Review : a Hungarian wooden nose flute

I ordered a hungarian nose flute ("orrfuvola") from Béres kézmúves Mühely (Béres handicraft workshop). Attila Béres produces lots of wooden items since 1995 : kitchenware, furniture, buckskin shirts, soaps, massage accessories, wooden toys, elements of decoration, and ... musical instruments.
And among the instruments : Agogos, bird whistles, castagnets, drums, flappers, Guiro, kalimbas, maracas, nut rumblers, rakataks, shakers, sistrums, tambourines, shekere, and... nose flutes.

« I founded my family enterprise in 1995. The direction of my activity came natural to me as I had played percussion and loved working with wood. Our musical instruments can be easily used in musical education and music therapy and they are popular among professional musicians as well. We make not only basic percussion instruments but widen the scale with several egzotic pieces, too. We think it is our responsibility what relationship the generation just growing up has to nature and to traditional values. Our instruments and other handicraft products are made of natural materials as wood, fruits, seeds, reed, leather, brass, coconut and so on. During procedures we use old handicraft techniques. All our products are qualified by the Hungarian Department of Fine Arts. We hope we can greet you soon as a satisfied customer. »

So, I received a nose flute I paid 8 euros, hand-made, in wood. And I was rather dispointed, because of the low quality of fabrication.
The labium is a mess, the details are not clean, there is long slit between the body and the air duct cap, glue smears ...


Each flute is stamped with Mr. Béres logo :

Well it works, and it's a easy-player instrument. But because of a so unclean labium, the sound is very dull, without a good definition...

Here are some sound samples to compare with hi-class wooden nose flutes providing a clean sound (well separated harmonics) :

Attila Béres' nose flute :


Max Zycha's nose flute :


Heinrich Handler's nose flute :


Well, those flutes aren't worth the same price. But at equivalent one, there are the "no name Ebay nose flutes" which are a bit cleaner...

Attila Béres website : magyardob.hu

---