By the way, you are supposed to play bansuri with a sort of "piper's grip", closing the holes with the fingers rather than just the fingertips. Half-holing is funny that way, and one gets a lot of in-between tones and nuances -- and that's the beauty of it, according to some.
The last hole is a tuning hole and you can use that in the smaller flute ( Mid C, C# D, E, F). Also, India has two classical Music - North Indian and South Indian (Karnatic). North Indian classical Flute is called as Bansuri (Generally 6 hole) and South Indian classical flute is called as Venu ( 8 holes).
On some Irish flutes you get a couple of open holes very low down near the end, out of reach of the fingers. They are relics of that design of Irish folk flute's origin in orchestral flutes with keys on. The keys vanished on many folk flutes; the holes were kept for purposes of tuning and evening out the harmonics. Those same keyed orchestral flutes gave rise to designs of Irish folk flute keeping the functional keys as well. I notice many Celtic flute players who have extra keys as well as the basic six open holes of the simple D flute, but many players never seem to bother using the keys!
Love your expertise on the Indian bansuri! You are no doubt a great teacher. The sound you provoke from recorders and bsnsuri now! Greatness! Meanwhile you are a new sub which will help since I play NAF and NAS style flutes and learning quena and tin whistles now. Will get a bansuri soon too. Thanks Sarah dear
yes that last hole at the bottom is for tuning , however we bansuri players do play that lower note "Ma" we say in Hindustani Classical music or it would be the "Fa" ( Like Do re Mi fa) the fourth note of the scale . Please Note in bansuri the "Sa" or the "Do" is with the top three holes covered from the blowing hole. That lowest note is even played on very big Bass bansuris's . However to play this it is done by tilting you head downward and playing it with your Thigh. This would only work provided the 7th bottom most hole is on the outer side facing outward towards the audience. while playing you bend tilt and cover that hole with the Thigh. Of course the Big bansuri's reach the thigh easily while seated and playing not standing. One would have to bend too much if standing it's not possible. :P
I'm a suling player, it has holes positioned for its scales. It overblows nicely. One of the holes is longer, so you can sharpen it for a different scale by partially covering it.
Love the Bansuri - it has such a warm and sweet sound and one of my all time favourite Musician is the Indian Bansuri player Hariprasad Chaurasia - his Ragas are sublime.
Very interesting today! What got interested was reading that you were going to demo a bansuri. I have a low quality bansuri. The best thing I’ve done with it is to play the melody for “The Girl From Ipanema” I don’t know if you already have but I’d love to see you demo a Shachahachi. I have one that I got from Ebay over 20 years ago. Although it doesn’t have a club end, it is sturdy enough to use as a club and hurt someone! It has a great sound. Obviously made of bamboo. Made by a younger Chinese man, probably Chinese American. The embochur is a bevel on the blow end and took me a while. It’s probably my most precious flute! Thanks Sarah!
My oldest flute is a bamboo ‘dizi’ that my sister bought me 40 years ago (it’s been beaten up, cracked and repaired so many times I’ve lost count); I covered the membrane hole and play it as a renaissance flute - In D. Almost identical to the bansuri. I do still find it strange when people use the old terms for instruments that I’d class as whistles - although I also remember that back in the 19th century and earlier they tended to use the terms ‘traverso’ and ‘transverse flute’ as well or instead of!
Thank You for noting how to tell the KEY, many people don't get that or even try to explain it. I love way will they sound ❤️. Yes I love bamboo flutes and Chinese whistles that look very much like these. THANK YOU so much for reviewing them!!
This is amazing!! I have zero experience with Bangla music. When I saw the thumbnail, I even thought they were Chinese Dizi (six holed bamboo flutes with an extra "membraine hole"). It will surely be interesting to hear Bamboo whistle and Recorder duets. 😊
Late to the party but many Asian flutes have extra holes at the end for the tuning. Since the holes are all of equal size, they add other holes to tune the flute. My Dizi (Chinese Bamboo Flute) has four extra holes placed at the end at different positions and my Sao Truc (Vietnamese Northern Flute) has three (and I think others have four as well).
The very first one sounded the best to me. I wonder if you were lucky. I have some slightly unusual flutes, including a Chinese dizi, which I've not really tried to play - but that one does at least seem to be quite well made and plays and may be in tune, though trying to figure out Chinese music is quite hard. After that I thought I'd try Indian bansuri flutes, so I ordered a couple from a well known online store. They look ornamental - but as instruments they are totally rubbish. I don't know how one gets reasonable quality with some of these more unusual instruments. Some of these more exotic flute/recorder like instruments seem fun to try, but getting good ones is hard - plus of course we in Europe don't really know how to play them.
Oh my, new toys! 😆 Seriously, I love this video. I love seeing how similar, but also how different, simple flutes from all over the world can be. The key designations are very similar to those for other traditional Asian flutes. I have a few Chinese dizi flutes, and, yes, the key is based on the first three holes being covered. Those extra holes on the bottom are, I believe, simply sound holes to help keep the sound balanced. I'm not fully certain, though. I've seen people tie tassels to them, so I know they aren't used when playing. I'd love to see you try Native American flutes, which are more limited in range, but have such a beautifully haunting sound. The fingering can also be tricky for some people, but I not only play with the traditional fingering, I've figured out different fingerings for different modes.
Hi im 51 and i just bought a recorder and i just got it a couple days ago and im watching all your videos. Thank You!! Im enjoying it so much I ordered a Irish whistle on eBay. Still waiting for it. Are these like the Irish Whistles? Like in the sense of sound and how to play the notes?
I wonder what the correct left thumb technique is when playing the recorder. I watched some video of Michala Petri and she uses her left thumb differently than I do. I just move it away while she bends the thumb joint and puts the thumb more perpendicular. I think this is an extremely important thing, but I haven't found any information about it on your channel yet.
You have to play bansuri from the covering three holes and going one hole up and coming back to third hole from the bottom , the first hole should be 70-80% closed to give perfect note "Ma"
Being an Indian music producer it is hard to get away with bansuri stuffs in main stream music. And if there's one thing I can tell you about bansuri that doesn't apply to recorders, is the use of vibrato. 😜 Although I consider bansuri to be a quite hard to master instrument. For an example, the way, position and angle at which you blow over the mouth piece changes the tone, pitch & dynamics significantly unlike the recorders that has less scope of variation. And this is how you master the crazy sounding ornaments in classical music. It took me months to learn to even make a perfect in tune sound on bansuri without fingering even a single hole. And it took me another couple of months to learn to make a perfect sound with all holes fingered on a bansuri. Whereas it takes minutes to learn to blow and make a sound out of a flute or recorder style blowing stuffs. And another thing I love about bansuri is ofcourse its warm, soul sound that is just unique due to its blowing technique. Anyway nice video Sarah. You're as always amazing in your skills. 😍😍
Thanks for sharing this info... i do not play these instruments, but i do play some beutifull``sheppard whistles``.I even found a BEUTIFUL low whistie!
Very interesting video. I play the tin whistle which of course has a bright and penetrating sound. I found the Labu bamboo whistles to have a delightfully warm, soft and clear sound. Also they seemed to be in perfect, or near to perfect, tune.
Hi I love your videos ,I love the recorder but playing one wasn't for me I gave up a while ago ,to concentrate on playing the chromatic harmonica which is my main instrument.your enthusiasm is contagious.i love you trying out different instruments.thsnk you.
Last hole I think can be used too - But you have to "shift" fingers in such a way you then close 4th with the left pinky instead of right index, then switch the latter to 5th hole with right middle and ring/pinky closing respectively the 6th and the 7th and last hole. Don't know if that's exact, maybe someone with direct experience of these instruments might confirm or disprove what I've written.
Nice. I'm a whistle player whos been learning irish flute so I can play flutes that dont have a fipple. I feel like that gives me more options in the sub low D range, like bansuris. Theres very few good whistles below low D, due to fipple limitations. But theres many makers who make bamboo and other flutes below low D. Also to my knowledge because you asked bansuri's are played with more of a pipers grip. I hate the normal irish flute grip, it feels weird, so I use the bansuri style grip and watched some how to hold a bansuri videos when I was first learning haha. Bansuri's can get really big and usually have big holes so the pipers style grip makes more sense. On low F's like this its not really needed.
It's so funny--as soon as you pulled the first flute out and said that it had 6 holes, I saw the 7th one and thought, "Does she see the 7th hole?" So I laughed when you finally noticed that at the end! I kept wondering on each flute you played if the 7th hole was for the right pinky!
This was very interesting! Event some of the Chinese flutes (dizi?) I've seen have a extra hole somewhere. I don't think that's fingered tho. Also, keep us updated on how longish they last usually! And why you no play Daphne or Bach partita on these?! I miss them so much these days...
Could you do a video on "real" versus "fake" baroque alto recorders? Fake = double holes on bottom, and simple high Bb (24 on right hand), "real" = single holes, half-hole high Bb (+ no pinkie on low Bb). I find real one much harder to play but it sounds much better.
@@Team_Recorder That's pretty easy to figure out, our love - I was just kiddin' B) But seriously, what happened to your eyesight? _(you don't need to answer this)_ You are still young and lovely lady! Anyway, thanks. o ye Recordere Queene, and I wish you a very pleasant day🌞
Seems like you’ve played everything but a Shakahatchi. A bansuri is not a whistle. Famous bansuri players don’t play whistles. On this day you only played one bansuri, the transverse one.
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I love bansuri! I even have a couple and love trying them. I have to really dive in and learn more. I also loved this video Sarah, bravo!
By the way, you are supposed to play bansuri with a sort of "piper's grip", closing the holes with the fingers rather than just the fingertips. Half-holing is funny that way, and one gets a lot of in-between tones and nuances -- and that's the beauty of it, according to some.
Microtones.
@@F0nkyNinja ...which aren't explicitly called that.
You cannot control with only cross-fingers.
The last hole is a tuning hole and you can use that in the smaller flute ( Mid C, C# D, E, F). Also, India has two classical Music - North Indian and South Indian (Karnatic). North Indian classical Flute is called as Bansuri (Generally 6 hole) and South Indian classical flute is called as Venu ( 8 holes).
On some Irish flutes you get a couple of open holes very low down near the end, out of reach of the fingers. They are relics of that design of Irish folk flute's origin in orchestral flutes with keys on. The keys vanished on many folk flutes; the holes were kept for purposes of tuning and evening out the harmonics. Those same keyed orchestral flutes gave rise to designs of Irish folk flute keeping the functional keys as well. I notice many Celtic flute players who have extra keys as well as the basic six open holes of the simple D flute, but many players never seem to bother using the keys!
Love your expertise on the Indian bansuri! You are no doubt a great teacher. The sound you provoke from recorders and bsnsuri now! Greatness! Meanwhile you are a new sub which will help since I play NAF and NAS style flutes and learning quena and tin whistles now. Will get a bansuri soon too. Thanks Sarah dear
yes that last hole at the bottom is for tuning , however we bansuri players do play that lower note "Ma" we say in Hindustani Classical music or it would be the "Fa" ( Like Do re Mi fa) the fourth note of the scale . Please Note in bansuri the "Sa" or the "Do" is with the top three holes covered from the blowing hole. That lowest note is even played on very big Bass bansuris's . However to play this it is done by tilting you head downward and playing it with your Thigh. This would only work provided the 7th bottom most hole is on the outer side facing outward towards the audience. while playing you bend tilt and cover that hole with the Thigh. Of course the Big bansuri's reach the thigh easily while seated and playing not standing. One would have to bend too much if standing it's not possible. :P
I'm a suling player, it has holes positioned for its scales. It overblows nicely. One of the holes is longer, so you can sharpen it for a different scale by partially covering it.
Love the Bansuri - it has such a warm and sweet sound and one of my all time favourite Musician is the Indian Bansuri player Hariprasad Chaurasia - his Ragas are sublime.
Ooooooohhhh bansuri !!! :DD I think they sound so beautiful and mysterious!
Very interesting today! What got interested was reading that you were going to demo a bansuri. I have a low quality bansuri. The best thing I’ve done with it is to play the melody for “The Girl From Ipanema” I don’t know if you already have but I’d love to see you demo a Shachahachi. I have one that I got from Ebay over 20 years ago. Although it doesn’t have a club end, it is sturdy enough to use as a club and hurt someone! It has a great sound. Obviously made of bamboo. Made by a younger Chinese man, probably Chinese American. The embochur is a bevel on the blow end and took me a while. It’s probably my most precious flute! Thanks Sarah!
Dear Sarah,
you are such a sympathetic person, that although being a classical pianist I enjoy watching your excellent an informative Videos.
My oldest flute is a bamboo ‘dizi’ that my sister bought me 40 years ago (it’s been beaten up, cracked and repaired so many times I’ve lost count); I covered the membrane hole and play it as a renaissance flute - In D. Almost identical to the bansuri. I do still find it strange when people use the old terms for instruments that I’d class as whistles - although I also remember that back in the 19th century and earlier they tended to use the terms ‘traverso’ and ‘transverse flute’ as well or instead of!
Try traverso fingerings in that third octave. They work on many 6-hole diatonic keyless instruments.
Thank You for noting how to tell the KEY, many people don't get that or even try to explain it. I love way will they sound ❤️. Yes I love bamboo flutes and Chinese whistles that look very much like these. THANK YOU so much for reviewing them!!
oh! With glasses again!!! So nice!
This is amazing!! I have zero experience with Bangla music. When I saw the thumbnail, I even thought they were Chinese Dizi (six holed bamboo flutes with an extra "membraine hole").
It will surely be interesting to hear Bamboo whistle and Recorder duets. 😊
Wow I was just bingeing your favourites videos and look what you brought me :).
I'm immediately interested in using these as Irish Whistles. They seem to be exactly the same.
Late to the party but many Asian flutes have extra holes at the end for the tuning. Since the holes are all of equal size, they add other holes to tune the flute. My Dizi (Chinese Bamboo Flute) has four extra holes placed at the end at different positions and my Sao Truc (Vietnamese Northern Flute) has three (and I think others have four as well).
The very first one sounded the best to me. I wonder if you were lucky. I have some slightly unusual flutes, including a Chinese dizi, which I've not really tried to play - but that one does at least seem to be quite well made and plays and may be in tune, though trying to figure out Chinese music is quite hard. After that I thought I'd try Indian bansuri flutes, so I ordered a couple from a well known online store. They look ornamental - but as instruments they are totally rubbish. I don't know how one gets reasonable quality with some of these more unusual instruments. Some of these more exotic flute/recorder like instruments seem fun to try, but getting good ones is hard - plus of course we in Europe don't really know how to play them.
Oh my, new toys! 😆
Seriously, I love this video. I love seeing how similar, but also how different, simple flutes from all over the world can be. The key designations are very similar to those for other traditional Asian flutes. I have a few Chinese dizi flutes, and, yes, the key is based on the first three holes being covered. Those extra holes on the bottom are, I believe, simply sound holes to help keep the sound balanced. I'm not fully certain, though. I've seen people tie tassels to them, so I know they aren't used when playing.
I'd love to see you try Native American flutes, which are more limited in range, but have such a beautifully haunting sound. The fingering can also be tricky for some people, but I not only play with the traditional fingering, I've figured out different fingerings for different modes.
Hi im 51 and i just bought a recorder and i just got it a couple days ago and im watching all your videos. Thank You!! Im enjoying it so much I ordered a Irish whistle on eBay. Still waiting for it. Are these like the Irish Whistles? Like in the sense of sound and how to play the notes?
I think that extra hole is possibly for tassels, decorating adornments. Maybe?
I wonder what the correct left thumb technique is when playing the recorder. I watched some video of Michala Petri and she uses her left thumb differently than I do. I just move it away while she bends the thumb joint and puts the thumb more perpendicular. I think this is an extremely important thing, but I haven't found any information about it on your channel yet.
You have to play bansuri from the covering three holes and going one hole up and coming back to third hole from the bottom , the first hole should be 70-80% closed to give perfect note "Ma"
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Being an Indian music producer it is hard to get away with bansuri stuffs in main stream music. And if there's one thing I can tell you about bansuri that doesn't apply to recorders, is the use of vibrato. 😜 Although I consider bansuri to be a quite hard to master instrument. For an example, the way, position and angle at which you blow over the mouth piece changes the tone, pitch & dynamics significantly unlike the recorders that has less scope of variation. And this is how you master the crazy sounding ornaments in classical music. It took me months to learn to even make a perfect in tune sound on bansuri without fingering even a single hole. And it took me another couple of months to learn to make a perfect sound with all holes fingered on a bansuri. Whereas it takes minutes to learn to blow and make a sound out of a flute or recorder style blowing stuffs. And another thing I love about bansuri is ofcourse its warm, soul sound that is just unique due to its blowing technique.
Anyway nice video Sarah. You're as always amazing in your skills. 😍😍
Thanks for sharing this info... i do not play these instruments, but i do play some beutifull``sheppard whistles``.I even found a BEUTIFUL low whistie!
Very interesting video. I play the tin whistle which of course has a bright and penetrating sound. I found the Labu bamboo whistles to have a delightfully warm, soft and clear sound. Also they seemed to be in perfect, or near to perfect, tune.
Hi I love your videos ,I love the recorder but playing one wasn't for me I gave up a while ago ,to concentrate on playing the chromatic harmonica which is my main instrument.your enthusiasm is contagious.i love you trying out different instruments.thsnk you.
Last hole I think can be used too - But you have to "shift" fingers in such a way you then close 4th with the left pinky instead of right index, then switch the latter to 5th hole with right middle and ring/pinky closing respectively the 6th and the 7th and last hole.
Don't know if that's exact, maybe someone with direct experience of these instruments might confirm or disprove what I've written.
I didn't think I would see you try a bansuri! Congrats and the other ones sound great 👍
Nice. I'm a whistle player whos been learning irish flute so I can play flutes that dont have a fipple. I feel like that gives me more options in the sub low D range, like bansuris. Theres very few good whistles below low D, due to fipple limitations. But theres many makers who make bamboo and other flutes below low D.
Also to my knowledge because you asked bansuri's are played with more of a pipers grip. I hate the normal irish flute grip, it feels weird, so I use the bansuri style grip and watched some how to hold a bansuri videos when I was first learning haha. Bansuri's can get really big and usually have big holes so the pipers style grip makes more sense. On low F's like this its not really needed.
It's so funny--as soon as you pulled the first flute out and said that it had 6 holes, I saw the 7th one and thought, "Does she see the 7th hole?" So I laughed when you finally noticed that at the end! I kept wondering on each flute you played if the 7th hole was for the right pinky!
I love bamboo flutes
I've never heard about these flutes.....by the way you have wonderful glasses!🙂 Thanks for this video, it was interesting!
I want a bansuri! That one sounds good
This was very interesting! Event some of the Chinese flutes (dizi?) I've seen have a extra hole somewhere. I don't think that's fingered tho. Also, keep us updated on how longish they last usually! And why you no play Daphne or Bach partita on these?! I miss them so much these days...
Excuse my ignorance, but, if there is no thumb hole, how are higher notes achieved? Thanks in advance.
@@famweiland8989 Oh, I see! thank you!
Maestra saludos!!! ¿cuánto cuesta la flauta de metal, la Wistle celta en Do y en Re???? ¿me podría decir?.
Ostad Labu Miah 🇧🇩 is hands down best bamboo flutes maker in the world 🌎
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Time to try the shinobue. If you enter the world of Japanese flutes you will never be bored. Not to mention the shakuhachi.
Oh my some day you might try Japanese bamboo flute as well!
U should try an irsh flute
Sarah’s recorder and jon instrument: Yeah New friends 🤝
team recorder!! x D
Try persian ney
Could you do a video on "real" versus "fake" baroque alto recorders? Fake = double holes on bottom, and simple high Bb (24 on right hand), "real" = single holes, half-hole high Bb (+ no pinkie on low Bb).
I find real one much harder to play but it sounds much better.
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Somehow I just noticed the bassoon in the background…
i can almost hear titanic from that last flute xD
Lol I see CutiePie's pic on their website!
That median note (the G fingering on a whistle) is normally considered the keynote on either bansuri flutes or Chinese dizi flutes.
When did you think to say us that you play the bassoon???!!!😏🙃
It's nice to see you play a sideways instrument here, because you can sometimes be kind of shady about flutes and flutists 🤨
when?
Sarah, why are your lovely eyes so tiny, out of a sudden? 😄
I have minus eleven prescription in my glasses, so that makes my eyes ‘tiny’!
@@Team_Recorder That's pretty easy to figure out, our love - I was just kiddin' B)
But seriously, what happened to your eyesight? _(you don't need to answer this)_ You are still young and lovely lady! Anyway, thanks. o ye Recordere Queene, and I wish you a very pleasant day🌞
@@Team_Recorder nearsightedness improves with age
@@sarahspector5294 Looking forward to that! mine is still worsening alas..
Awww. Sorry.
Bansuri pronounced ' bunser ree' NOT "bun sooree"
Seems like you’ve played everything but a Shakahatchi. A bansuri is not a whistle. Famous bansuri players don’t play whistles. On this day you only played one bansuri, the transverse one.
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OMG, a bad contact lens day for you. (Or is this your twin sister? LOL)