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TeleTunes Double Flutes – Doppelflöten aus Finnland

Für die deutsche Version hier klicken.

I’ve made a video showing my three double flutes made by Mauri in Finland – all of them 3D printed, two are telescopic and one’s not, but still a very compact instrument.

Here are the subtitles:

Hello!

Today I would like to show you my 3D printed TeleTunes double flutes made by Mauri in Finland.

The first one is this black beauty.

You can see it has two labiums here and two blow holes here and a cap down here – says „TeleTunes“.

And when I remove that and open it, I have a double flute.

It is in c minor.

[Playing a scale upwards and downwards. The drone tone of c sounds with all the notes of the scale.]

You can also play just the melody side.

[Playing a scale upwards and downwards.]

It doesn’t overblow, so you don’t get a full octave, but that doesn’t really matter.

[Playing „Double dance“, a piece I wrote for this instrument.]

Right.

The next one is this here.

It has two labiums here, and only one hole to blow into, and it has two caps on each side.

Yes, I could use it just like this if I wanted to.

[Playing a scale upwards and downwards.]

D major.

But of course it’s a double flute.

So, here we go.

[Playing „Alle Vögel sind schon da“, a traditional song about all the birds being back in spring time. You can hear the drone tone of d sounding with all the melody notes.]

And the last one I have is this.

It is, erm, not a telescopic flute and you would need really large bags in your trousers to fit it in there, but it’s still quite compact.

It’s in C major.

[Playing a scale upwards and downwards. Different intervals can be heard.]

[Playing „Der Kuckuck und der Esel“, a traditional song about the cuckoo and the donkey and how they’re arguing about who’s the better singer.]

Right. So, these are my three TeleTunes double flutes.

Let’s see if I can… ah, I’m sure I can hold them all together somehow.

Here we go!

Now, as always, thanks for watching and, yeah,

leave a comment if you would like to or contact me on any other channel.

And watch this space! There will be more videos soon.

Bye-bye!


Ich habe ein Video gemacht, in dem ich meine drei Doppelflöten von Mauri aus Finnland zeige. Wie immer spreche ich Englisch im Video und stelle hier die deutsche Übersetzung dessen bereit, was ich erzähle.

Alle Doppelflöten sind mittels 3D Druck hergestellt; zwei sind Teleskopflöten und eine hat ein anderes Format und ist ebenfalls ziemlich kompakt.

Hier nun die Übersetzung der Untertitel aus dem Video:

Hallo!

Heute möchte ich Euch meine 3D Druck TeleTunes Doppelflöten zeigen, hergestellt von Mauri in Finnland.

Die erste ist diese schwarze Schönheit.

Ihr könnt die beiden Labien hier sehen und zwei Anblaslöcher und hier unten ein Deckel, auf dem TeleTunes steht.

Wenn ich den Deckel wegnehme und die Flöte öffne, habe ich eine Doppelflöte. Sie steht in c-Moll.

[Ich spiele eine Tonleiter hinauf und hinunter. Der Dauerton c klingt mit allen Tönen der Skala.]

Es ist möglich, auch ohne den Dauterton zu spielen, nur die Melodie-Pfeife.

[Ich spiele eine Tonleiter hinauf und hinunter.]

Die Flöte überbläst nicht; wir bekommen also keine volle Oktave, aber das macht überhaupt nichts.

[Ich spiele „Double dance“, ein Stück, das ich für dieses Instrument geschrieben habe.]

Nun. Die nächste Flöte ist diese hier. Sie hat hier zwei Labien, und nur ein Einblasloch, und Deckel auf jeder Seite.

Ich könnte sie einfach so benutzen.

[Ich spiele eine Tonleiter hinauf und hinunter.]

D-Dur.

Aber natürlich ist es auch eine Doppelflöte. Also, los geht’s.

[Ich spiele „Alle Vögel sind schon da“. Der Dauerton d klingt mit allen Melodietönen mit.]

Und die letzte, die ich habe, ist diese hier. Sie ist, ähm, keine Teleskopflöte und man würde wirklich große Hosentaschen benötigen, um sie hineinzustecken, aber sie ist dennoch recht kompakt. Sie steht in C-Dur.

[Ich spiele eine Tonleiter hinauf und hinunter. Verschiedene Intervalle sind zu hören.]

[Ich spiele „Der Kuckuck und der Esel“.]

So, das sind also meine drei TeleTunes Doppelflöten. Mal sehen… ja, doch, ich kann sie bestimmt alle zusammen festhalten und zeigen. Hier sind sie!

Nun, wie immer sage ich Danke fürs Zuschauen und ja, hinterlasst einen Kommentar, wenn Ihr mögt oder kontaktiert mich auf einem anderen Kanal.

Und schaut wieder vorbei! Es wird bald neue Videos geben.

Bye-bye!

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Subtitles to the telescopic flutes introduction video

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!

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