tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32665091471159627512024-03-06T06:32:18.579+01:00noseflute.orgUkeHeidihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01175787452954907320noreply@blogger.comBlogger781125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3266509147115962751.post-70412792680490872152023-02-12T19:12:00.003+01:002023-02-12T19:50:39.151+01:00Rest in peace, dear Chris...Dear nosefluters, we have a very sad news to share. Mr. Chris Schuermans passed away on 3rd of February in Pretoria (RSA), after a long illness, that he faced with courage and against which he fought like a lion. Chris was a very good friend of us, at Noseflute.org, and we mourn for his loss with all our heart.
Chris Schuermans was the designer and producer of the Bocarina® nose flute, UkeHeidihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01175787452954907320noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3266509147115962751.post-88865191569615731332021-01-27T10:43:00.001+01:002021-01-27T10:43:28.298+01:00Ergonomics & EleganceUkeHeidihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01175787452954907320noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3266509147115962751.post-57154869183672174572021-01-27T10:16:00.002+01:002021-01-27T10:25:39.264+01:00Twinette!A pair of cheap referee whistles, welded together, bored, sanded and buffed, with silicone tubes as nose inserts. Not very ergonomic, but powerful (and so elegant when plugged in the nose!)
UkeHeidihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01175787452954907320noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3266509147115962751.post-51614908431914209852021-01-17T18:09:00.003+01:002021-01-27T10:17:23.388+01:00Sambarina!Made with a Bocarina® nose hood and a Acme® Samba whistle, which belly was bored (1/2 inch). Needs a good air flow (as any whistle), but works fine!
UkeHeidihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01175787452954907320noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3266509147115962751.post-92091214399119178662021-01-01T07:57:00.004+01:002021-01-27T11:15:19.025+01:00Happy New Year ! There's no doubt 2021 will easily be better than 2020. Noseflute.org addresses you and your relatives its best wishes for the New Year, health and happiness, for sure, and also many joyful nosefluting moments !
UkeHeidihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01175787452954907320noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3266509147115962751.post-9361924991327008292020-10-31T19:34:00.003+01:002020-10-31T19:34:56.550+01:00Happy Halloween !UkeHeidihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01175787452954907320noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3266509147115962751.post-56397951330692015682018-01-01T00:01:00.000+01:002018-01-01T00:01:17.093+01:00Happy New Year 2018!All the NoseFlute.Org team wishes you a happy New Year, full of music, peace and love (let’s say a year long personal Woodstock festival)
UkeHeidihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01175787452954907320noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3266509147115962751.post-8411039908062307712017-11-09T07:27:00.001+01:002017-11-10T20:07:49.360+01:00Much more about William Carter - Part IIIIn 2012, we published all what was available to us about the nose flute inventor William Carter's life from his arrival in Lockport (NY) at the age of 5, to his death in Rochester (NY) in 1919 (here, there and there). We also made a replica of his « Nasalette » (see here, there and there).
We have nothing to retract from those pages, except one mistake: Carter's settling year in Albion (NY). UkeHeidihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01175787452954907320noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3266509147115962751.post-589962106606097872017-11-06T21:00:00.000+01:002017-11-06T21:07:53.092+01:00The Idler No.57 is available! With nose flute!
Our article, written in a pleasant collaboration with the uke master and nose flute enthusiast Will Grove-White, has just been published in the londonian prestigious dandy magazine The Idler, by Tom Hodgkinson. Our paper is a 11 pages presentation and history of the nose flute, with full pages pictures.
Obviously, I can't publish scans of the full paper. Anyway, you can order the Idler UkeHeidihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01175787452954907320noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3266509147115962751.post-43175312607268923022017-10-28T11:22:00.001+02:002017-11-10T20:08:05.728+01:00Much more about William Carter - Part IIIn 2012, we published all what was available to us about the nose flute inventor William Carter's life from his arrival in Lockport (NY) at the age of 5, to his death in Rochester (NY) in 1919 (here, there and there). We also made a replica of his « Nasalette » (see here, there and there).
We have nothing to retract from those pages, except one mistake: Carter's settling year in Albion (NY). UkeHeidihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01175787452954907320noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3266509147115962751.post-47197469933539146332017-10-21T10:31:00.000+02:002017-11-10T20:08:19.484+01:00Much more about William Carter - Part IIn 2012, we published all what was available to us about the nose flute inventor William Carter's life from his arrival in Lockport (NY) at the age of 5, to his death in Rochester (NY) in 1919 (here, there and there). We also made a replica of his « Nasalette » (see here, there and there).
We have nothing to retract from those pages, except one mistake: Carter's settling year in Albion (NY). UkeHeidihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01175787452954907320noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3266509147115962751.post-29879810352972121612017-10-15T18:13:00.000+02:002017-10-16T08:05:11.760+02:00Restoration of a vintage HumanatoneI found a vintage Humanatone in a rather good shape, but totally oxidized. Since this model is very common (it dates from the 20-30's and is the most spread), I decided to practice a « hard » restoration on it, without much qualms.
1. Analysis
The instrument was dark grey - oxidized nickel - except for the solderings, but the overal shape was good, and I just had to flatten a bit the mouth UkeHeidihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01175787452954907320noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3266509147115962751.post-11520313319306337722017-10-09T09:16:00.001+02:002017-10-09T15:27:50.839+02:00Two german videosMr. Hiroshi Tachibana dug out two great german Nasenflöte videos. In the first one, the musician plays a Schwan nose flute and a classical (flamenco) guitar.
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The second one is a duet playing the Monthy Python song Always look on the bright side of life, on a pair of heart-shaped nose flutes.
UkeHeidihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01175787452954907320noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3266509147115962751.post-34823741410262859532017-10-02T13:22:00.000+02:002017-10-02T20:51:57.213+02:00Nasi-Flauto: What? A Nose Flute before Carter?Incidentally, I found a news in Brooklyn Daily Eagle, dated of July 6, 1890, and relating the invention of a nose flute in Italy, by il Signor Filippo Atô of Bari! What ? A nose flute in 1890, one year before William Carter filed his patent, and two before its registration ??
Brooklyn Daily Eagle, July 6, 1890:
A nose flute, maybe, but maybe not "our" type of nose flute, since the "urban type"UkeHeidihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01175787452954907320noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3266509147115962751.post-48040915462314199092017-10-01T19:53:00.000+02:002017-10-02T20:12:52.912+02:00A Beautiful and rare PABRU Nasenflöte
I recently found a beautiful PABRU nos... let's start it all over : Recently, a beautiful PABRU nose flute found me! Indeed, I was contacted by the owner of this flute, who was about to throw it in the garbage, but finally felt the duty of making a search about this instrument, and was driven to this blog. Uff!
I know the existence of only one other PABRU nose flute, and it is part of the UkeHeidihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01175787452954907320noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3266509147115962751.post-27103764927361359702017-09-30T19:27:00.002+02:002017-09-30T19:28:08.159+02:00Giant leap in luxury!That's one small step for mankind, one giant leap in luxury for NoseFlute.Org: a dry seal to authenticate any of our (so numerous) paper communications!
UkeHeidihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01175787452954907320noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3266509147115962751.post-78252258008855245222017-09-23T10:06:00.000+02:002017-09-24T08:56:10.513+02:00Nose Flute #5 by Steven Parkes
Our friend Steven Parkes builds wooden nose flutes, from time to time, just for pleasure, but also for his children. We already showed his work (check this post). And here is the #5 – for his daughter Ingrid – paired with a 3D photo and a video showing the making process.
Here is an interesting stereoscopic 3D photo. In order to get the tridimensional effect, you have to
1) open the full UkeHeidihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01175787452954907320noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3266509147115962751.post-60223875425094842162017-09-22T10:37:00.000+02:002017-09-22T19:17:57.405+02:00Students (try to) reinvent the Nose Flute
Each year, I begin the design courses I give in an engineer school by asking the students to "invent the nose flute", without pronouncing its name. They come from many countries (this year: Brazil, Argentina, Algeria, Tunisia, Uzbekistan, Germany and a few from France) but they don't know nose flutes.
I expose how a whiste blows, explain that we could get a variable tonality if we'd replace UkeHeidihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01175787452954907320noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3266509147115962751.post-81802566226661697652017-09-21T17:50:00.000+02:002017-09-21T17:50:14.203+02:00Just another mint NOS Hum-A-TuneJust another mint and new old stock Hum-A-Tune (yellow, this time!). This one is so clean that even the stapples aren't rusty, and the pre-perforated hole for hanging on a display is not hollow.
UkeHeidihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01175787452954907320noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3266509147115962751.post-87567466259731074452017-09-16T19:59:00.000+02:002017-09-16T21:44:06.383+02:00Tin Humanatone Dating (Stivers Co. period)
Estimating the date of a vintage nose flute is not an easy task, and particularly when it is an tin Humanatone, because this best-seller spread its supremacy during 35 years. But what exactly are we talking about? Dates of production or dates of sales?
In this not definitive attempt to give means of estimation, we will look at the shape of the air duct cover and the pair of lateral flaps, at UkeHeidihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01175787452954907320noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3266509147115962751.post-60391451750990870842017-09-11T17:47:00.003+02:002017-09-11T17:47:32.243+02:00The New Musical Wonder
The "New Musical Wonder" is the nickname George Washington Stivers gave to the Humanatone. While this commercial name was stamped on the very early instrument, it was also used in the 1920's user manuals, and also declined as "The Wonder of the Musical World" (but strangely not in the earlier ones).
From a 1920's user manual:
So, as you can see, I have been greatly fortunate to find a UkeHeidihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01175787452954907320noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3266509147115962751.post-59598764214305769592017-08-22T12:31:00.001+02:002017-08-22T12:34:19.203+02:00Stay tuned : NFOrg will restart soon!President Trump declares that DPRK and his leader would have to face a noise tsunami that no one has ever outlived.
UkeHeidihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01175787452954907320noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3266509147115962751.post-1221046620928428932017-08-22T09:23:00.001+02:002017-08-22T09:23:53.056+02:00Stay tuned : NFOrg will restart soon!Marshal Kim Jong-Un, supreme leader of North Korea, threatens the free world with a (not so) new weapon of massive destruction.
UkeHeidihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01175787452954907320noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3266509147115962751.post-49235557268422344352017-01-01T10:51:00.000+01:002017-01-01T10:51:50.485+01:00Happy New Year!!Noseflute.org wishes you a beautiful, peaceful and noseful new year!
UkeHeidihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01175787452954907320noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3266509147115962751.post-48931579195885717902016-11-11T09:23:00.000+01:002016-11-11T09:30:23.918+01:00Leonard Cohen (1934-2016)
This morning turned very sad when I learned the passing of our beloved Leonard Cohen. Up to then, he was the *only* living member of the Nose Flute Hall of Fame. Finally, yesterday, he decided to quit his constant infringement and to comply with the NFHoF rules.
Leonard had been inducted for the last notes of Tonight Will Be Fine (Songs From A Room (1969)), clumsily played at the nose flute.
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