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The opening of the bowl is somewhat smaller due to the wide, inwardly bulging edges on the two narrow sides. 6-9 grooves are cut into the ends at equal intervals. A single string, made of gut or vegetable fibers, is pulled lengthways across the instrument through the holes and tied at the ends to wooden pegs so that several parallel strings ...
In bowl turning, the grain runs at right angles to the axis, as if a plank were mounted across the chuck. When a bowl blank rotates, the angle that the grain makes with the cutting tool continually changes between the easy cuts to two places per rotation where the tool is cutting across the grain and even upwards across it.
Maker of the FANTASIA flute and custom wooden headjoints: No: Yes: Yes Oleg: USA: Oleg Garbuzov died in 2022. His company no longer offers flutes, headjoints or flute-related products. No: No: No Olwell Flutes: USA: Father and son, Patrick and Aaron Olwell, makers of mainly Irish flutes: Yes: Yes: Yes Opperman: USA
The flutes were carved by making an initial narrow cut to the appropriate depth in the centre of each flute, then shaping the curved sides. [22] By the time of the second Heraion of Samos, perhaps around 550 BC, lathes were being used. [22] Ionic base, North Porch of the Erechtheum, Athens
Bob Stocksdale (1913 – January 6, 2003) [1] [2] was an American woodturner, known for his bowls formed from rare and exotic woods. He was raised on his family farm [ 2 ] and enjoyed working with tools.
An open end-blown flute similar to the kaval is used by the Bashkirs and the Caucasians; it is called by such terms as khobyrakh, Quray and choor or shoor. A typical khobyrakh is a 70 cm-wide, smooth, hollow pipe made of an umbel (hollow stem of a big, parasol-like umbellifer) or wood, with 3 or sometimes 6 finger-holes.
In 1888, they were commissioned by Edward Heindl, the then-Principal Flutist of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, to make him a Boehm system wood flute. [3] [4] The Haynes brothers then produced over 500 flutes with the (unrelated) JC Haynes Company in Boston. Their 507th flute was the first of the new Haynes Company, established in 1888. [5]
Traditionally made of cane or wood, it has 6 finger holes and one thumb hole, and is open on both ends or the bottom is half-closed (choked). To produce sound , the player closes the top end of the pipe with the flesh between the chin and lower lip, and blows a stream of air downward, along the axis of the pipe, over an elliptical notch cut ...