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#1 2008-02-19 09:48:41
- Musgo da Pedra
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Two notes sounding together in the same flute
Someday when I was just kidding with strange fingerings, I play some in which I can heard two notes in almost the same volume... I think that the higher was a fifth of the lower... To keep this notes sounding, a even breath and a lot of concentration was necessary.
This kind of thing appears on some pieces?
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#2 2008-02-19 10:08:15
Re: Two notes sounding together in the same flute
Hi Henrique --
That's called multiphonics, and it's a very common technique in lots of new music for flute as well as shakuhachi (as well as other wind instruments). Practicing multiphonics is a good way to improve your muraiki as well as to get a more precise feeling of how to control your embouchure when jumping octaves etc.
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#3 2008-02-19 15:13:31
Re: Two notes sounding together in the same flute
Atsuya Okuda sometimes creates some really beautiful, yearning, fleeting multiphonics when he's wringing out his honkyoku. Hairs stand up.
-Darren.
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#4 2008-02-20 07:41:42
- JF Lagrost
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Re: Two notes sounding together in the same flute
Hi Henrique,
Never practiced seriously multiphonics on shakuhachi but I know that on the flute, the best way to obtain a "good" multiphonic is to open (1 or 2 holes) near the middle of the fingering.
So I tried the following fingerings :
• 5 4 3 1
• 5 4 2 1
• 5 4 1
• 5 4 2
• 5 3 2
• 5 3
...and recorded them on a 1.8 (multiph.mp3).
Here's a topic of Shakuhachi Forum speaking about multiphonics :
http://shakuhachiforum.com/viewtopic.php?id=1578
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#5 2008-02-20 11:10:37
- Bruce Hunter
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Re: Two notes sounding together in the same flute
JF,
Well Done on the multiphonics! Good to see another person working on these.
Develop infallible technique and then lay yourself at the mercy of inspiration. - Anon.
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