Jan
Hendrickse
List of Instruments
"wind instruments, like the flute and the algosa, express the heart quality, for they are played with the breath, which is the very life. Therefore they kindle the heart's fire" Hazrat Inayat Khan
Transverse flutes
Bansuri; Indian flute available in all keys, lowest instrument from G/A below middle C, highest up to orchestral piccolo register.
Dizi; Chinese flutes with or without reed buzzer. Lowest instrument D above middle C, most keys available.
Xiao; Chinese end blown flute
Taegum – large Korean flute
Sarewa; West African flute with ney-like sound. Several sizes. Limited scale possibilities, but very unique sonority. Combines with singing and circular breathing etc.
Various transverse flutes; including free reed flutes (like Chinese Bawu, and jade flute)
Irish/Celtic flute. (D)
Metal concert flute, and wooden concert flutes, Bamboo head for metal concert flute.
Bass flute.
Piccolo
Baroque flute A-440
Oblique flutes
Neys; Arabic and Turkish neys. Most keys possible.
Persian ney; Distinctive breathy sound, strong in low register. From G below middle C.
Kavals; Turkish and Bulgarian, (chromatic possibilities.)
Qawala; Egyptian ney-type
Ney type instruments, Gasba, various hybridised neys made by me in different keys.
Very low ney tubes for bass flute register.
Fipple flutes
Irish whistles
Irish Low whistle D/Eb
Various fipple flutes; Rumania, Asia
Native American flutes (pentatonic)
Double reeds
Zurna; Turkey, Macedonia, Armenia, various sizes
Nathaswaran; Large North Indian Shawm, two sizes.
Spanish Shawm in G
Suona; Chinese double reeds.
Duduk; Armenia, various keys.
Single reed
Arghoul; double pipe (melody/drone) in D
Various sizes of melody pipe and hornpipe. Can be made in most keys.
Horns
Didjeridu; various keys
Conch shell (high pitch)
Vaccines; low pitch resonant single note, can be made in most pitches.
Unusual percussion
Tanzanian Ilimba; Large, resonated thumb-piano, with buzzers and sympathetic keys. Bb (Pentatonic)
Tuned bamboo stopped tubes, set of 24 tuned, can be played in various pitch combinations.
I hope to be adding soundfiles of some of these instruments soon.
(N.B. This list is intended as a guide, and is not exhaustive. I am often making or acquiring new instruments.)
List of Instruments
"wind instruments, like the flute and the algosa, express the heart quality, for they are played with the breath, which is the very life. Therefore they kindle the heart's fire" Hazrat Inayat Khan
Transverse flutes
Bansuri; Indian flute available in all keys, lowest instrument from G/A below middle C, highest up to orchestral piccolo register.
Dizi; Chinese flutes with or without reed buzzer. Lowest instrument D above middle C, most keys available.
Xiao; Chinese end blown flute
Taegum – large Korean flute
Sarewa; West African flute with ney-like sound. Several sizes. Limited scale possibilities, but very unique sonority. Combines with singing and circular breathing etc.
Various transverse flutes; including free reed flutes (like Chinese Bawu, and jade flute)
Irish/Celtic flute. (D)
Metal concert flute, and wooden concert flutes, Bamboo head for metal concert flute.
Bass flute.
Piccolo
Baroque flute A-440
Oblique flutes
Neys; Arabic and Turkish neys. Most keys possible.
Persian ney; Distinctive breathy sound, strong in low register. From G below middle C.
Kavals; Turkish and Bulgarian, (chromatic possibilities.)
Qawala; Egyptian ney-type
Ney type instruments, Gasba, various hybridised neys made by me in different keys.
Very low ney tubes for bass flute register.
Fipple flutes
Irish whistles
Irish Low whistle D/Eb
Various fipple flutes; Rumania, Asia
Native American flutes (pentatonic)
Double reeds
Zurna; Turkey, Macedonia, Armenia, various sizes
Nathaswaran; Large North Indian Shawm, two sizes.
Spanish Shawm in G
Suona; Chinese double reeds.
Duduk; Armenia, various keys.
Single reed
Arghoul; double pipe (melody/drone) in D
Various sizes of melody pipe and hornpipe. Can be made in most keys.
Horns
Didjeridu; various keys
Conch shell (high pitch)
Vaccines; low pitch resonant single note, can be made in most pitches.
Unusual percussion
Tanzanian Ilimba; Large, resonated thumb-piano, with buzzers and sympathetic keys. Bb (Pentatonic)
Tuned bamboo stopped tubes, set of 24 tuned, can be played in various pitch combinations.
I hope to be adding soundfiles of some of these instruments soon.
(N.B. This list is intended as a guide, and is not exhaustive. I am often making or acquiring new instruments.)