These are the subtitles from the introduction video to my collection of telescopic flutes.
Hello!
I’m sitting next to my piano, but I don’t want to show you anything that has to do with keys, today.
I have here a handbag full of flutes.
Telescopic flutes from Finland.
You might already have seen the video I made about this flute here. This telescopic flute was the first one I got from Mauri and it is about the size of a soprano recorder.
I brought one, to show you.
It is tuned in a minor scale and doesn’t have a thumb hole at the back so you basically play it like, for example, a tin whistle.
(Playing the folk song „Vem kan segla förutan vind“ – „Who can sail without the wind“)
Fits in a handbag, fits in the pocket of your trousers, and when you’re done playing, you just put it back together and that’s it.
Now this one has an amazing sister: it’s a double flute! It is tuned in a minor scale as well and it has a drone pipe with it.
Look, twice the size.
This one is really a bit stiff.
Take the cap off, flick it open, maybe adjust it a little bit. You have to make sure that both ends have the same length, so that you actually get the same tone.
The drone on its own, and the melody side on its own, and together.
(Playing an improvised song in, I don’t know, late medival style perhaps.)
You can do all kinds of meditation with it, and improvisation, and I just like the idea. It’s 3D printed, that’s different to the wooden case of the piano here, but it is a real musical instrument.
I leave it here as it is because this one still needs to get used to being flicked open and put back together again.
Now, these two are in minor scales, but Mauri also has some flutes in major scale.
And this one is just looking so neat, isn’t it. The colour is pinkish-orange-golden, all kinds of colours, and it has a different shape, it’s a hexagon.
There we have it. And it’s tuned in a major scale.
(clearing my throat)
(Playing a major scale up and down again)
(Playing a jig, „The Old Favourite“)
Isn’t this a wonderful, warm sound? I love this sound, and it is a beauty!
The only thing I had to get used to is that some of the holes are placed right on the edges of the hexagon, so you have to get used to putting your fingers on the right place and also stretching my ring finger a bit to close the hole down there, but basically everytime I’m getting a new instrument I have to get used to it in a way.
This is this one, and you just put it back together and put it back in your bag (or on the lid of the piano).
There’s more!
The last one.
Now this is one of the coolest instruments ever, because you could put it on your keychain.
It’s a bit heavy, but in theory you could even wear it as an earring, which I don’t.
It has a kind of greenish colour and you take the cap off and flick it open and adjust it a bit. There it is. A tiny keychain flute.
(playing all six notes from low to high and back)
Large enough to play „Twinkle, twinkle, little star“.
(Playing the song)
And versatile enough to also play the „Bear Dance“, for example.
(Playing the dance)
Think about it – how cool is it to have a small instrument on your keychain and you can even play dance music with it.
The size of this one is of course much less than a soprano recorder, less than a sopranino, about the size of a garklein which is a very small recorder.
But, again, as you can see here, the recorder has a hole for the thumb on the back and the telescopic flute doesn’t.
So, yeah, this is a short introduction to these really, really nice instruments made by Mauri in Finland and who knows, he might think of yet another design that I just absolutely want to have and add to my collection and the good thing is: in this handbag, there’s so much space in there!
Thank you for watching. I hope you like it. You can find the link to Mauri’s Etsy shop in the description below and I’ve also made a German translation of what was said.
If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to get in touch. Thank you for watching! Bye-bye!