Paper nose flute template by Susumu Yasuda

Mr. Susumu Yasuda (安田晋さん) is the owner of the workshop and shop Forest and Sea Nature workshop Linlinan ('森と海の自然工房 梨梨庵') located at Okinawa, notably producing and selling nose flutes.

Susumu-san designed and published a great template for making a heart-shaped cardboard nose flute, and gently authorized us to post it here. You can download the PDF file here for printing the Kamihanabue ('Paper nose flute').

With one printed sheet, you can build 5 nose flutes. The model is really simple to build. The tools needed are a cutter, some glue, plus something sharp but not cutting, used to mark the lines that have to be folded. There are two parts: the top and the bottom.

1.- First, you obviously need to cut the pieces:



2.- Then, mark and fold the bottom part following the mediant line:



3.- This is the most tricky part, yet very easy: you have now to mark the lines, and 'valley fold' (concave folding) what will become the nose rest, then the little top of it:



4.- finally, mark and fold the top part:



5.- Both parts are ready to be glued together, and that's it!



Here is the nice paper nose flute you obtain. The cool innovation and great feature is the little origami that creates a real nose saddle.

I made the five ones, and sprayed them with paint, not only for aesthetics, but also to get the flutes more rigid and waterproof.

Now, let's take a look at the details. It's a very nice flute, yet very simple. But as already said, there is a suoer-cool little nose saddle, very efficient. The flute provides a good sound, but certainly a bit weak, as on any paper flute.

Et voila! Oh... yes, the sound...





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Check here for the version #2 Mr. Yasuda made later!

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