This blog is dedicated to the sublime instruments called nose flutes and which produce the most divine sound ever. We have chosen to discard all the native models from S. Pacific and Asia, for they need fingering to be played. We'll concentrate on "buccal cavity driven" nose flutes : the well patented and trademarked metal or plastic ones, plus, by a condemnable indulgence, some wooden craft or home-made productions.

Nov 6, 2011

Urbina & Maria : a contemporary Basque flute

Here is a spanish patent (ES1004918), filed on Mar. 7 under the title "Flauta Nasal", 1988 and registered on Oct. 10 of the same year, by Uriarte Urbina and Antonia Maria, inventors, for the account of Papelaria Informal S.A., Donostia-San Sebastián, Guipúzcoa, in the autonomous community of the Basque Country.

No specific technical innovation in this nose flute, but a neat and efficient design though, with two huge lateral walls, sized largely over what's necessary. Why ? To help a better grip maybe ? Or more probably in the design gesture, making the profile of the flute looking like an elephant head.


The Flauta Nasal is planned to be made in one piece, in cast plastics or composite material, but might be recovered by another material :

« De forma más concreta, la flauta nasal que se preconiza esta constituida mediante un cuerpo monopieza, preferentemente obtenido a base de material plástico, aunque obviamente puede estarlo en cualquier otro tipo de material apropiado, cuerpo dotado de una embocadura para insuflación de aire al interior del mismo y a través de las fosas nasales, estableciéndose en su seno una conducción arqueada que dirige el aire insuflado hacia una salida del cuerpo, debidamente distanciada de la embocadura anteriormente citada, en correspondencia con el normal distanciamiento entre nariz y boca del usuario, quedando esta salida situada sobre una aleta sensiblemente plana, destinada a adaptarse al labio inferior por su zona extrema y libre de manera que la salida de aire quede situada inmediatamente por encima de dicho labio. »

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