double flutes - my journey

[thogoul]

hello
people of the chikudo (in japaneese :the bamboo way)
i ve been reading for a while lots of articles you wrote
it gave me many good ideas, advices, tips...
for practicing my art of flute making
it took me tree years of travelling to enter deeper in this magical work.
playing many kinds of flutes in many kinds of place
and offering instruments i made to people i love.
this initiation ended by a long bicycle travelling
living on street playing untill i start to sell my instruments
(which is harder for me than to offer them...)
i am now setteled in france for a while and spend days and nights
on my flute workshop perfecting the art
and dreaming of more experiencing...

in these dreams, there is the double flute one
i ve seen, heard and played different kinds
and i am actually experiencing on it.
i am also collecting ressources and will share knowledge and experience later.
so this is a call for those interested in double flute making

for now, i just can speak about the One i love :
the pakistaneese Satara (also called pava)
a pastoral flute playing with circular breath for human charming !
here is a link where you can have some details and here the sound
www.zamanproduction.com/pagesinstruments/satara.html
(in french and english)
i tryed to find this flute in rajhastan but it wasn't on my way.
so i need to work on double flutes
to find my own inner Satara !

thank u all for sharing
thank u Mark for creating this site
which help us conecting on the bamboo way

[HippieChick]

thogoul,

I am sorry if this is at all inappropriate...

I came across your posts in a google search and your double bamboo flute is EXACTLY what I have been looking for. I did not see any contact info, and I am not sure if the flutes you make are available for purchase. Please let me know. It would be a gift for a dear friend who has been trying to find one for quite sometime.

Thank you,
HippieChick

[thogoul]

hello everybody,
i ve been quite busy in these times, and went slowlier one my flute making xperience; for first time i manage to earn little money for my work with few pieces i made in spring time.
i was still reading threads here sometimes but didn't wrote anything.
but i have knew things to share especially about clarinets and double flutes.

first let me inform you that in france happen every year what is known to be the biggest musikmakers meeting. name is 'Saint Chartier festival' (there is a website)
essentially axed on traditionnal music and dance; musicmakers come mostly from europe specialized in winds (flutes clarinets bagpipes...) accordeon and old european instruments.
very few of them use bamboo for wind instruments but many very interesting people to meet (also in the street come many non-professional musik makers working more with bamboo) ,amazing instruments to discover, crazy music playing and dancing.
[...]
and there i finally found Sattara (the rajhastan double flute)
it's second time i can see it in france some people import very local 'world instruments' to sell it in these festivals (it's kind-of-a-business i don't like so much); but their price is-for me- too expensive (was something like 180 euro for bad quality sattara and 250 for a good one.)
there was also a guy who worked few years on a plastic PVC model of sattara
the quality is excellent so i exchanged with him one of his pairs.
it's supposely makable in bamboo from what i talk with him.
for know, i'm just playing on it (so magic but not so easy for circularbreathing)
then i'll start experiencing on it (but my flutemaking works will wait this winter to go on).
so i'm thinking in whriting a special thread about it in the "double flutes" one i opened before.

hippychic,
i'm not here to sell instruments, i'm interested in the do-it-yourself-and-share-it-to-all way so ask me evrything you want to know on theory or making,
and if you feel rather 'chic' than 'hippy', i told you that some people import it.
if you are interested in double flutes in general, there is plenty of it everywhere; i can explain more.

greetings to all

thogoul