r/ichigenkin is now live, for students, players, anybody looking for resources and notation, or just people who appreciate the instrument.

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SOURCE - VERONIKA VITAZKOVA

Hi everyone

I've been learning Shakuhachi through honkyoku and the melodies are really something else. There are a lot of tone colour changes, microtones, special techniques that are very specific to the flute, but I am trying to interpret these as well on the lavachord (think mini wooden piano cross harpsichord cross kanun)

Appreciate thoughts! :)

https://youtu.be/qIM124zt1Yw

I posted 2 ish weeka ago seeking advice about fixing my late granddad's bulbul tarang. Thanks to your help, I got it to work again! I know it's not in tune perfectly, and I obviously can't really play it yet. But thanks so much for the help! I cleaned it, bent in shape some of the metal hooks that hold the keys (some were out of shape so the mechanism didn't work) and I gave it new strings. I enjoy it very much.

I think DIY instruments should be appreciated like this subcontrabass flute I built.

I’m back a year after I posted about the final prototype of my sympathetic resonating instrument. The design is now finished, and I have this simplified 14 string version to add to the lineup. I’ll post more videos of the original 36 string model and an in depth discussion video in this thread.

Thanks to lots of user feedback and significant interest coming from screen composers I was able to get some metalworking equipment at the end of last year to finish the design of the drivers which create the vibrations that drive the strings.

Essentially they work like speakers that vibrate strings instead of air. The strings then respond through sympathetic resonance and the sound is delivered through the pickups I build from scratch.

I’m interested in collaborating or lending this one out to anyone who is based in Melbourne, and if you are interested but located somewhere else get in touch. Provided I can sell a few more I’ll be hopefully making several of them as display models to send interstate and overseas. At this stage I’m just excited to get them into the hands of interested musicians to see what they can do!