Soundatventure

..from Quena Flute making guide How to Tie / Bind your Flute Professionally Often this is the last stage of flute making... is optional but it'll definitely make your flute more authentic looking.. A good binding technique can help prevent bamboo flute from splitting. You can also use this technique to repair your cracked bamboo flute. Follow through my steps and do it slowly. You should be able to get a good and tight bind. Binding Steps: Step 1: Make a loop like this (btw this is the back of flute and its thumb hole) Step 2:  Hold the loop with your thumb Step 3: Start the winding.  Make sure each winding is tight and not overlapping each other. The yellow arrow shows the winding direction of my thread The red arrow shows the direction at which you should wind towards (towards the looped end) Step 4: Tying the ends   First, Yellow arrow..push the winding end of the thread through the loop Second, Red arrow.. pull th...

Why I started making flutes and a little history about quena flute ... Quena Flute Made in Singapore O.o Let's make Quena! Planning to get a Handy dandy notebk?   This will be a long post.. step by step  .. on making a quena flute. I will provide you with my personal secret handy-dandy tips n tricks, hopefully they will be useful for your flute making. And also I've included the making plans and dimensions for my flute. Don't worry if you do not own any heavy machines or milling machines.. I just find whatever tools I can get around me to make my PVC flute. In another words all the tools that I will be using should be easily obtainable. Yeah!

Yoz! Do you like to make a musical instrument? Of course you do! If not, you wouldn't have landed on this page. Right?  There may be a few reasons to why you want to make your own flute.. for me I find that is not easy to get a flute here in Singapore (  not talking about western flute ). Often hear people asking where can I buy a flute in Singapore?  You can find them, but they are like searching for rare items in a game.. Furthermore bamboo flute may splits when not taken care of properly. Not very durable compared to a pvc made one.. ..For more, here is  my article on plastic instruments Since I love making things out from scratch... why not build my own flute :)  White Black Quena Flute  But First let me give you a short introduction on this flute that I made. Quena is originated from Andean. It has a distinctive sound comparable to a bird-soaring in the sky. The early materials use for making this flu...

Ink on paper: The Ear Let's learn about how we hear.. Understand why? when a mechanical wave is created by a vibrating body (eg. musical instrument), is being heard as sound. Sorry for my bad drawing lol. Both are done by me but you can see I didn't put in any effort for the diagram below haha! The ear diagram This is just a simple structure of our ear (excluding the stick man of course). From my drawing you can see the three labelled parts; tympanic membrane (aka eardrum), auditory ossicles and cochela They each plays a different roles which contributes to our hearing. Sound wave reach the tympanic membrane and cause it to vibrate The vibration will be relayed through the ossicles, the ossicles are like little levers, it is said that the force of the vibrations is being amplified about 20-fold they are three the smallest bones found in our body Finally it reaches the cochlea inside Cochlea is filled with...

Soup Master Soup With Pumpkin Rice I believe most people in Singapore knows what is 老火汤 (lao huo tang aka Soup Master). Over the past one year I've seen them popping out of every corner. Lotus Root Pork Ribs Soup You can't go wrong with soup and I like to drink soup.  This is what I bought yesterday while on my way back home. Yeah.. I dont like to eat out when im alone .. but anyway they offer free soup refills if you dine in. They have a variety of soup for you to choose from a simple and light Pear & Apple Pork Ribs Soup to rich flavourful Buddha Jump Over the Wall. So what is the Special deal here? Collect Card There see this little card  ---> is all in Chinese which I don't understand why..  or maybe there is English version one? dont know.. "Whateva" .. so what this card says is, collect 10 chop marks or stamps and you'll get to have one choice of soup for free . Any one will do and of cour...

Understanding the basic component of music: It is important to study them when you want to convey your thoughts and show your appreciation toward music. Especially when you are writing a music critique these are the six elements that you would want to know. Most Music Critics don't touch on the playing techniques unless he/she is a professional player in that instrument. Or perhaps if you compose, these basic elements are essential to look at in order to create a specific genre of music. The Six Primary Elements of Music: There are various combinations out there but I will be covering on these Six. You are probably familiar with the top 3 (melody, rhythm and harmony) as they are the most common out of all the elements listed. I had come up with this F ish Analogy so that you can appreciate them better. Melody (fish bone) Melody is simply the backbone of the music. Made up by series of pitches. It is also...

Some of you might be very familiar with this quote by Adele " I make music for ears, not eyes ". If you don't know her yet you should go check her out. Mr Krabs Listens to music with his eyes Well I will be going to talk about music for eyes not ears.. o.o <-- wow your eyes sure is staring big now. Probably wondering what has music got to do with visuals?.and what is this jerk talking about? I am talking about Ernst Chladni a physicist and a musician. By the way, I guess most physicist like the vibes of music... like our famous Albert Einstein who loves his violin.. Ernst Chladni invented a technique that allows us to visualise the different resonance on a given surface under a specific given frequency. Chladni Figures The technique requires one to draw a bow, like those you use for violin, across the edge of metal plate. The sand or salt covering the plate will resonate and concentrate on the nodal lines.. different frequency wi...