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Musica popolare / Music for all

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monviolon, to woodworking
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n°27.
Maybe it's getting a bit crazy 🤔
The pipe inside makes a V-shaped round trip. You modulate the note by moving your thumb in front of the pipe outlet.
Bird cherry (Prunus padus), stained with walnut stain then polished with a bone. Shellac varnish.

The whistle, seen from the belly of the sculpted animal.
The whistle, seen from the back of the animal.
Close-up of the animal's head. It looks a bit like a smiling elephant seal biting its lower lip.

monviolon, to woodworking
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I recently thought of buying online a Japanese saw to replace my bad back saw. This afternoon, in a second-hand clothes and other stuff shop, amongst the rusty screwdrivers, I came across a Dozuki saw (Z-Saw brand).
...
New.
For €2.
🤷 ⭐

The same saw out of its packaging.

monviolon, to random
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I'd like to try my hand at making various instruments in the flute and whistle family before moving on to small-scale hand production (?)
So, after whistles and recorders, here's the prototype of an (probably 8 holes, in G but I don't have any plan so I'll experiment).
Internal air canal. I'm happy with the sound.
Branch aspect for this one. It's apple wood, it smells like cake.
Speaking of that (ocarina, not cake), @thomas recently released a video about it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4BvMOFKgVU

A work surface seen from above: small tools, glue and sawdust.
A small disc of wood, cut from the same branch as the rest, is hollowed out to become a lid.
The branch is reassembled and glued.

monviolon, to woodworking
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The end button of my children's 1/32 brake yesterday. Wasn't ebony. The hardwood I have at home is laburnum, from my parents' garden in France.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laburnum_anagyroides
I used it to make a new small end button. Cut with a saw and a scalpel, without a wood lathe, it couldn't be perfect, but I still think it's nicer than the original. Laburnum wood is hard and dark with beautiful gold patterns.

Draft of a button cut at the end of a wooden cleat.
The shiny new en button in dark wood with gold stripes.
A tiny violin held in one hand, fitted with the new end button.

monviolon, to random
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My October Peertube video is online!
https://exode.me/w/hvQyoBX1jAu8bGy8Vhd8EQ
The same "laridé" as in September, but played on the mandolin and in E minor.
In the middle, there's a if you want to learn it by ear (not necessarily on the mandolin).

You can support this repertoire under here: https://en.liberapay.com/MonViolon
Next video in November!

bleuje, to random French
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collaboration with jn3008

cubes camouflage: some cubes appear and roll, revealing themselves briefly only during their movement because they match a background of dots

monviolon,
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@bleuje AaaaAAAa… 👀 What did you put in my coffee? (fascinating)

monviolon, to diy
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, step 1/9.

  • In the forest, choose a branch that has a nice shape but is not too twisted. Here from grey alder (Alnus incana).
  • Cut it in half using a coping saw.
  • Use a gouge to hollow out each half so that the branch, when reassembled, forms a pipe (inside diameter < 12mm for the moment).
  • Leave to dry for a few months.

Two branch halves hollowed out. A hand holds a gouge at its side.

monviolon,
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, step 2/9.
A few months later, the branch shrank. The internal diameter is now close to 10 mm. Try digging more precisely so that the diameter is 12 mm everywhere. Use an 11 mm ball to check: it should pass perfectly through the pipe when assembled, like in a blowpipe.

The split branch is split into two halves. Inside one of them is a marble.
A ball and some sandpaper are in the groove cut in the half of the branch.
The end of the groove cut into the branch.

monviolon,
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, step 3/9.
🌬️ Make the pipe durably airtight: replace the knots, which were in danger of splitting one day, with small pieces of wood that fit precisely.
🧩 Then glue the two halves together.
⏰ Wait at least 24 hours.

External view of a branch knot replaced by a wooden cylinder.
Branch clamped by 7 plumbing clamping rings.
Detail of the branch and its rings: the glued cut line is visible, with glue running over it.

monviolon,
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, step 4/9.
Once dry, remove the excess glue and impregnate the bark with shellac. We can now start thinking about where the holes should be (although we can't be too precise at the moment).

Branch…
Branch holded in a hand.
A photo of the branch and, below, the same photo with the flute project drawn on it (the holes, etc.).

monviolon,
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, step 5/9.
Carving the fipple block from juniper (ideal for this piece because this wood is fine and doesn't rot easily).
Opening the window of the flute.
Alder is a light, fibrous and brittle wood. Despite my precautions, and as I feared, the lip chipped.
And so...
Cutting a slice of dense wood, here Myrobalan plumm (Prunus cerasifera) still from our field. Fitting.
Gluing.
Waiting.
Sanding.
Testing, at last.
Phew! 🎵 the sound is good.

A cutter blade cuts a slice of wood.
The slice of wood, fitted to the shape of the window, is placed on the chipped lip.
The head of the flute with the lip repaired.

monviolon,
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, step 6/9.
Now there's an annoying problem: when I blow harder, I don't have the expected octave.
Octave 1: C3, octave 2: B3.
By reducing the diameter of the end of the tube (picturre 3), the high note does not change, but the low note drops by a semitone. In theory, this is normal. Hearing it in real life is like magic.
So now B2- B3. Octave.
All that remains is to reduce the length to get C3-C4…

The bottom of the flute.
The bottom of the flute with a piece of wood in it.

monviolon,
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, step 7/9.
The holes! Finally I take the proportions on a plastic recorder I have. So I try to make… 🥁 a baroque fingered branch recorder! 🤪

A pencil is placed next to the branch flute on which the hole locations have been drawn.
Photo of the bottom of the flute.
Photo of the bottom of the flute with the first holes craved with a file.

monviolon,
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, step 8/9.
The branch flute is finished! It has a baroque fingering with the forks. It may take 1 hour per hole, but in the end it's playable and chromatic from C3 to G4. For a first experience, I'm surprised!
The sound is clean but softer than a plastic flute.
Its smell is a mixture of shellac, wood, toast and beeswax.
You'd eat it.
I'll be writing a page about how it's made on monviolon.org one of these days.

A recorder carved from a branch of light wood sits on top of a recorder method, open to the page where the fingerings are diagrammed for each note. Part of the bark has been preserved.
Detail of the bottom of the flute. The wood is polished and the shape is irregular, with three branch separations preserved.

monviolon,
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@thomas
Thanks! I had fun doing it. 🙂
@dusepo

monviolon,
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@thomas
I'm doing it out of curiosity but I'm thinking about making some to sell one day. I'd like to take the time to improve my technique first.
@dusepo

monviolon,
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@thomas
Oh, right, it's motivating to know that!
@dusepo

FediFollows, to random

picks of the day:

➡️ @Phil - Melodeon & smallpipe player, performs with inclusive morris dancers in England

➡️ @MalcolmMacWatt - Scottish singer-songwriter performing Americana, folk, acoustic, roots music

➡️ @jvw - Singer-songwriter creating ballads, vignettes & multipart circle songs

➡️ @monviolon - Libre sheet music & recordings, mainly folk and traditional (in English & Italian)

➡️ @helenbellmusic - Singer-songwriter mixing prog, folk & pop

➡️ @merle - French folk electronica

monviolon,
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@FediFollows Wow! Thank you for this post, I feel like I'm going to make lots of new friends 😏 I'm already discovering nice accounts thanks to you!

monviolon,
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@CharlieMcHenry Hi, there. Writing messages with useful or entertaining content (trying to) is a generous, time-consuming and voluntary activity 😉
That said, if you want more posts, subscribe to more accounts (?)
For my part, I also write in French about folk music:
@monviolon
I upload free videos here:
@monviolon
and I post about my life in the Estonian countryside (in French but it's mostly photos):
@naturebuisson
Each time, remember to click on "open original page" to see all the posts. 🌼

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