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Old 25th October 2001, 03:22 AM
Mark Meckes
 
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: USA - Texas, Austin
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Bamboo Panpipes by Stan Skov

The top parts of a bamboo culm are good for making pan pipes.
In the following pictures, you can see by their graduating size, how they were cut out from a section of a bamboo culm.
There are many ways to make these. This is one way.

There are also many varieties of bamboo that can be used to make these, but some varieties work better, depending on the thickness of the culm walls, and how easy it is to clean out the velum ( tissue-like substance) from the inside of the culm, and other reasons, personal to the maker.

Bamboo panpipes - set of 3 - made by Stan Skov
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Made from Phyllostachys rubromarginata, tuned to a pentatonic scale.

Bamboo panpipe - small size - made by Stan Skov
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Size 4"X4" (10cmX10cm) tuned to A major - Phyllostachys rubromarginata

Stan, it was a great experience watching you make these, and to see the process that you had refined to make them.
There are certainly a quite a number of steps involved to make these.
I'm sure that you must get a good feeling that somewhere in the world, there's probably someone, right now, playing your pan pipes...
I'll play a tune for you right now, on one of your panpipes and send it with this post!
All the best to you where ever you are!

~ Mark
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