Workshop in overtone flute and boneflute making.
Make your own overtone flute (willow flute) and boneflute.
The workshop will be for days the 3. and the 4 of June 2023 from 10 am to 4 pm both days.
Price DKK 900. for both days and DKK 500. for a one day.
Number of participants: min. 6 and max. 12 participants.
It will take place in the village of Hjortshøj, just outside Aarhus in Denmark. More information will come later depending on weather conditions and number of registrants.
1. Day
The first day we will concentrate on making overtone flutes/willow flutes
and we will make them in willow branches and elder wood.
Elderwood flutes will be able to last much longer than willow flutes.
It is a good idea to find some long and straight shelf branches well in advance,
but it is also possible to buy the shelf branches from me.
An overtone flute is a flute that plays on the overtone range. The flute is long and thin and in Norway it is known as the long self-flute or simply a self-flute. It is made from long willow branches (willow), where the wood has been removed from the bark, so that the flute consists of a long bark tube. These bark pipes only have the disadvantage that they dry out easily and thus the whistle becomes useless. On the other hand, it is easy and quick to make an arrow flute. In Denmark, it is obvious to make the overtone flute from a long elder branch, as it has a thick and natural pith in the middle and is therefore easy to make into a long wooden pipe. We have a flute that can last a very long time.
2. Day
The second day we will start making flutes out of bones.
The oldest bone flutes we know are around 40,000 years old, and there are also fine finds of them from the Iron Age and the Viking Age. So here you really have the opportunity to immerse yourself in both a craft and an object that has long, deep roots in our cultural history.
Teacher Aksel Striim is a musician, composer and instrument maker. Aksel is a well-known face within the historical music industry, among other things as a member of the group Krauka, and has extensive knowledge in the use and manufacture of historical instruments.
