The Idea

of building a special duct flute (with the patented Educci-scale) came with the preparation for the audition of Disneys „The Lion King“. The flutist job in the orchestra is extensively to be filled with ethnic flutes,so you have to acquire lots of different instruments.

That way i soon started „rebuilding“ various instruments i needed. Especially the sound of the southamerican Quena „caught my ear“, so i thought about how to set the holes so i could play Jazz/Blues phrases.

Since I am a „Doubler“ playing all woodwinds my Educci was to contain all the vantages nown to me for my specific, musical needs.

The size and allignment of the Educci-holes therefor is not geared to the holes of the south american Quena.

It's important to me to be able to play quick tone sequences with C,C sharp and D on the instrument. The „Dominat Beebop Scale“ and the „Bluesscale“ require this quick to grasp tone sequence. The holes also needed to be bigger for me to modulate the Bluesnotes with my Middelfinger. The octave of the keynote is overblown as you do with whistles,saxes and traverse flutes, different to the Quenas where you have to take all the fingers off the holes wich makes the flute unstabile and therefor hard to play without it falling to the ground.

In the end I have now a duct flute which has a voluminous and soft sound but also can be played extroverted and leaves lots of space to modulate the sound. The good handling of this instrument needs some practise but the first notes,scales and simple songs are easy to learn for everyone.

I have built instruments (Educci-Quena & Educci Quenacho) for the sophisticated soloist, but with the mellow sound the flutes can also be played in ensemble or other instrument combinastions.

Educci classes will be very protctive for the teachers ear and sound wonderfully homogeniously.

 

Production

The first Instruments were handmade,as soon as i found they were good for serial production i handed the production over to a company with highly modern, expensive CNC machines which are exact to the range of hundredth, so you'll always have the same intonation, without having to revoice by hand.