[credenza1]

I hope those weren't yer mum's best scissors!

[jghaggett]

irish people rock

[mattyMZLU]

Very good and impressive!! Matty from Slovakia

[streetmusics]

I love american flutes

[lapkooci]

Dude that is awesome, how did you get to even know about those? do you have links in Slovakia?

Thank you ever so much .Respect

[Kortoso]

Schedule 40 is the closest thing in the US, but you can't cut it with scissors.

[Anonymarine]

pronounced "Kontsovka", not that you might care, but hey, w/e

[jdchahin]

hey!! do you get an answer?? I have the same question!!!!

[ChrisMartensson]

Take a look at Paul's (Mr. Junkdojo) fujara video. Use that blowing hole design but just exclude the rubber tube. I figured that one out myself as the genious I am! *heh heh*

[ChrisMartensson]

Nice work! Simple and great sounding. :)

I was wondering if you know how to make this overtone flute transverse? I have seen many overtone flutes played like that.

Kind regards!

[jadesrainuk]

very impressive..

[6Y648417]

Great video!! Just pronunciation of "koncovka" is something like "kontsovka". C is read as TS :-)

Anyway, thanks for great video!

[xShEepxSlaYerx]

i have a question that might sound dumb but, i wanted to about the plug. Does one side of it need to flattened so the air can pass through?

[JaredThePiper]

As far as I can see not. Because you have that cutten out piece of plastic at the end, with the U shape... when you put the piece of 3cm pvc that you cutted of and "in" over it you have the air canal already..

sry for bad english

[twiggymac]

i understand what u mean, not i know how to make it=)

[howtocall]

I´ll try it !!!

[alexander987987]

nice!!

[traktorgravare]

Great! Thanks for the wonderful guide to building a koncovka. I've now built mine and will be playing around with all afternoon!

Actually it sounds better than I expected. :-)

All the Best

TG

[rafloutist]

thats pritty cool!!! can you make a piccolo type thing

[jellybeansies]

Could you make an 8-hole PVC flute? but it plays like a recorder.

[BagpipeNic]

Hello, my pupils manufacture the model of "koncovka" that you present(they are 12 and 13 years old), they really adored, we can hear a lot of harmonic notes during the dinner at school, it was great !! Thank you very much for posting such great ideas !

[RicTheGrt]

I made one as per you instructions.  It worked great. It was an aspect ratio of 54 and keyed in F. When trying to play it I started to play bugle tunes that I played as a teenager. It is like a straight bugle.

[Junkdojo]

You see I cut the slice out of the main tube up to the hole and then wrap another split bit of tube over the top. The windway is between the air plug and the split piece of tube. Its only 1-2mm high. Flattening the top of the wooden plug a little helps. Hope this explains - P

[standardbearer]

This is so cool!

[trumpetharmonica]

Hí! Nice flute and easy job!

How many centimers should the flute be?

[Junkdojo]

The length of the flute determines the fundamental or key of the instrument. As you get longer you will need to go for larger diameter tubing to maintain the 50:1 ish length:internal diameter ratio. It's easiest to make the flute over-long and then trim to the note desired. Warm the air inside the tube by blowing into it before tuning. HTH - P

[trumpetharmonica]

Hello!

So if i have inner diam.18mm I chould have the flute 900mm long?

A´m I OK in that comment?

[Junkdojo]

Yes. You are best to make it longer than you need and shorten it to tune the fundamental. The only restriction is in your ability to reach the end of the whistle with your fingers!

[RicTheGrt]

I could not reach the end of my F koncovka so I added a 90 degree elbow. And Presto! I can reach the end. I don't think that straightnes is important. A bugle or trumpet is nt straight.

[Junkdojo]

Hi Ric, You are correct, a bend will work as long as it's not terribly sharp nor changes the profile of the tube (i.e. doesn't oval it) I've made kalyukas that are decidedly snake-ish and of course we all know the coiled hose trumpet. To investigate and discover is a great thing :) Great job!

[Irishindian55]

@Junkdojo ,they are all wrong but close.... Freq= pressure + diameter, Barometric pressure delegates tone at a Know pressure. Good luck...

[bluethere]

Nice job! With a small mistake, though. Koncovka is pronounced kon-tsov-ka, not kon-kov-ka. The name is derived from the word 'koniec' - 'the end', probably because there are no other holes for fingering but the one at the end. If you asked for 'koncovka', most of the time you would end up with some cable terminator, because that's the primary meaning of that word today. ;-)

[Junkdojo]

Thank you for the correction bluethere. I have only ever seen the word written and not pronounced. that's very welcome advice. regards - Paul

[KhmaiBodian559]

watch out ur gonna poke my eye out with that thing lol

[temoniprince]

amazing

[halfpuppy]

I made this today with stuff I had lying around. I used a bigger diameter pipe and cut it a little over 2 feet long for a lower tone. I had to sand the dowel a little flat on one side to get any sound, and I shaped the hole with a dremel grinder, as I didn't have a file. It sounds great! Thanks for the tutorial. I'm going to make a small one too when I get a chance.

[Rosky12]

Lol is this what you use your work tools for? Manly!

[tcdetecon]

This is totally awesome, I know what I'm going to do this afternoon!!!!

[Forlaniz3]

can we get married? i'd love to learn all kinds of cool things from you! lol

[Digplayer]

Dude, that was so cool. I'm Canadian, but live in Czech near to Slovakia and have a fujara which I try to play, so watching you make that Koncovka was really cool. Well done!

[Junkdojo]

Hey Digplayer, thanks a million for your kind words, It's a totally different construction to a Koncovka but has the same basic sounds. I have received so many emails about my PVC Fujara that I'm about to do a build video - Subscribe to make sure you get it as soon as it is available - watch this space :)

Thanks for your comments, it's fun!!

Paul

[lozziecap]

That's fantastic - thank you for sharing this.

[vivomusica]

thanks for the good idea. Congratulations !!

[midnightmoonshine]

Wonderful instructional video. Thanks for posting this valuable information!

[boydmusic]

Nice one... thanks for sharing that!

[zachthac]

Dude I made one and its flippin awsome. Thanks =D