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Does anyone know about the PVC pipe comment? Is there some common knowledge about how to DIY build bass flutes?

I don't know much about the flute world, but there's a guy on youtube who's been extending his contrabassoon's range to absurd new lows for years now. Here he is seven years back:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8nRRwTnSbM

In the ensuing years he's been manufacturing a proper subcontrabassoon and here's a more recent video of its progress:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWQADWh3D8s

Haven't watched yet, but there seems to be a whole world of PVC contrabass flutes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RK_CJeAavpA

Holy crap! That's Dave Benham[0] who has answered metric buttloads of questions on Stack Overflow re: CMD.EXE. If there's anybody who knows about arcane and idiosyncratic behavior in CMD.EXE it's him!

He wrote a really fun snake implementation in batch, too[1].

[0] https://stackoverflow.com/users/1012053/dbenham [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EZeDoZjnsc

Wow, what a cool set of obsessions! I love that he used his own flute improv as the soundtrack to his batch snake video.

Overtone flute tutorials are very common and easy to make. There are a lot of traditional cultures that used contrabass woodwinds as the foundation for overtone instruments.

https://youtu.be/-dB8DDjCU14

This guy's channel is great!

I was going to suggest the Blue Man Group, but then remembered they are percussive instruments.

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