2025-08-10 –, Brachium
Language: English
Experimental archeology to understand the development of woodwind instruments. What I learned about woodwind instruments by using a spoon drill to make a bore and a whip lathe to reinvent medieval woodturning.
I will discuss cylindrical and conical bores, why they are different in a musical sense and why the technology of the times favours one over the other.
I will also link some peculiar instruments to the medieval education system of the guilds.
The famous leather archeologist Olaf Goubitz once said "You can only understand a historical shoe after you have made it".
After following a hobby course in instrument building and a year working as a medieval woodworker in the historical theme park Archeon, I wanted to go back to the roots and build instruments with the tools of the time.
I basically want to become a medieval instrument builder's apprentice, even tough all masters are gone for centuries. With this talk I want to share what I have learned so far.
I am a programmer on weekdays, and miller at a sawmill on Saturdays. I have worked in the historical theme park Archeon and I am a member of Revspace.