Blue Monk on Big tubes

Another tribute to T Monk on some pipes I made a while back. The double wholetone-scale layout, as well as giving the player equal facility in all keys, and a shorter octave, allows for a more solid construction as the "black" notes support the joins of the "white" notes, or however you want to see it :) There is a twist at the end.

You can buy my own (portable) panpipe design on http://www.shapeways.com/model/156387/right_handed_wholetone_nylon_panflute.html

Also visit http://www.jazzpanflute.com to try out the whole tone system

Category:

Music

Tags:

• jazz
• panpipes
• panflute
• thelonious
• monk
• contrabass，
• 低声排箫，
• 排箫，
• 爵士音乐排箫，
• 爵士排箫
• 재즈팬파이프
• 팬파이프
• 팬플룻

[CherylMillard1962]

Sikus this big would traditionally be played by two musicians, it is called playing in "hocket", but anyway how is it tuned?

[brilliantcorners]

@CherylMillard1962 Hi Cheryl, to me they're just big tubes :) I have in the past made recordings using hocket technique, when I had my velcro set (you only hold the notes you need for each part). As for tuning, this beast is chromatic and arranged in two whole tone rows. My smaller pipes, which are on my other videos, have just one whole tone row, with the semitones in between accessible by lipwork.

[scidamenge]

This is cool but maybe you need some kind of a mouthpiece so you can get a clean sound because the openings are obviously too big or maybe you can make the openings smaller or into the shape of a cigar filter this way you get a cleaner sound. Very ingenious! Keep up the good work. Hmmm would like to hear the other song you mentioned about your deal.

[brilliantcorners]

@scidamenge The tubes are in fact pinched to make a rectangular opening with a blowing edge. A better sound can be had for less breath by narrowing the top third of each tube's length. But I treat this as aerophone percussion and it works.

[rossinhoto]

Umm, excuse me sir, I hope you don't mind me mentioning this, but it would appear you are missing some railings on the side of your stairwell.

Oh hang on, yes I see now.

You have made an enormous set of panpipes out of your bannisters. Well, bravo to you sir, bravo indeed! The industriousness of our species never fails to impress me.

I am assuming you have used those missing side panels to make a comically large xylophone?

[brilliantcorners]

@rossinhoto

Comical perhaps, but it might surprise you to learn that only two weeks after making my first contrabass panpipes I got a call to play them on the soundtrack to John Boorman's Emerald Forest!

[MrDriller36]

He looks like an auditor, hiding behind a fence.

[brilliantcorners]

@mariolalunia Why? Do you have a leak?

[GNOSISIGLO21]

wow!! is that instrument from the giant lemurs.

[GNOSISIGLO21]

wow!! great lungs, is that instrument from the giant lemurs??/

[theorganloft]

Now this guy is darn cool.  He has been in that back stairwell practicing this for some time now. I bet the Boss is wondering where he has been all this time. LOL

[CherylMillard1962]

@CherylMillard1962 Actually it would be called a "Toyo", sikus are much smaller in size. Zampona is the Spanish name. The former two are Quechua names.

[XOXOlove145XOXO]

lol is it weird that i find this awesome? lol xD

[clickclarkable]

was that a concert ?........