For day 33 I played a traditional Taiwanese tune on dizi, which is a Chinese style flute. My 60 Day Challenge is to film myself making music for 60 consecutive days.
For this video, I decided I would demonstrate how the Chinese flute called a dizi creates it's characteristic sound. I'm still not great at attaching the dimo, as it's called. It's actually a thin shaving of bamboo that vibrates when the flute is played. From my observations of other YouTube videos, it seems as though the "buzzy" timbre should be a little more prevalent and consistent.
The flute actually sounds quite nice if you just cover the extra hole, called the "mo kong," with tape. I've found that electrical tape works quite nicely!
EQUIPMENT USED:
Dizi Neumann TLM 102 Microphone Sonar X2 Producer Adobe Premiere Elements iPhone 5s (with a Glif tripod mount) Neewer CN-160 LED Video Light
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Through further research, I'm realizing that I'm supposed to leave more wrinkles in the dimo, whereas I tend to make it too flat and taut. I think it's probably a hard balance to strike because it can't be too loose either. Here's a link to a great tutorial made by the company I purchased the flute from — http://www.carrotmusic.org/e-bay_html/di3.html
