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i used to play harmonica, piano, organ, chinese fiddle, chinese zither, chinese flutes, recorder, guitar, carillon, and pipe organ. I still touch harmonica, guitar, chinese fiddle, chinese flutes. Most of those instrument i can't carry them with me. Among those, i love carillon best, but when you play carillon, you are lonely unless you brought someone along:)
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I also play at keyboard and alto recorder. However I also collect bamboo flutes and all kinds of pipes in the hope that I will learn to make music from the weird mouth piece, i.e. a little hole to be blown like a Coke bottle. After years of gallant attempts it is clear that it will never happen. I usually wind up with a headache after blowing a lot of silent air. (This is what happens when primitive societies are deprived of Sam Ash stores but own a drill.)
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yes, that's a carillon. To qualified to be a carillon it has to have at least 23 bells, otherwise it's called chime. Carillon means bells. Carillon just sounds like a bunch of bell played together. You play on a console with your half fists and pedals with your feet. The keyboard set up is just like piano but the keys are batons. The batons are connected to the clappers of the bells, when you pushed down a baton, the string gets pulled and then when you released the claper is released and hit the bell and make sound. So there could be delays.
I was trying to attach a link where you could read more about carillon, but not successful. If you are interested do a search, wikipedia has a brief description about carillon. I will see if I could attach some carillon music in the future.
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Oliver, to play a bamboo flute, you will need to hold the flute side way. There are two holes on one end and six or seven holes that spread down to the other end. You blow on the first hole, but you need to have a film -- it's usually a membrane from the inside of bamboo. If you can't find a flute film, you could replace it with garlic membrane, the inner layer that is closer to the garlic. You will probably need to wet it with your saliva to get it stick on the flute around the second hole. If you really can't get it to work, a cellephone tape (scotch tape) will work, too, but it may not sound as good. Tell me how it works for you!
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Well, Oliver,
not really, it's probably difficult to play well, but it is pretty east to play. For bamboo flute, when you blow you blow air across the hole, like you describe -- blowing air across a coke bottle's mouth.
One flute only has two octave for one scale, e.g. c flute only play CDEFGABC, you blow harder to get higher octave. So, start with blowing gently to get the lower octave, then blow harder to get the higher octave. Once you get the scale down, you could start playing tunes.
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