I came for the witness stats, but stayed for the quena. I used to live in Austin Texas back in the 90s and traveled to Mexico a lot back then where I listened to a lot of Cumbia Andina and Andean music in general. I used to cut down bamboo from the back yard and make quenas for fun. Pretty cool to see someone into them on Hive!
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Quenas are really fun to play. I also make some small pan flutes out of bamboo but our bamboos are too thick to make Zampoñas so I just make the regular ones (Antara?)
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That's really awesome man. I never really attempted to make the pan flutes because I could never manage to play them very well, plus I never learned how to tie them together properly and tune them. I met a Peruvian guy in Mexico who taught me how to make a decent quena so that gave me a huge advantage. Pan flutes are awesome though and I'd love to make some. Unfortunately we don't have the abundant bamboo where I live in Los Angeles like I had in Texas and MX.
I'll definitely be checking out more of your music. Pretty awesome!
Yes, tying the pipes on a pan flute is a pita, mine are always a bit loose and tying them gives me finger soreness. Some people just glue them lol.
hehe I can imagine. Hey, if the glue works; why not!
By the way, here is a Spotify album of mine that features some homemade instruments. If you have an account there, please follow me or add some songs to your playlists 🥰
I am really digging "El Primer Vuelo del Cóndor" In my head I keep hearing it as a cumbia. I already hear the beat and the bassline.
Just realized that is the album not the song.. Doh! Gotta figure out what song I was just listening to.
Oh that's really cool! Listening now. Did you make the backing tracks as well?
All backing tracks are played by me and my friends. The ones with Roberto Moreno are all played with real instruments, the one with Bui Pham Thang was created with one of his sequencing keyboard and the ones with me alone are either created with real instruments or using a backing track creating software called Band-in-a-Box which uses samples from real instruments.