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My Second Attempt at Making a Membrane Reed (DIY Tutorial Part II)

Posted by Poorness Studios on November 8, 2022 at 9:33am
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I attempted to make a membrane reed recently and it worked. However, I wanted to add more notes, so I found a tutorial online that shows where to drill the holes. This is my second attempt and I'm pretty pleased with it.

Intro - 0:00
Diagram & Overview - 0:41
Modifications - 2:34
Result - 4:31
Final thoughts - 5:28

See the first video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxGd6AurtuM

And see more of my DIY Projects here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwIixlr7C6KUbPfAgFP6Sn4D46L0i0CQD

& more videos involving flutes here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwIixlr7C6KWd_Wuec_IXUYgDUC_xvlRr

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  • Poorness Studios November 11, 2022 at 7:54pm

    Oh yes. I have read about that as well. They say you should tune wind instruments at room temp to insure they don't drift too much. This is all new to me though. Thanks for checking it out.

  • bemuzic November 11, 2022 at 6:32pm

    Another thing I learned the hard way. I spent ages one day in the freezing cold garage getting a pvc pipe instrument tuned just right. I think it was about the third attempt and I did everything very gradually to get it right. The next morning I started playing it inside and it was way off. I eventually worked out that the temperature changes the pitch quite a lot! 

  • Poorness Studios November 11, 2022 at 6:20pm

    Thanks AD and Bemuzic. I can appreciate the process to tune a wind instrument now. It's not easy. LOL.

  • bemuzic November 11, 2022 at 6:17pm

    Cool! It's a good way to drive yourself crazy getting those holes right isn't it?! The tape made me laugh. I did the same on my hosepipe sax. I carefully worked out where to put the holes....then realised I couldn't actually physically reach them all, and taped over two of them!

  • A.D.EKER November 9, 2022 at 3:28pm

    Sounds like my Bagpipe pipe , its about the same only a reed instead of a membrane,

  • Poorness Studios November 9, 2022 at 7:46am

    Thanks for watching Doug. Thanks for the awesome resources BrianQ.

  • BrianQ. November 9, 2022 at 1:35am

    Here’s a few calculator’s that I’ve used: anycalculator.com is a great pvc flute calculator cuz you can do custom calculations? http://www.anycalculator.com/pvcpipeflute.html

    Flutomat  has presets that you can use if you click on the red “ i “ & scroll down, but generally works off a java script calculator like anycalculator.com? http://iotic.com/flutomat/#

  • Doug Thorsvik November 8, 2022 at 11:29pm

    Your musical adventure videos are always fun to watch Kale! Keep them coming.

  • Poorness Studios November 8, 2022 at 7:56pm

    Thanks for checking it out t-belly.

  • t-belly johnson November 8, 2022 at 7:09pm

    It works great! Got to get me some spare plastic tubing now! 

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