Hey there everybody.
Thanks for the good words.
I have an answer for citrusfreak12:
The instrument that I'm playing at the end of the short video is one of my own. I call it the Flubbaphone. Like my Vestigial Organ, it uses a membrane for a reed. Membrane reeds are not so common as musical instruments, although every big truck has at least one (truck-horns are membrane-horns).
I have coined a term for this family of wind instruments based on two ethnomusicological terms that are generally considered to be mutually exclusive (i.e. membranophones and aerophones, or drums and winds). I call them membraerophones.
The Flubbaphone has other uncommon aspects: It is a finger-hole instrument with a tuning slide that can alter the tuning of any fingering while playing, and it has a bell that can be used to likewise modulate and articulate any pitch.
While I also build alot of double reeds and metalophones, membreaerophones are my favorite family.
Hey there everybody.
Thanks for the good words.
I have an answer for citrusfreak12:
The instrument that I'm playing at the end of the short video is one of my own. I call it the Flubbaphone. Like my Vestigial Organ, it uses a membrane for a reed. Membrane reeds are not so common as musical instruments, although every big truck has at least one (truck-horns are membrane-horns).
I have coined a term for this family of wind instruments based on two ethnomusicological terms that are generally considered to be mutually exclusive (i.e. membranophones and aerophones, or drums and winds). I call them membraerophones.
The Flubbaphone has other uncommon aspects: It is a finger-hole instrument with a tuning slide that can alter the tuning of any fingering while playing, and it has a bell that can be used to likewise modulate and articulate any pitch.
While I also build alot of double reeds and metalophones, membreaerophones are my favorite family.
There you have it!