The 11-finger Xindi torture test

[Blue]

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This demonstrates the horrors of using ten fingers plus the side of one's hand to play the Xindi. (This has nothing to do with a certain Xindi getting tortured ;D )

[wenceslas]

Wow Cool!!!

[xindi]

How you manage to mention Xindi and torture in the sentence is beyond me. That was fascinating to see! An 11 hold chromatic dizi flute then?>

I didn't see you put on your Donald Duck finger webs



Note the rather unusual embouchure....

[Blue]

Here is donsiau's version of the xindi, made per request from someone in the Hong Kong Chinese orchestra



And here's a wooden version:



You can download clips here:
donsiau.net/bb/viewthread.php?tid=2295&extra=page%3D1

Regardless of vertical or transverse flutes, donsiau seems to always make a very nice haunting resonance. I'm going to ask him on facebook how many holes are involved here because I can't figure that out from the forum or from the pictures.

[Blue]

Donsiau responded on facebook that he can make either 7 finger or 11 finger xindi per request. (But you know that his flutes cost several hundred dollars).

[Blue]

Of course for maestro Donsiau, this torture test is a piece of cake: