Redwood Flute
A beautiful handmade Redwood Flute with a light airy tone.
BySpencer Oliphant
The story
This instrument is built using samples from a handmade flute built by my father. The flute is made out of California Redwood. The flutes “bird” is made in the shape of a yellow slug in a nod to the Banana Slugs that live in the Redwood forests and can often be found on the trees.
The flute produces a light airy tone. This sounds great as a monophonic instrument but can start to produce an organ-like quality when chords are played (especially when some reverb is added in). The natural tuning of the flue is not equal-tempered so samples were tuned to an equal-tempered scale. There are two round robins and two dynamic levels for variety and realism. The flute was recorded with a close mic as well as a room mic. You can use one or the other or blend between the two depending on the level of proximity you want.
I hope you enjoy!
Interface
Reviews
Awesome instrument!
Thank you so much for bringing a woodwind to decent sampler, there aren't many high quality ones like this one. But I would have preferred maybe more control over this flute , an adsr for example but still I love those instruments and for me this one is 5 out of 5.
Really nice wind instrument!
I really like the tone of the Redwood Flute. The round robins and choice of microphones really makes this instrument shine. A simple but very useful sound that I'm sure many composers here would enjoy.
Great Flute Sound, very relaxing!
I had so much fun, playing around with this instrument, added lots of reverb! I couldn't let go of the keyboard, sitting there for hours :-), creating an ambient relaxing space - Soulhealing. Thanx, so much for this instrument!