https://www.labellenote.fr/en/categories/instruments-a-vent/ Recent content in Instruments a vent on La Belle Note Hugo -- gohugo.io en Mon, 18 Jun 2018 23:02:00 +0100 https://www.labellenote.fr/en/lutherie/instruments_a_vent/la_technique/bagueenos/ Mon, 18 Jun 2018 23:02:00 +0100 https://www.labellenote.fr/en/lutherie/instruments_a_vent/la_technique/bagueenos/ Making a bone ring Bone is an economical and sustainable alternative to ivory, which there is no question of using any longer nowadays. We can make mounts for musical instruments, but also very beautiful jewels. The bone I use is beef bone that my butcher friend provides me. It is shin bone, where it is the thickest. The preparation consists essentially of splitting the bone in half with a hacksaw and boiling it for a long time, at least 2 hours. https://www.labellenote.fr/en/lutherie/instruments_a_vent/la_technique/incrustationsdetain/ Thu, 14 Jun 2018 07:37:00 +0100 https://www.labellenote.fr/en/lutherie/instruments_a_vent/la_technique/incrustationsdetain/ Pewter inlays This article explains how to make metal inlays on turned wood, like it can be seen on traditional musical instruments, like the great bagpipes from the center of France or the Breton binious and bombardes. This method can of course be applied to any turned or carved wood project . Carvings × - 1 - | The first step is to carve grooves on the wood at a depth of at least 1mm. https://www.labellenote.fr/en/lutherie/instruments_a_vent/bombardeetamee/ Tue, 12 Jun 2018 23:21:00 +0100 https://www.labellenote.fr/en/lutherie/instruments_a_vent/bombardeetamee/ Bombarde B flat with a key, inlaid with tin Breton Bombarde made in 2018, May . My personal design : Mozambique ebony, tin, bone, nickel silver key. Further down in this article, you will find details on the making of and links to series of technical articles detailing the tools and techniques specific to the manufacture of wind instruments. I hope that this information will help you to realize your own projects, do not hesitate to send me photos of your achievements, I will publish them here if you wish. https://www.labellenote.fr/en/lutherie/instruments_a_vent/la_technique/fabriquerunecle/ Mon, 11 Jun 2018 12:50:00 +0100 https://www.labellenote.fr/en/lutherie/instruments_a_vent/la_technique/fabriquerunecle/ Making a wind instrument key Here is an article explaining how to make a wind instrument key. In this example, it is a “normally open” key, of the same type that can be found on clarinets or oboes. Here, it is a Breton bombard key. The necessary tooling is principally : a metal lathe, a small vise, all kinds of files, a drill press and a torch for silver brazing. https://www.labellenote.fr/en/lutherie/instruments_a_vent/la_technique/per%C3%A7ageslongs/ Tue, 20 Feb 2018 23:08:00 +0100 https://www.labellenote.fr/en/lutherie/instruments_a_vent/la_technique/per%C3%A7ageslongs/ Long holes boring The making of woodwind instruments implies to be able to bore, from one end to the other, a piece of wood, usually very hard, of small diameter and of great length. The bore is actually a first roughing step, which will be followed by a finishing step using a tool called a reamer. (See this other article about tapered reamers. ) The bore may be simply cylindrical or, in the case of a conical bore, roughed out by step drilling. https://www.labellenote.fr/en/lutherie/instruments_a_vent/la_technique/alesoirsconiques/ Tue, 13 Feb 2018 08:03:00 +0100 https://www.labellenote.fr/en/lutherie/instruments_a_vent/la_technique/alesoirsconiques/ Tapered reamers In the field of woodwind instrument making, one thing is particularly challenging for many amateur luthiers, I want to talk about the bore. The bore is the inner part of the instrument, it will determine the acoustic characteristics of the instrument. Boring the instrument therefore represents a difficult challenge for the amateur and this requires a certain amount of know-how and tooling. In wind instruments, we can distinguish two big families: https://www.labellenote.fr/en/lutherie/instruments_a_vent/flutebretonne/ Tue, 30 Jan 2018 19:41:00 +0100 https://www.labellenote.fr/en/lutherie/instruments_a_vent/flutebretonne/ Breton flute. Here is a whistle, or rather a diatonic recorder of a style deliberately more Breton than Irish. It is intended for the repertoire of the bombard and differs from the Irish flute by the presence of a subtonic hole, just like the key of the bombard. The flute is also quite powerful and stable in the low register, which also corresponds well to the range of the bombard. https://www.labellenote.fr/en/lutherie/instruments_a_vent/irishwhistles/ Mon, 02 Nov 2015 21:23:00 +0100 https://www.labellenote.fr/en/lutherie/instruments_a_vent/irishwhistles/ Irish Whistles This page is dedicated to the Irish wooden whistle. The tin whistle / penny whistle is probably the instrument I have the most played, since my childhood, and I must say that I have a particular passion for it. This led me to collect it a lot, at one time I bought all the models that I could find in the trade, I even spent one of my first salary to buy a handmade model manufactured in the USA by Michael Copeland. https://www.labellenote.fr/en/lutherie/instruments_a_vent/chalumeau/ Sun, 01 Dec 2013 10:41:00 +0100 https://www.labellenote.fr/en/lutherie/instruments_a_vent/chalumeau/ Chalumeau in key of D The “chalumeau” is a primitive form of the clarinet, which use is dated back to the middle age. Since the barroco period, it is more particularly related to a single reed instrument. It is only from the 17th century that Johann Denner added a bell and some keys to extend its scale and thus giving birth to the clarinet. [](http://metmuseum.org/collections/search- the-collections/502448) Chalumeau from the XIX th century, copied from an instrument from XVII th century. https://www.labellenote.fr/en/lutherie/instruments_a_vent/clarinettediatonique/ Tue, 19 Nov 2013 00:02:00 +0100 https://www.labellenote.fr/en/lutherie/instruments_a_vent/clarinettediatonique/ Diatonic Clarinet in the key of G The diatonic clarinet is an instrument that was inspired by the baroque clarinets, having a reduced number of keys. The diatonic version is relatively simplified in the sens that the covered scale is not chromatic. The range is quite reduced also, this instrument can not jump to the upper octave. This simple instrument is a prototype I have done from beech wood. My goal was to experiment and to set up a plan, it is indeed very difficult to get plans for wind instruments.