The very last hole is one note lower than the scale in which the flute plays, so yes, all fingers down on a D flute plays C and Bb on a C flute. The shinobue is basically in a major scale starting with one finger up at the bottom. Sorry for my bad English as always, and thanks in advance. Really sorry if that was the wrong section but this seemed to me the correct one to ask about.

I've posted it on 8notes cause I couldn't find any answers and found only one lazy flute Luthiery forum! If you do know some or someone that could help me over this, please let me know about it!Īlso, I think that anyone that owns a Shinobue could answer me most of those questions. Then, does shinobue is supposed to use an extra cork together with the bamboo on the mouthpiece node or just a cork well fit inside? What's that bondo (bondo in Japanese) they are telling me about, is that the node? Then, I couldn't understand really well the drawings of tutorial, cause it's a drawing with the length of 430mm an 19mm of eternal diameter and 17mm for internal diameter and right after this another measurements with the length of 427mm and 18mm for eternal diameter and 11mm for internal diameter! Is that an extra part that i supposed to go inside the bamboo with a smaller diameter?

So, this is the first question, which of the following fingering charts should I follow? I didn't know any flute that skip so much octaves like this on the first note! One tells me that this should be A4, the other one Bb3 and the other one Bb2 and Bb3 at the same time!.

I've found some tutorials over the web:īut 3 different sites tell me that shinobue in key of C is tuned in different note! 3 different notes in the tsutsune position (all holes covered). Recently I've build a Bamboo Shakuhachi (using PVC and Bamboo tutorial over the net) and I' really happy with its sound and tuning, but now I have to use and so build Japanese traverse flute (fue/ shinobue).

Dizi higher octave fingering